Global Tech Security Commission Overview Mission Develop the definitive global tech security strategy to safeguard freedom through the adoption of trusted technology by designing a set of sector specific strategies as well as an integrated approach that democracies can adopt to counter techno-authoritarianism. Objective The core objective of the Commission is to assemble a network of global multi-sector leaders to create a global tech security strategy to safeguard freedom through the adoption of trusted technology. The Commission will publish a groundbreaking report that serves as the preeminent policy playbook for global tech security that rallies and unifies countries, companies, and civil society and results in a global trust network that safeguards freedom. The final Commission report will articulate a common strategic vision for the future of technology and its relationship to liberal democratic principles among like-minded states and actors. The report will offer concrete steps for democratic countries to collectively develop and promote technological advances that bolster democratic governance and individual rights, thereby outflanking rather than reacting to China’s future techno-authoritarian efforts. Goals 1. Design a set of sector specific strategies in 12 technology industry verticals and recommend a set of policy actions for the U.S. and like-minded nations to proactively counter threats posed authoritarian regimes. 2. Integrate a comprehensive set of industry strategies designed to advance global economic security by expanding technological collaboration between allies. 3. Build a unified global network of companies, institutions, industry leaders, and countries, committed to trust standards and principles. 4. Establish a meaningful set of trust standards to create a level playing field, and end abuse by authoritarian regimes. 5. Catalyze the widespread adoption of trusted technologies to advance freedom

1. Overview of Global Tech Security Commission
Mission
Develop the definitive global tech security strategy to safeguard freedom through the adoption
of trusted technology by designing a set of sector specific strategies as well as an integrated
approach that democracies can adopt to counter techno-authoritarianism.
Objective
The core objective of the Commission is to assemble a network of global multi-sector leaders to
create a global tech security strategy to safeguard freedom through the adoption of trusted
technology. The Commission will publish a groundbreaking report that serves as the preeminent
policy playbook for global tech security that rallies and unifies countries, companies, and civil
society and results in a global trust network that safeguards freedom.
The final Commission report will articulate a common strategic vision for the future of technology
and its relationship to liberal democratic principles among like-minded states and actors. The
report will offer concrete steps for democratic countries to collectively develop and promote
technological advances that bolster democratic governance and individual rights, thereby
outflanking rather than reacting to China’s future techno-authoritarian efforts.
Goals
1. Design a set of sector specific strategies in 12 technology industry verticals and recommend
a set of policy actions for the U.S. and like-minded nations to proactively counter threats
posed authoritarian regimes.
2. Integrate a comprehensive set of industry strategies designed to advance global economic
security by expanding technological collaboration between allies.
3. Build a unified global network of companies, institutions, industry leaders, and countries,
committed to trust standards and principles.
4. Establish a meaningful set of trust standards to create a level playing field, and end abuse
by authoritarian regimes.
5. Catalyze the widespread adoption of trusted technologies to advance freedom
Commission Structure
In addition to co-chairs and honorary co-chairs, the commission will include 12-15 international
commissioners. Commissioners will be selected based on their significant policy and technical
expertise and experience working in relevant industry verticals, either as a leader in the private
sector or as a former senior government official. Ideal commissioner candidates will have worked
in both government and industry over the course of their careers and will have the technical
expertise necessary to engage across more than one industry vertical.
The Commission will hold strategy sessions, roundtable discussions, and private meetings to
assess how governments and industries can better cooperate on critical and emerging technologies
to produce more resilient societies and to develop realistic solutions for countries and corporations
with significant economic reliance on China.

2. Partnership Synergy
The Commission will be able to draw from the Atlantic Council’s and the Krach Institute for Tech
Diplomacy at Purdue (KITD)’s extensive global network of policy practitioners, analysts, and
experts by fostering shared research and programming with the Commission, and further
deepening its bench of experts. The Commission and KITDP will share fellows and knowledge
with the view to collaborate on convenings, publications and dissemination of issue briefs, white
papers, and the final Commission report.
The Council will leverage its expertise on China, 14 other regional and functional centers, DC
network, and global and allied relationships. Similarly, KITDP will leverage its Tech Statecraft
expertise that integrates Silicon Valley strategies with foreign policy tools based on the “Trust
Principle and its experience building the Global Trust Network that focuses on rallying and uniting
allies and leveraging the innovation and resources of the private sector to drive the adoption of
trusted technology. Additionally, the commission draws on Purdue's strength in innovation and
deep expertise in technology as well as its proven nonpartisan model for tech diplomacy.
Distinctive Scope
Three factors will make the Commission Report uniquely strategic for countering China’s
authoritarian technological aspirations:
First, The Commission Report (CR) will analyze the security challenges posed by the PRC’s
long-term strategy and will provide specific policy recommendations tailored to at least 12 and
potentially 17 technology industry verticals. While other reports contain useful information and
analysis of some specific technologies, their scopes never allowed for the in-depth treatment of
each vertical as well as an integrated overarching strategy for countering tech authoritarianism.
Second, the scope of the Commission is global and will require more explicit analysis of, and
recommendations for, private firms as well as key US allies and partners as part of democracies’
common efforts to compete in emerging technologies. Other U.S. commissions have only focused
on providing recommendations to Congress means that its policy recommendations are inherently
limited to US legislative actions and do not include private sector actions or go into detail about
the role of allies in Europe and Asia.
Third, past commission reports primarily have offered a series of recommendations for mostly
defensive policies focused on slowing China’s unfair or illegal technological development efforts,
the Commission Report will provide a set of recommendations that more explicitly balances
between defensive policies and those policies meant to help the United States go on the offensive
to maintain its competitive technological edge in partnership with like-minded allies and partners.
Technology-Intensive Industries
1. Semiconductors
2. Advanced Telecommunications and internet-of-things (IoT)
3. Applied artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)
4. Cloud computing services
5. Autonomous and electronic vehicles
6. Biomedical engineering
7. Clean energy
8. Quantum and advanced computing
9. Advanced manufacturing and robotics
10. Electronic payments and digital currencies

3. 11. Cyber security
12. Space Technologies
Report Overview
The report’s final structure will be driven by the Commission’s findings on China’s ambitions
around critical technologies, current and potential future impact on democratic societies, and
conclusions regarding optimal strategies to develop and implement a trusted technology network
that protects liberal democracy. The report will include an executive summary, detailed graphics
and data visualizations, and an extensive roadmap of concrete, actionable policy
recommendations.
The report will pose a series of questions, including:
1. What are the essential features of today’s critical and emerging technologies that
impinge on the preservation of liberal democratic values, what are their anticipated
trajectories into the future, and how do China’s efforts to develop and dominate these
technologies challenge these values globally?
2. How is China seeking to undermine data privacy and security? To what extent are the
democracies (Australia, Britain, Canada, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, India,
Israel, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Taiwan, and the United States)
impacted by these efforts?
3. How is China’s ability to set standards and rules around emerging technologies
furthering digital authoritarianism globally and undermining the liberal values
underpinning the current international order?
4. How deep and in what specific areas is the disconnect between policymakers and
industry leaders on the key threats, needs, and opportunities? How can governments
better collaborate with private industry to offer solutions to the techno-authoritarian
challenge posed by China, and equally importantly, to help advance the democratic
world while protecting our values?
5. What do existing joint efforts between the United States and its allies look like in this
domain, and how can they be improved? How can developed democracies advance
future technologies that serve to bolster democratic governance and better protect
privacy and individual rights?
6. In what specific ways would a techno-democratic coalition benefit the citizens?
Global Tech Security Commission Co-Chair Keith Krach and Biden “Chief
Technology Protection Officer” Alan Estevez Deliver Briefing on Advancing
Freedom Through Trusted Tech
U.S. Commerce Department Backs Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy and Atlantic Council’s
Launch of the Global Tech Security Commission

4. Keith Krach, Chairman, Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue (left), and Under Secretary of Commerce Alan Estevez
discuss the importance of trusted technology during the launch of the Global Tech Security Commission on May 25, 2022.
(Photo: Business Wire)
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Atlantic Council and the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue
jointly hosted an exclusive briefing featuring U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security Alan
Estevez and Global Tech Security Commission co-chair and former Under Secretary of State Keith Krach. Under
Secretaries Estevez and Krach discussed the Global Tech Security Commission’s urgent mission of securing high
tech from the growing techno-authoritarian threats. The Commission also has the support of lawmakers and
private-sector leaders at a time when the United States is working to unite its Transatlantic and Indo-Pacific allies
and partners across a range of critical technology issues.
“It’s a great honor to be here with Alan as we launch the Global Technology Security Commission. It just seems like
a few weeks ago I was here with President Biden’s ‘Asia Czar’ Kurt Campbell. We were talking about building
alliances with the ‘Trust Principle.’ We appreciated his support for the Krach Institute and this Commission as well,”
said Keith Krach. The former CEO of DocuSign and Ariba continued: “China’s attempt to portray itself as a
misunderstood and well-intentioned global partner has failed. Companies doing business with China have endured
parasitic joint ventures, blatant thievery of intellectual property, a world-wide bullying spree, and the coerced
collection of proprietary technology. Corporate boards increasingly understand doing business with, in, or for China
represents tremendous risk and why many respected board members are demanding a China contingency
plan from their CEOs.”
“Any American company, and certainly any allied company as well, needs to be looking and assessing their risk
calculus based on what’s going on in the world today. …I've given a lot of thought to the need to protect our
technology from our adversaries who will use it against other nations and frankly, against us, as well as their own
people. I view my job at Commerce as the job to deny our adversaries access to those advanced technologies,” said
Under Secretary Estevez at his first public appearance in his current role. He concluded, “I am more than happy to
work with the Krach Institute and am all in on the Commission.”
TheCommission’s Global Tech Security Strategy is designed to complement recent multinational efforts to counter
authoritarianism, such as the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework and Future of the Internet Declaration, by building
a public-private coalition to promote democratic trust principles, digital trust standards and widespread adoption
of trusted technology emphasizing transparency, reciprocity, and adherence to international law.

5. Three factors make the Commission’s scope uniquely strategic for countering techno-authoritarian threats. First,
the Commission will focus on in-depth strategies in 17 critical tech sectors and integrate them into an overarching
Global Tech Security Strategy. Second, the scope will be global and private sector led, with commissioners from
international companies and institutions representing more than a dozen countries as part of democracies’
collective effort to compete in emerging technologies. Third, while previous commissions have primarily focused
on analysis of problems with recommendations limited to defensive policies, the Global Tech Security Commission
will integrate offensive and defensive strategies while beginning to build the Global Tech Trust Network, define
overarching Tech Trust Standards, and accelerate the adoption of trusted technology.
Krach also delivered a briefing on leveraging Tech Diplomacy to build trusted alliances with the Biden
Administration’s Coordinator for Indo-Pacific Affairs at the U.S. National Security Council, Kurt Campbell, where
Campbell pointed to the continuation of policies initiated by Krach’s team during his public service: “One of the
rarest things in government is continuity of programs because when a new government comes in, they think, ‘I've
got a better idea and I am going to do it differently.’ Almost all the work that Keith did at the State Department,
including trusted networks, the Blue Dot initiative, etc., have been followed on in [the Biden] Administration and,
in many respects, that's the highest tribute.”
The briefing culminated with powerful remarks from former President of Estonia and Global Tech Security
Commission Co-Chair Kersti Kaljulaid, who emphasized that all the technology that China and Russia have is
controlled by their governments. She said, “They overreach using their economic might to try to conquer the world.
They can subdue their own citizens, their own people, more efficiently and effectively, of course, using technology.
The Free World is now facing the test. We need to stick together. It may take time, but we will prevail. But of course,
we do not prevail all by ourselves. We will prevail because we cooperate. And for that we need Global Tech Security
Commission. So, thank you, Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy and Atlantic Council for this opportunity.”
The Krach-Estevez event continues the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue’s bipartisan approach
to Tech Diplomacy. In addition to ongoing engagement with both sides of the aisle on Capitol Hill, as well as with
the State and Commerce Departments, the Institute’s Chairman Keith Krach and Director Bonnie Glick were
invited by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo to offer advice on the national imperative of securing
the semiconductor supply chain.
Watch the full Krach-Estevez briefing here.
Atlantic Council and Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue
Launch Global Tech Security Commission
Keith Krach and former Estonian president Kersti Kaljulaid will lead nonpartisan commission of
international leaders to develop global tech security strategy to counter techno-authoritarianism

6. Keith Krach, Chairman, Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue (left), Kersti Kaljulaid, Former President of
Estonia, and Alan Estevez, Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security (Photo: Business Wire)
May 26, 2022
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Atlantic Council and Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue
announce the launch of the nonpartisan Global Tech Security Commission to safeguard freedom from technological
authoritarianism. The Commission is co-chaired by Keith Krach, chairman and co-founder of the Krach Institute for
Tech Diplomacy at Purdue and former US Under Secretary of State; and Kersti Kaljulaid, former president of
Estonia. It will develop a global tech security strategy designed to rally and unify like-minded countries, leverage
the innovation and resources ofthe private sector, and build a global network to develop, protect, and adopt trusted
technologies.
The Global Tech Security Commission unites an international network of multi-sector stakeholders and has the
support of lawmakers and private-sector leaders. It comes at a time when the United States is working to unite its
Transatlantic and Indo-Pacific allies and partners across a range of critical technology issues in the face of rising
authoritarianism around the world.
“The key to securing freedom for the next generation is securing technology. Tomorrow’s tech must be trusted tech
developed and protected by a Global Trust Network of like-minded countries, companies, and individuals who
respect the rule of law, human rights, labor practices, national sovereignty, and the environment,” said Keith Krach.
The former US Under Secretary of State and CEO of DocuSign and Ariba continued, “I am honored to be joined in
this critical mission by Kersti Kaljulaid, a widely respected transformational leader, and a distinguished group of
multinational, multi-sector visionaries.”
“We will win,” Kaljulaid said at the Commission’s May 25 announcement event, “But for us to safely mine the
technology pool created by the great minds of our private sector companies, we have to have standards,
agreements.” She concluded, “Nobody must be able to blow up what we trust in technology, and for that indeed
we need the Global Tech Security Commission.”
Three factors make the Commission’s scope uniquely strategic for countering techno-authoritarian threats. First,
the Commission will focus on in-depth strategies in 17 critical tech sectors and integrate them into an overarching
Global Tech Security Strategy. Second, the scope will be global and private-sector-led, with commissioners from
international companies and institutions representing more than a dozen countries as part of democracies’ joint
effort to compete in emerging technologies. Third, while previous commissions have primarily focused on analysis
of problems with recommendations limited to defensive policies, the Global Tech Security Commission will

7. integrate offensive and defense strategies while beginning to build the Global Tech Trust Network, define
overarching Tech Trust Standards, and accelerate the adoption of trusted technology.
“The Atlantic Council has for six decades rallied democratic allies and partners around the world, and our new era
of technological threats and opportunities calls for innovative approaches,” said Frederick Kempe, President, and
CEO of the Atlantic Council. “The Krach Institute’s new model of transformational tech diplomacy based on the
‘Trust Principle’ makes it the ideal partner for the Atlantic Council and the Global Tech Security Commission.”
The coordinator for the effort will be David Shullman, Atlantic Council Global China Hub senior director and former
Deputy National Intelligence Officer for East Asia.
The Global Tech Security Commission was formally announced at a public event on May 25—featuring a headline
fireside chat between Keith Krach and U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce Alan Estevez and a special appearance
from President Kaljulaid. Shullman, along with Bonnie Glick, Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue director
and former deputy administrator and chief operating officer of the US Agency for International Development,
offered remarks.
To keep up with the Commission’s latest developments, subscribe to the Global China Hub and Krach Institute for
Tech Diplomacy at Purdue, and visit GTSCommission.org.