Steve Weber is the Faculty Director for the Berkeley Center for Long Term Cybersecurity (CLTC). He works at the intersection of technology markets, intellectual property regimes and international politics. His research, teaching and advisory work focus on the political economy of knowledge-intensive industries, with special attention to health care, information technology, software and global political economy issues relating to competitiveness. Weber went to medical school then did his Ph.D. in political science, both at Stanford. He served as special consultant to the president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and was Director of the Institute of International Studies at UC Berkeley from 2003 to 2009. His books include The Success of Open Source.