CISAC
Stanford University
Encina Hall, C242
Stanford, CA 94305-6165

jdowner@stanford.edu
(650) 724-5698 (voice)
(650) 724-5683 (fax)

Research Interests
The Constitution and Transferability of ‘Technological Ecosystems’

John Downer is a Stanton nuclear security postdoctoral fellow. He was previously a Zukerman fellow/postdoctoral fellow at CISAC for 2010-2011. He was educated at the universities of Edinburgh and Cambridge before receiving his doctorate from Cornell University, for a thesis entitled "The Burden of Proof: Regulating Ultra-High Reliability in Civil Aviation." Since graduating he has worked as a research officer at the London School of Economics (LSE) Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation (CARR), reworking his research for publication as a book about the theory and practice of auditing the risks of complex and potentially dangerous technologies.