J. P. SINGH

Dr. J. P. Singh teaches and researches global governance, international trade and negotiations, international development, qualitative research methods, and international cultural policies.

He is the author of Negotiation and the Global Information Economy (Cambridge 2008), Leapfrogging Development? The Political Economy of Telecommunications Restructuring (1999), and co-editor of Information Technologies and Global Politics (with James N. Rosenau, 2002). His current book projects are: The Arts of Globalization (Columbia, 2010); United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization: Creating Norms in a Complex World (Routledge, 2010); International Cultural Policies and Power (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). He has also authored over three-dozen scholarly articles. 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. Refereed article publications include those in Information, Communication & Society; International Studies Perspectives; Information Technology and International Development; Journal of International Communication; Telecommunications Policy; Info; International Negotiation; Prometheus; Handbook of International and Intercultural Communication; Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications, and several edited collections.

Dr. Singh has held several appointments related to his research interests. He is on the UNESCO Taskforce for Cultural Statistics and the Expert Group on the Measurement of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions. He was the Editor-in-Chief for Review of Policy Research, an official journal of the Policy Studies Organization, published by Wiley-Blackwell from 2006-09. He is also a political consultant for Voice of America’s Hindi broadcasts and appears frequently on their radio and television shows. He was a Visiting Scholar at the World Trade Organization in Geneva in 2004 and a Visiting Fellow at the New America Foundation (2002-04) in Washington, DC.

Grants and fellowships include those from the Social Science Research Council, World Bank, World Trade Organization, Ford Foundation, White House, and The Asia Society. He was one of the lead people involved in the World Bank-CCT e-commerce development project “Cottage Industry Global Marketplace” implemented in Himachal Pradesh, India, from 2000 to 2003.

His consultancies include the following:
International Organizations: World Trade Organization; The World Bank; UNESCO.
Media Organizations: BBC Trust, Voice of America.