•    Internet and national security

•    NATO and Global Cyber Defense

Rex Hughes is a visiting fellow for cyber security at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge and at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto. His current research examines the Internet and national security. As a member of the Cambridge-MIT Institute from 2005-2008 he advised affiliate companies including BT, Fujitsu, Nokia, and T-Mobile on disruptive technology roadmaps while completing his doctorate on The British Response to Global Telecommunications Convergence, 1997-2007. A cyber defence advisor to NATO since 2008, Hughes authored the joint Chatham House-German Marshall study ‘NATO and Global Cyber Defense' and is lead author on the NATO sponsored ‘Final Advisory Report on Cyber Defence and the 2010 Strategic Concept’. In 2009, he was invited by the NATO Parliamentary Assembly to present policy recommendations to the DEF-SEC Committee. With Paul Cornish and David Livingstone he co-authored the Chatham House report ‘Cyberspace and the National Security of the UK’ (2009). His cyber governance and security analyses have appeared in The World Today, the monthly publication of Chatham House where he also served as an associate fellow 2009-2010. In his International Affairs (March 2010) article ‘A Treaty for Cyberspace’ Hughes considers international conventions for cyber arms control. In 1999 whilst a student at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington, he founded the first university based Internet studies programme, UW Center for Internet Studies. There in partnership with IBM and Lotus, Hughes led the development of iEnvoy™, the first secure Internet communications platform for diplomats. From 1999-2002, iEnvoy was successfully deployed in 21 APEC and ASEAN countries through US Department of State sponsorship. In 2000 his Center’s contribution to the Internet development strategy of the Dominican Republic was publicly recognised by the country’s President Leonel Fernández. Hughes established three noteworthy forerunners to the dot com (.com) boom--the International Internet Law Symposium, The Internet Way of Business Conference, and the Internet Political Economy Forum; all of which earned C-level sponsorship from Fortune 100 firms including Microsoft, IBM, Lotus, GE, Boeing, Forbes, and Starbucks.