Arthur Nelson is acting co-director of the Technology and International Affairs Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He leads a team of scholars and practitioners to study and positively shape how new technologies affect global security, governance, and economics, and he oversees the program's research development, strategy, operations, and policy engagement.
Nelson works on issues of tech diplomacy, cyber policy, artificial intelligence, and other disruptive technologies. He is co-author of the International Strategy to Better Protect the Global Financial System Against Cyber Threats (Carnegie Endowment, 2020), a blueprint embraced by central banks and major financial institutions. Nelson also helped launch Carnegie's work on the digital dimensions of the Russia-Ukraine war, including a G7-endorsed crisis response network of 48 tech companies, governments, and NGOs working to strengthen Ukraine's information environment. He has led and participated in track II dialogues on technology policy issues with Germany, Australia, China, India, and others. His research has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, CNN and elsewhere. He is an Aspen Strategy Group Rising Leader.
Prior to joining Carnegie, Nelson was a researcher at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Before that, he worked on election security and cybersecurity policy at Elections Ontario, and international governance issues with the G20 Research Group and the Global Summitry Project. He graduated from the University of Toronto with a B.A. in political science.
From COVID-19 misinformation to authoritarian crackdowns on democratic protests or hybrid warfare involving information manipulation, the negative impacts that crises have on the information environment can be challenging to reverse, threatening the physical safety of civilians and the democratic stability of societies.
Kyiv sees Ukraine's reconstruction as an opportunity to turn the country into a European tech hub — to do that it needs help.
Without dedicated action, the global financial system will only become more vulnerable as innovation, competition, and the pandemic further fuel the digital revolution.
The world's governments and companies continue to struggle to contain the threat to financial stability because it remains unclear who is responsible for protecting the system.
A vision for how the international community could better protect the financial system against cyber threats.
The way societies adapt to the coronavirus pandemic in the long term could require governments to revisit their stances toward encryption.
Hackers are taking advantage of the coronavirus pandemic. An international coalition must be created—and soonest—to prevent nefarious actors from exacerbating the crisis.
The biggest challenge that democracies face against cyber threats is to develop effective responses without undermining the very values and principles they are designed to protect.
