J. P. SINGH

Dr. J. P. Singh is Associate Professor at the graduate program in Communication, Culture and Technology at Georgetown University. He specializes in global governance and development, specifically exploring issues of information technologies, service industries, global deliberations and diplomacy, and cultural identity.

Two broad questions inform his intellectual journey: how do various types of cultural understandings shape global governance and economic development, and what agency do they offer the weak and the marginalized to shape their circumstances?

J.P. Singh’s books analyze the evolution of economic rules (property rights) at the global level, transformational understandings of technology and diplomacy, and the formation of cultural identity in highly interactive circumstances. His books are: Globalized Arts: The Entertainment Economy and Cultural Identity (Columbia 2011), United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization: Creating Norms in a Complex World (Routledge, 2011), International Cultural Policies and Power (edited book, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), Negotiation and the Global Information Economy (Cambridge 2008), Information Technologies and Global Politics (edited with James N. Rosenau, 2002), and Leapfrogging Development? The Political Economy of Telecommunications Restructuring (1999).

He has authored over 50 scholarly articles, which explore specific themes related to his research interests. These include the impact of information technologies on global security, the political economy of trade policy and the evolution of national interests, development project implementation, Thai sex trafficking, and the life of the educator Paulo Freire.

He has been a visiting scholar at the World Trade Organization in Geneva and at the New America Foundation in Washington, DC. He was Editor of the Wiley-Blackwell journal Review of Policy Research, the politics and policy of science and technology, from 2006-09. He was Co-Principal Investigator for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders: A People Looking Forward, a 300-page report submitted to the U.S. President in 2001.

Apart from a passion for scholarship, fun moments of his life also include cycling the length of India in high school, editing India’s only magazine for its clothing industry in Mumbai from 1982 to 1984, being named “Mr. USC” 1989-90, traveling around the world with his partner, writing fiction, climbing mountains, and an enduring love of opera.