{{short description|American cybersecurity expert}} {{Infobox person | name = Adam Segal | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1968|9|29}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | other_names = | known_for = | education = | alma_mater = Cornell University<br/>Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy | employer = | occupation = Cybersecurity expert | title = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | political_party = | boards = | spouse = | children = 2 | parents = | relatives = }} '''Adam Segal''' (born September 29, 1968) is an American cybersecurity expert. He serves as the Ira A. Lipman Chair in Emerging Technologies and National Security and Director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is the author of three monographs on technology.
==Early life== Adam Segal was born on September 29, 1968,<ref>{{cite book |title=Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors |date=2017 |publisher=Gale |isbn=9780787639952 |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/H1000203690/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=0d7291aa |access-date=6 October 2022 |format=Collection |chapter=Adam Segal }}</ref> attended Memphis University School, and graduated from Cornell University with a bachelor's degree in Government.<ref name="counciladamsegal">{{cite web|title=Adam Segal|url=http://www.cfr.org/experts/china-innovation-cybersecurity-digital-cyber/adam-segal/b8863|website=Council on Foreign Relations|accessdate=August 15, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160821162331/http://www.cfr.org/experts/china-innovation-cybersecurity-digital-cyber/adam-segal/b8863|archive-date=August 21, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> He received a master's degree from Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.<ref name="counciladamsegal"/> He returned to Cornell University, where he received a PhD in Government.<ref name="counciladamsegal"/>
==Career== Segal is a cybersecurity expert, as well as an expert on Chinese technology policy. He served as the Ira A. Lipman Chair in Emerging Technologies and National Security and Director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program at the Council on Foreign Relations.<ref name="counciladamsegal"/> Before working at the Council, he was a China analyst at the Union of Concerned Scientists. He has been a visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution, MIT's Center for International Studies, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, and Tsinghua University.
Segal is the author of three books. His first book, ''Digital Dragon: High-Technology Enterprises in China'', was reviewed in ''Pacific Affairs'' by Eric Thun,<ref name="pacificreview">{{cite journal|last1=Thun|first1=Eric|title=Reviewed Work: Digital Dragon: High-Technology Enterprises in China by Adam Segal|journal=Pacific Affairs|date=Spring 2004|volume=77|issue=1|pages=105–106|jstor=40022283}}</ref> ''The China Quarterly'' by Cong Cao,<ref name="caoreviewed">{{cite journal|last1=Cao|first1=Cong|title=Reviewed Work: Digital Dragon: High-Technology Enterprises in China by Adam Segal|journal=The China Quarterly|date=June 2003|volume=174|pages=538–539|jstor=20059018|doi=10.1017/s0009443903320315}}</ref> ''Leonardo'' by Stefaan Van Ryssen,<ref name="leonardoreview">{{cite journal|last1=Van Ryssen|first1=Stefaan|title=Reviewed Work: Digital Dragon, High-Technology Enterprises in China by Adam Segal|journal=Leonardo|date=2004|volume=37|issue=3|page=255|jstor=1577738|doi=10.1162/leon.2004.37.3.255}}</ref> ''Perspectives on Politics'' by Thomas G. Moore,<ref name="moorereviewedperspectives">{{cite journal|last1=Moore|first1=Thomas G.|title=Reviewed Works: Between Politics and Markets: Firms, Competition, and Institutional Change in Post-Mao China by Yi-min Lin; Digital Dragon: High Technology Enterprises in China by Adam Segal|journal=Perspectives on Politics|date=March 2004|volume=2|issue=1|pages=178–180|jstor=3688406|doi=10.1017/S1537592704800690}}</ref> ''The China Review'' by Mark Jacobs,<ref name="chinareviewjacobs">{{cite journal|last1=Jacobs|first1=Mark|title=Reviewed Work: Digital Dragon: High-Technology Enterprises in China, A Council on Foreign Relations Book Series by Adam Segal|journal=The China Review|date=Fall 2004|volume=4|issue=2|pages=205–207|jstor=23461893}}</ref> ''The China Journal'' by Bennis Wai-yip So.<ref name="waiyipreview">{{cite journal|last1=Wai-yip So|first1=Bennis|title=Reviewed Work: Digital Dragon: High-Technology Enterprises in China by Adam Segal|journal=The China Journal|date=January 2004|volume=51|pages=167–169|doi=10.2307/3182164|jstor=3182164}}</ref> ''Foreign Affairs'' by Lucian Pye,<ref name="pyereviewchina">{{cite journal |last1=Pye |first1=Lucian W. |date=November 2003 |title=Reviewed Works: China's Techno-Warriors: National Security and Strategic Competition from the Nuclear to the Information Age by Evan A. Feigenbaum; Digital Dragon: High Technology Enterprises in China by Adam Segal |journal=Foreign Affairs |volume=82 |issue=6 |pages=171–172 |doi=10.2307/20033807 |jstor=20033807}}</ref> and ''Perspectives Chinoises'' by Gilles Guiheux.<ref name="gillesreview">{{cite journal|last1=Guiheux|first1=Gilles|title=Reviewed Works: Digital Dragon. High-Technology Enterprises in China by Adam Segal; Back-Alley Banking, Private entrepreneurs in China by Kellee S. Tsai|journal=Perspectives Chinoises|date=May 2003|volume=77|pages=82–84|jstor=24071286}}</ref> His second book, ''Advantage: How American Innovation Can Overcome the Asian Challenge'', was reviewed in the ''Journal of International Affairs'' by Christopher Reim and ''Foreign Affairs'' by Andrew Nathan.<ref name="reimreview">{{cite journal|last1=Reim|first1=Christopher|title=Reviewed Work: Advantage: How American Innovation Can Overcome the Asian Challenge by Adam Segal|journal=Journal of International Affairs|date=Fall 2010|volume=64|issue=1|pages=229–230|jstor=24385198}}</ref><ref name="nathanforeignreview">{{cite journal|last1=Nathan|first1=Andrew J.|title=Reviewed Work: Advantage: How American Innovation Can Overcome the Asian Challenge by ADAM SEGAL|journal=Foreign Affairs|date=May 2011|volume=90|issue=3|page=167|jstor=23039456}}</ref> His third book, ''Hacked World Order'' was reviewed by Gary Schmitt in ''The Wall Street Journal'' <ref name="wsjwagingwar">{{cite news|last1=Schmitt|first1=Gary|title=Waging War in Zeros and Ones|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/waging-war-in-zeros-and-ones-1456447150|accessdate=August 16, 2016|work=The Wall Street Journal|date=February 25, 2016}}</ref> and in Lawfare by Henry Farrel.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/here-be-dragons|title=Here Be Dragons|access-date=2016-09-23}}</ref>
==Works== *{{cite book|last1=Segal|first1=Adam|title=Digital Dragon: High-Technology Enterprises in China|url=https://archive.org/details/digitaldragonhig00sega_0|url-access=registration|date=2003|publisher=Cornell University Press|location=Ithaca, New York|isbn=9780801459290|oclc=726824240}} *{{cite book|last1=Segal|first1=Adam|title=Advantage: How American Innovation Can Overcome the Asian Challenge|date=2011|publisher=W.W. Norton|location=New York|isbn=9780393068788|oclc=601104797}} *{{cite book|last1=Segal|first1=Adam|title=The Hacked World Order: How Nations Fight, Trade, Maneuver, and Manipulate in the Digital Age|date=2016|publisher=Public Affairs|location=New York|isbn=9781610394154|oclc=925426214}}
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==External links== *{{C-SPAN|71113}}
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