James Andrew Lewis is a Senior Vice President and the Director of the Technology and Public Policy Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C. Before joining CSIS, he was a member of the U.S. Foreign Service and Senior Executive Service, where he worked on regional security, military intervention and insurgency, conventional arms negotiations, technology transfer (including global arms sales),[1] encryption,[2] internet security,[3] space remote sensing, high-tech trade with China,[4] sanctions and Internet policy.

His diplomatic experience included negotiations on military basing in Asia, the Cambodia peace process, and the Five-power talks on arms transfer restraint.

Lewis led the U.S. delegation to the Wassenaar Arrangement Experts Group for advanced civil and military technologies.

He was the department lead for the Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People's Republic of China.

Lewis has authored more than two hundred publications since coming to CSIS, [1] Archived 2011-08-06 at the Wayback Machine, on cybersecurity,[5] innovation, military space, and identity management.