Mr. Cukier is a global authority on technology and telecoms writing for The Economist. From May 2007, he has been based in Tokyo, having previously worked in London, Paris and Hong Kong before that, having reported from the five continents of the world. He focuses on the international politics of technology, intellectual property, Internet governance, the computer and software industries, wireless telecoms and telecom regulation. He has in all some 15 years of experience as a technology journalist having worked with The International Herald Tribune, Red Herring, The Asian Wall Street Journal and more recently The Economist since 2004.

Beyond writing at The Economist, Mr. Cukier regularly contributes widely to global infocomms media, appearing in the New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times, Foreign Affairs and others, and is a frequent commentator on CBS, CNN, CNBC, NPR, BBC, IHT, WSJ Europe, NPR Market Place. He has also worked on a book about the Internet and international relations at Harvard University. He has also had work published in Foreign Affairs, Prospect and the International Journal of Communication.

Mr. Cukier regularly delivers keynote speeches at various conferences around the world, with past examples being The World Communications Awards, (London), 3GSM World Congress (Barcelona), CEPT Conference (Berlin), Oxford Internet Institute conference (Oxford), The Entrepreneur’s Organization (Kuala Lumpur), The World Summit on the Information Society (New York), Economist Conferences’ Technology Industry Summit at CeBIT (Hanover), Economist Conferences’ Chief Financial Officers’ meeting (Kuala Lumpur), The World Economic Forum Asia Summit (Hong Kong), ITU Summit (Hong Kong), CAINET (Cairo), INET (San José), amongst many and also moderates discussion at privately arranged client meetings, including McKinsey & Company, IBM, Accenture and Eversheds.

Mr. Cukier was previously a Research Fellow at the National Center for Digital Government at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, Technology Editor of The Asian Wall Street Journal based in Hong Kong, European Editor of Red Herring and worked from 1992 to 1996 at The International Herald Tribune in Paris. He is a term-member at the Council on Foreign Relations and also serves on the board of advisors to the Daniel Pearl Foundation.