J.P. Auffret is director, Center for Assurance Research and Engineering in the College of Engineering and Computing, co-director, Center of Excellence in Government Cybersecurity Risk Management and Resilience and director, Research Partnerships in the Costello School of Business at George Mason University, USA. Auffret is also co-founder and current president of the International Academy of CIO (IAC), an NGO headquartered in Tokyo.
Auffret’s work and research span a range of applied technology fields including CIO and ICT governance; cybersecurity; and innovation and application of emerging technologies and with APEC, U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of State, World Bank, ITU and IBM. His experience includes executive positions with MCI and its joint venture with British Telecom, Concert and academic positions with George Mason, Duke University’s Center for International Development, Georgetown University Biomedical Graduate Education, UNU-eGOV (United Nations University Operating Unit on Policy-Driven Electronic Governance) and as physicist-in-residence at American University. Auffret earned a B.S. from Duke University where he was an A.B. Duke Scholar, M.B.A. from the University of Virginia and Ph.D. in Physics from American University.
Auffret’s work and research span a range of applied technology fields including CIO and ICT governance; cybersecurity; and innovation and application of emerging technologies and with APEC, U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of State, World Bank, ITU and IBM. His experience includes executive positions with MCI and its joint venture with British Telecom, Concert and academic positions with George Mason, Duke University’s Center for International Development, Georgetown University Biomedical Graduate Education, UNU-eGOV (United Nations University Operating Unit on Policy-Driven Electronic Governance) and as physicist-in-residence at American University. Auffret earned a B.S. from Duke University where he was an A.B. Duke Scholar, M.B.A. from the University of Virginia and Ph.D. in Physics from American University.