Primary Job Title Professor Primary Organization University of California Berkeley
Location San Francisco, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Steve Weber’s research, teaching, and advisory work focus on the political economy of knowledge intensive industries, with special attention to information technology, finance, health care, and global political economy issues relating to competitiveness. He is also a frequent contributor to scholarly and public debates on international relations
and US foreign policy. One of the world’s most expert practitioners of scenario planning, Weber has worked with more than 50 companies and organizations to develop this discipline as a strategy planning tool in for-profit, non-profit, and government organizations. Trained as a physician and a political scientist at Stanford during the 1980s, Steve joined the Berkeley faculty in 1990. He served as special political advisor to the first president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and has held academic fellowships with the Council on Foreign Relations and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and was Director of the Institute of International Studies at UC Berkeley from 2003 to 2009. He is the founder (2015) and faculty director of the Center for Long Term Cybersecurity at UC Berkeley, where he directs a large-scale multi-disciplinary research program on emerging cybersecurity issues at the intersection of new technologies, human behavior, and risk calculations made by firms and governments. For 20 years Weber has advised global companies, government agencies, and non-profit organizations around the world on risk analysis, strategy, business forecasting, and communications in the areas of international political risk, technology, and global economic change, in part through Monitor Group in San Francisco and The Glover Park Group in Washington DC. His best known book, The Success of Open Source, was one of the first extensive studies of how the open source software community works. Recent books include The End of Arrogance: America in the Global Competition of Ideas (with Bruce Jentleson) and Deviant Globalization: Black Market Economy in the 21st Century (with Jesse Goldhammer and Nils Gilman). He is currently writing Beyond the Globally Integrated Enterprise, a book that explains how economic geography is evolving and the consequences for multinational organizations in the post financial crisis world.
