Bruce W. McConnell is President of McConnell International and Government Futures.  Over the past 35 years he has started, served in, led, and shut down successful for-profit, nonprofit, and governmental organizations of all sizes. His vocation is to analyze, advise, and act in the markets created where business, government, technology, and social forces come together. He has cultivated a profound understanding of these forces’ interplay and their continual expression in global and local ideas and commerce.

Since 2000, McConnell International has provided accurate, unvarnished counsel to corporate senior management responsible for developing and executing market and sector strategy, wherever government is a factor. Government Futures was established in 2006 to help firms look further out in a increasingly volatile business environment.

From 1985-1999, McConnell served three U.S. Presidents as an actor and adviser on national information society issues. As chief of information and technology policy at the White House Office of Management and Budget, he led the government-industry team that reformed U.S. encryption export policy, created an information security strategy for government agencies, redirected government technology procurement and management along commercial lines, and extended the presumption of open government information onto the Internet. From 1999-2000, he established and led the International Y2K Cooperation Center, sponsored by the United Nations and the World Bank.

McConnell is a frequent speaker and writer, in English and French, on the future of global networks, e-government, cyber security, privacy, technology management, and network governance. He is on the CSIS Commission for Cyber Security for the 44th Presidency, and has served on boards at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Maryland’s Smith School of Business, and the American Council of Technology. He is on the board of the Gangaji Foundation.

He graduated from Stanford University’s School of Engineering with a major in Resource Strategy, and from the University of Washington in Public Administration. He is married to Margaret Anderson, sings tenor, and plays a fair game of tennis.