To compete and thrive in the 21st century, democracies, and the United States in particular, must develop new national security and economic strategies that address the geopolitics of information. In the 20th century, market capitalist democracies geared infrastructure, energy, trade, and even social policy to protect and advance that era’s key source of power—manufacturing. In this century, democracies must better account for information geopolitics across all dimensions of domestic policy and national strategy.
Biography
Steven Holtzman is the President and CEO of Decibel Therapeutics, a company devoted to discovering and developing therapeutics for hearing loss (2016-present). Previously he served as the Executive Vice President of Corporate Development at Biogen (2011-2016); the Founder, Chair, and CEO of Infinity Pharmaceuticals (2001-2010); the Chief Business Officer of Millennium Pharmaceuticals (1994-2001); and the Founder and President of DNX (1986-1994). He is a member of the Boards of Molecular Partners and the Berklee College of Music and a Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School. He was appointed by President Clinton and served as a member of the National Bioethics Commission (1996-2001) and served as a member and Vice Chair of the Board of the Hastings Center for the Life Sciences (1998-2009). He obtained his undergraduate degree in philosophy from Michigan State University and his graduate degree in philosophy from Oxford University which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar. He is a former Belfer Center non-resident senior fellow.
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