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Ernest James Wilson III was appointed dean of the USC Annenberg School for Communication effective July 2007. He also holds the university’s Walter H. Annenberg Chair in Communication.
Previously a visiting professor at USC Annenberg and senior fellow at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy, Wilson has served on the faculties of the University of Maryland, University of Michigan and University of Pennsylvania. With academic expertise encompassing public policy, leadership, information, communications technology, international relations, African studies and comparative politics, he has conducted research examining the links between information infrastructure and society and worked on related projects for the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development, the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and others.
Wilson is also an expert on digital communication in developing countries and has written the books Negotiating the Net in Africa: The Politics of Internet Diffusion (co-edited with Kelvin R. Wong) and The Information Revolution and Developing Countries. He co-edits an MIT Press series titled Information Revolution and Global Politics as well as the MIT journal Information Technologies and International Development.
Wilson’s current scholarship focuses on the politics of global sustainable innovation in high-technology industries, on China-Africa relations and on the role of culture in U.S. national security policy.
Beyond academia, Wilson is the ranking senior member of the board of directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. He has held national-level positions with many other public and private agencies, including the White House, Council on Foreign Relations, World Bank, U.S. Information Agency, Global Information Infrastructure Commission and Congressional Black Caucus. In addition, he has taken leadership roles with the Internet Policy Institute, the National Research Council’s International Advisory Board and the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., among others. He has testified before the U.S. Congress regarding China and serves on advisory bodies for numerous organizations, including the Council on Foreign Relations, Center for Global Communication (Tokyo) and China International Cultural Exchange Center.
Wilson holds Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in political science from UC Berkeley and a B.A. degree from Harvard College.
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