Areas of Interest: National security and nonproliferation policy and decisionmaking, economic sanctions, the intersection of national security and information technology issues.
The Honorable Sue E. Eckert is a senior fellow at the Watson Institute, after having served as assistant secretary of export administration in the Clinton Administration. Her current research focuses on issues at the intersection of economic and national security – terrorist financing and money laundering, targeted sanctions, and critical infrastructure.
At the Watson Institute, she co-directs the projects on Terrorist Financing and Targeted Sanctions. Recent publications include: Countering the Financing of Terrorism (Routledge, 2007); Strengthening Targeted Sanctions Through Fair and Clear Procedures; “Lessons from the UN’s Counter-Terrorism Efforts;” “The Role of the Private Sector in the New Security Environment;” “Targeted Sanctions and State Capacity: Towards a Framework for National Level Implementation,” and “Consensus from the Bottom Up? Assessing the Influence of the Sanctions Reform Processes;” and Global Electronic Commerce: A Policy Primer.
She works extensively with United Nations bodies to enhance the instrument of targeted sanctions, having co-authored, Targeted Financial Sanctions: A Manual for Design and Implementation, participating in series of multilateral initiatives (the Interlaken, Bonn-Berlin, and Stockholm Processes), and organizing workshops and simulations for the Security Council.
She has served on numerous working groups and committees addressing security and technology issues, including the Resource Group advising the United Nations’ High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change established by Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the Club of Madrid’s International Summit on Democracy, Terrorism, and Security, and the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on the Science, Technology, and Health Aspects of the Foreign Policy Agenda of the United States.
From 1993 to 1997, she served as assistant secretary of commerce for export administration, responsible for US dual-use export control policy and defense industrial base programs. Previously, she served on the professional staff of the US House of Representative’s Committee on Foreign Affairs, where she oversaw technology transfer, international trade, and national security/nonproliferation issues.