Edward M. Roche, Ph.D.

Dr. Roche is the Director of Scientific Intelligence for the Institute. He has extensive industry experience including his management of the Conference Board’s Council of Telecommunications Executives, composed of Chief Telecommunications Officers. He served as the Chief Research Officer for the Gartner Group (Research Board), and Chief Scientist for The Concours Group where he helped develop a “fast cycle” research methodology. He is an expert advisor to the United Nations on issues of Information Technology, and has served on mission in Kenya. Dr. Roche wrote papers on telecommunications infrastructure policy in the Bay area under the auspices of the Instutite of Urban and Regional Development at the University of California at Berkeley, and for the Council on Foreign Relations special study on globalization and the city. He conducted IT policy related research for the Diebold Institute for Public Policy Studies in Japan, Korea, and Brazil. He is the author of several books including Telecommunications and Business Strategy, Managing Information Technology in Multinational Corporations, and Information Systems, Computer Crime, and Criminal Justice, and has edited seven others. In 2007 he published Corporate Spy: Economic Espionage and Counterintelligence in the Multinational Enterprise, a revealing look at corporate espionage on a global scale.

Dr. Roche received a doctorate from Columbia University in 1987 with a thesis directed by Alan F. Westin on transborder data flow in multinational enterprises, and holds a MA in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. where he focused on national security, strategic defence, and international law. Dr. Roche’s paper on Information Technology in Multinational Corporations was elected as the best paper published in the IT field in Europe in 1996. He is a member of the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.