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Jeffrey Hunker
Distinguished Service Professor of Technology and Public Policy
Distinguished Service Professor
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Email: jhunker@andrew.cmu.edu
Biography
Introduction
Jeffrey Hunker joined the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management in May 2001, after serving as the Senior Director for Critical Infrastructure with the Clinton Administration. He brings to the Heinz School expertise in many vital fields of policy and management, such as information technology (specifically information infrastructure security), the environment, corporate and public finance, heavy industry management, and international relations. He has extensive experience in the public sector and has been a significant presence in Washington D.C., New York, Boston and the Silicon Valley.
Background
Dr. Hunker attended Harvard University, having graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a bachelor's degree in engineering and applied physics in 1977, and earning his Ph.D. in 1981 in business administration with a focus on managerial economics.
He began his career in the private sector, as a consultant and case leader for The Boston Consulting Group in 1982-1987. Dr. Hunker specialized in Japanese corporations, markets and competitions, as well as reorganizing and restructuring manufacturing operations and marketing /distribution systems for industrial firms. In 1987, he went to Kidder Peabody and Co., Inc. in New York City, where he served as Vice President of Mergers and Acquisitions until 1993. He built relationships with numerous European and Japanese industrial firms; and created Kidder Peabody's Automotive Group in 1991.
In 1993, Dr. Hunker's career path ventured into the public sphere, when he became the Senior Policy Advisor to the Secretary of the Department of Commerce, with responsibility for emerging economic growth issues. In 1995, he worked with the White House to organize the Regional Economic Conferences of the President and Vice President.
In 1996, Dr. Hunker became the Deputy Assistant to the Commerce Secretary and Senior Commerce Department official for environmental policy. There he reorganized the department to integrate all environmental interests, and served as the senior US official representing business interests in climate change framework talks and in negotiating with China.
In 1998, Dr. Hunker became the founding director of the Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office (CIAO). CIAO is a unique, high-profile agency within the Commerce Department that was created to coordinate industry and government efforts to improve cyber-security. He established CIAO's strategy and missions as an independent and impartial coordinator of multiple competing federal and private sector interests. Dr. Hunker led CIAO to develop federal oversight, key policies, and new initiatives for cyber-security. He also assisted Congress in its cyber-security agenda, testifying before Members and working closely with them.
For his groundbreaking work in cyber-security, in 1999 Dr. Hunker was recruited by the National Security Council to become the Senior Director for Critical Infrastructure. He led White House planning and implementation of the first-ever national strategy for cyber-security. In January 2000, he produced the Presidential National Plan for Information Systems Protection, Version 1.0, which coordinated the efforts of 21 federal agencies and leading private sector companies in the high-tech, telecommunications, financial services, transportation, energy and defense sectors.
Dr. Hunker organized many Presidential summits, such as the Cyber-Security Summit (February 2000), Washington Summit on Corporate Governance and Critical Infrastructure (April 2000), the Washington Legal Summit on Emerging Legal Issues in Cyber-Security (June 2000). He was also instrumental in creating many important organizations and initiatives, including the Partnership for Critical Infrastructure Security, Expert Federal Cyber-Security Team, Federal Intrusion Detection Network, Federal Cyber-Service, Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection, and Industry Cyber-Security Centers.
Dr. Hunker has written a number of articles on cyber-security policy and technology as well as being the principle author of several government reports and journal articles. He wrote Structural Change in the U.S. Automotive Industry, published by D.C. Heath and Co. in 1982. He is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations and has been a member since 1991 of the Photography Council through the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
Education
Ph.D., Business Administration in Managerial Economics, Harvard Business School