Jan Kallberg, PhD


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The brief story

Jan Kallberg holds a PhD in Public Affairs at School of Economic, Political, and policy Sciences at University of Texas at Dallas. The title of the dissertation: “The Internet as a Proxy for Democratic Accountability and Transparency - A Comparative Test of Waldo’s Five problems Areas in Five Advanced Democracies”.  He also holds a J.D./LL.M. from Stockholm University and a M.A. in Political Science from University of Texas at Dallas.

His dissertation investigated the ability to use the Internet as a proxy to meet Dwight Waldo’s five key problem areas as stated in The Enterprise of Public Administration: legitimacy, authority, control, knowledge, and confidence.  

 

Kallberg's  master thesis from Stockholm University was focused on reputational risks of the internet and correctly forecasted the growth of mp3, peer-to-peer file sharing and the advent of phishing. It also correctly identified the growing importance of online reputation.

He served in the Swedish Army as a reserve officer and company commander for eight years. He joined the Swedish Armed Forces by the age of 17.  

  

Experiences

I had the opportunity to see the trans-formation of South Africa first hand during the last days of Apartheid.

I was in Israel during the heights of the 2002 Intifada that taught me how it is to live under constant threat of terrorism.

I travelled as a young man through the USSR, the Communist East Europe, when it was a running operation of corruption and suppression.

I predicted the mp3 revolution in 1997 during my time at Stockholm University.

In my LL.M. thesis I predicted the concept of phising - a phenomena that arrived seven years later.