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University of Chicago.
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His diplomatic experience included negotiations on military basing in Asia, the Cambodia peace process, and the five-power talks on arms transfer restraint. Lewis led the United States. delegation to the Wassenaar Arrangement Experts Group for advanced civil and military technologies. He was also assigned to the United States. Southern Command for Just Cause, the United States. Central Command for Desert Shield, and to the National Security Council and the United States. Central American Task Force for programs in Nicaragua.
In 2010 he served as Rapporteur for the United Nations Group of Government Experts on Information Security.
Lewis has authored more than eight publications since coming to Center for Strategic and International Studies ,, on cybersecurity, innovation, military space, and identity management. He was the Project Director for Center for Strategic and International Studies ’s Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th Presidency.
In 1984, Lewis earned a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Chicago.
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Before joining Center for Strategic and International Studies , he was a member of the United States. Foreign Service and Senior Executive Service, where he worked on regional security, military intervention and insurgency, conventional arms negotiations, technology transfer (including global arms sales), encryption, internet security, space remote sensing, high-tech trade with China, sanctions and Internet policy.
