Biographies

Robert Hahn is the cofounder and executive director of the American Enterprise Institute-Brookings Joint Center, which focuses on regulation and antitrust. Previously, he worked for the Council of Economic Advisers. He also has served on the faculties of Harvard University and Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Hahn frequently contributes to general-interest periodicals and leading scholarly journals, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, American Economic Review, Yale Law Journal and Science. Recently, he authored Reviving Regulatory Reform: A Global Perspective and edited High-Stakes Antitrust. This year he will publish an AEI-Brookings book on the economic analysis of regulation and an edited volume on intellectual property rights in high-technology industries. In addition, Dr. Hahn is cofounder of the Community Preparatory School––an inner-city middle school in Providence, Rhode Island, that provides opportunities for disadvantaged youth to achieve their full potential.

Mark Lemley is a professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, and is a co-director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology. He teaches intellectual property, computer law, patent law, antitrust, and the law of electronic commerce. He is also of counsel to the law firm of Keker & Van Nest, where he litigates and counsels clients in the areas of antitrust, intellectual property and computer law. He is the author of six books and 51 articles on these and related subjects, including the two-volume treatise IP and Antitrust Law. In 2002 he was chosen Boalt's Young Alumnus of the Year. After graduating from law school, he clerked for Judge Dorothy Nelson on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. He has also practiced law in Silicon Valley with Brown & Bain and with Fish & Richardson. Before joining the Boalt faculty in January 2000, he was the Marrs McLean Professor of Law at the University of Texas School of Law. In fall 2003 he was a visiting professor at Stanford Law School.

Jean Tirole is scientific director of the Institut d'Economie Industrielle, University of Social Sciences, Toulouse. He is also affiliated with CERAS, Paris and MIT, where he holds a visiting position. Before moving to Toulouse in 1991, he was professor of economics at MIT. In 1998, he was president of the Econometric Society, whose executive committee he has served on since 1993. He is president-elect of the European Economic Association. Jean Tirole received a Doctorate Honoris Causa from the Free University in Brussels in 1989, the Yrjö Jahnsson prize of the European Economic Association in 1993, and the Public Utility Research Center Distinguished Service Award (University of Florida) in 1997. He is a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1993) and of the American Economic Association (1993). He has also been a Sloan Fellow (1985) and a Guggenheim Fellow (1988). Jean Tirole has published over a hundred professional articles in economics and finance, as well as 6 books including The Theory of Industrial Organisation, Game Theory (with Drew Fudenberg), A Theory of Incentives in Procurement and Regulation (with Jean-Jacques Laffont), The Prudential Regulation of Banks (with Mathias Dewatripont), and Competition in Telecommunications (with Jean-Jacques Laffont). He is currently working on The Theory of Corporate Finance. His research covers industrial organisation, regulation, game theory, banking and finance, and macroeconomics. He received his PhD in economics from MIT in 1981, engineering degrees from Ecole Polytechnique, Paris (1976) and from Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris (1978) and a "Doctorat de 3ème cycle'' in decision mathematics from the University Paris IX (1978).