Mark Luker

Biography

Mark Luker is a Telecommunications Policy Specialist at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration and a member of the BTOP Team. Until recently he was Vice President of EDUCAUSE, an association of over 2,000 universities and colleges that promotes the transformation of higher education through innovative applications of information technology. He led the Washington DC-based EDUCAUSE policy program as well as Net@EDU, a "thought-leadership" coalition of university CIOs and state network directors who work to advance national networking for both research and education. Luker also has served as the Program Director for advanced networking at the National Science Foundation and the federal Next Generation Internet project. Before that he worked on organizational issues for information technology services as CIO at the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. In this role he was very active in several national projects including the National Learning Infrastructure Initiative and the Coalition for Networked Information. Luker received his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley, and served as a faculty member and acting dean at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, before moving into information technology management.

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EDUCAUSE Involvement

  • Network Policy Council
    • Staff Liaison: 2006 - 2009
  • Campus Cyberinfrastructure - Working Group
    • Staff Liaison: 2006 - 2009
  • CALEA Tech Expert Group
    • Staff Liaison: 2005 - 2009
  • BPG Members
    • Staff Liaison: 2005 - 2006
  • Broadband Policy Group
    • Staff Liaison: 1999 - 2002,2005 - 2009
  • CALEA
    • Staff Liaison: 2005
  • NPC Admin
    • Staff Liaison: 2005 - 2006
  • BPG Steering
    • Staff Liaison: 2005 - 2009
  • Security JB Book
    • Member: 2003 - 2005
  • NET '01 Program Committee
    • Member: 2001 - 2002
  • Northwest Collaboration Conference 2000 Program Committee
    • Staff Liaison: 2000 - 2001
  • Net@EDU Advisory Group
    • Staff Liaison: 2000 - 2009
  • Net '00 Program Committee
    • Member: 1999 - 2001
  • Evolving Technologies Committee
    • Staff Liaison: 1999 - 2009
  • Joint Conference Planning Group
    • Member: 1997 - 1999
  • New Organization Board
    • Member: 1997 - 1998
  • Educom Board
    • Member: 1994 - 1998
  • Nomination and Election Committee
    • Member: 1993 - 1995