G. Russell Pipe is an advisor and strategic planner for governments, international organizations and corporations as well as a publisher, author, and lecturer. He has served in diverse capacities in Europe, Asia and the United States over a 38-year period. Throughout his career he has specialized in personal information and telecommunications policy, regulation and trade. Since its founding in 1995 he has served as Deputy Director of the Global Information Infrastructure Commission (GIIC) and is presently devoting much of his attention to E-Commerce issues. His extensive consulting in Asia focuses on e-Commerce, e-Government, and trade policy. He is active in China, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Mr. Pipe was appointed as a member of the Dalian (China) Municipal Consultative Committee on E-Government, and participated in first meeting of the committee with municipal officials. He gave a presentation on "Designing Successful E-Government Structures and Applications" at the 2003 International Software and Information Service Fair, Dalian, China.

Mr. Pipe pioneered research and legislation on privacy, data protection, transborder data flows, and informatics 30 years ago. He was the consultant to OECD's Secretariat for Information, Computer and Communications Policy. He wrote the report on policies, prepared conferences, and drafted documents. The magazine he published from 1978-1994, Transnational Data and Communications Report (TDR), and the current magazine I-Ways Digest launched in 1995, are the recognized authoritative source of information on economic, trade and strategic developments in the telecommunications and information industries, presenting reports, news and opinion from many different countries and perspectives. I-Ways Digest began focusing on global information infrastructure issues, and since 1998 has focused on E-Commerce policy and regulation, with special attention given to the activities and policies of international organizations.

Mr. Pipe is now assisting countries in building and implementing e-commerce. Beginning with Telecommunications and Information Interdependent Economies (TIDE 2000) project he directed for Japan from 1987--a forerunner of Information Infrastructure and Superhighways--he has now created similar programs for China. He organized an International Forum on Electronic Commerce in 1996, which led to China's declaration on Advancing Global Electronic. A second Electronic Commerce Forum, focused on financial services launched the China E-Commerce Challenge Project. The 3rd China International E-Commerce Forum was organized in 2000. The Center for Information Infrastructure and Economic Development (CIIED) in Beijing, China, which Mr. Pipe assisted in founding and served as co-director, recently launched a project to promote opening of cable-TV, satellite services and wireless to Internet access and E-Commerce.

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