Arthur House

Lecturer

Department of Political Science

Arthur House is an adjunct professor in the Political Science Department of the University of Connecticut.

His background includes senior executive responsibilities in business, the U.S. Government and state government. Most recently, House served as Chief Cybersecurity Risk Officer for the State of Connecticut from October 2016 to October 2019 after four years as Chairman of Connecticut’s Public Utilities Regulatory Authority.

House was Director of Communications and Congressional Relations for the Director of National Intelligence and Chief of the Communications Group for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a combat support agency of the U.S. Department of Defense. He holds a top secret security clearance. As a White House Fellow he served as Special Projects Officer on the staff of the National Security Council.

He worked in Asia and Africa as an economist and loan officer for the World Bank, served on the Bank’s Policy, Planning and Program Review staff and qualified to represent the Bank as fluent in French.

In the private sector, House was Senior Vice President of Public Affairs at Webster Bank and held senior executive positions at Cigna, Aetna, and Tenneco. He was a member of Tenneco’s European Advisory Council. He is currently Lead Director of American Superconductor Corporation.

His career has also included three positions in the United States Senate: Chief of Staff to former Connecticut Senator Abraham Ribicoff, Chief of Staff to former Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd, and Legislative Assistant to Senator Chris Dodd. While working in the Senate his projects included the Camp David peace negotiations, the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT II), Panama Canal Treaty ratification and the Tokyo Round trade negotiations. He was a Congressional Adviser to the United States Mission to the United Nations.

House is a graduate of Tufts College and has a Ph.D degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He has published a book on the United Nations Civilian Operations in the Congo and several articles on international relations subjects. He was Assistant Dean and on the faculty of the Fletcher School and taught graduate courses at the University of Connecticut, Georgetown University and the National University of the Congo.

House has extensive live and print media experience, including work as a public member of the Hartford Courant editorial board.

House is married to Rita Jepsen. They live in Simsbury, Connecticut.