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Biographies David J. Farber is Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. Before joining academia, Professor Farber worked at Bell Laboratories for eleven years before moving to The Rand Corporation and then to Scientific Data Systems. In 2000, he was appointed to be Chief Technologist at the FCC for one year. Prior to his appointment to the FCC, Professor Farber served on the U.S. Presidential Advisory Board on Information Technology and currently is a Member of the FCC's Technological Advisory Council. This year he was appointed to the Advisory Council of the CISE Directorate of the National Science Foundation. Professor Farber received the 1995 Association for Computing Machinery Sigcomm Award for lifelong contributions to the computer communications field. He was awarded the prestigious John Scott Award for Contributions to Humanity. Professor Farber was also named by Business Week as one of the top 25 leaders in E-Commerce in 2002. Harold Furchtgott-Roth founded Furchtgott-Roth Economic Enterprises in 2003. From 2001 to 2003, Mr. Furchtgott-Roth was a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute where he completed A Tough Act to Follow, a book about the difficulties implementing the Telecommunications Act of 1996. From 1997 through 2001, Mr. Furchtgott-Roth served as a commissioner of the FCC. He is one of the few economists to have served as a federal regulatory commissioner, and the only one to have served on the FCC. Before his appointment to the FCC, he was chief economist for the House Committee on Commerce and a principal staff member on the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Earlier in his career, he was a senior economist with Economists Incorporated and a research analyst with the Center for Naval Analyses. He is the coauthor of three books: Cable TV: Regulation or Competition (with R.W. Crandall, The Brookings Institution, 1996); Economics of A Disaster: The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill (with B.M. Owen et al, Quorum Books, 1995); and International Trade in Computer Software (with S.E. Siwek, Quorum Books, 1993). Robert W. Hahn is co-founder and executive director of the American Enterprise Institute-Brookings Joint Center and a resident scholar at AEI. 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 leading scholarly journals and general-interest periodicals, including The American Economic Review, The Yale Law Journal, Science, and the New York Times. He is the author of Reviving Regulatory Reform: A Global Perspective (AEI-Brookings Joint Center, 2000) and In Defense of the Economic Analysis of Regulation (AEI-Brookings Joint Center, 2005). 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. Alfred Kahn is the Robert Julius Thorne Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus, at Cornell University and is a Special Consultant to NERA. He has been Chairman of the New York Public Service Commission, Chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, Advisor to the President (Carter) on Inflation, and Chairman of the Council on Wage and Price Stability. Dr. Kahn received his bachelor's degree and master's degree from New York University and earned his doctorate in economics from Yale University. Following service in the US Army, he served as Chairman of the Department of Economics at Ripon College in Wisconsin. During his tenure at Cornell, Dr. Kahn served as Chairman of the Department of Economics, member of the Board of Trustees of the University, and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Throughout his career, Dr. Kahn has served on a variety of public and private boards and commissions. Dr. Kahn's publications include Whom the Gods Would Destroy, or How Not to Deregulate (AEI-Brookings Joint Center, 2002), Letting Go: Deregulating the Process of Deregulation (Institute of Public Utilities and Network Industries, 1998), Great Britain in the World Economy (Ashgate Publishing, 1993), Fair Competition: The Law and Economics of Antitrust Policy (with Joel B. Dirlam, Greenwood Press, 1970), Integration and Competition in the Petroleum Industry (with Melvin G. de Chazeau, Yale University Press, 1959), and The Economics of Regulation (The MIT Press, 1988). He has written numerous articles, which have appeared in The American Economic Review, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, The Journal of Political Economy, Harvard Law Review, Yale Journal on Regulation, Yale Law Journal, and The Economist, among others. Lawrence Lessig is a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school's Center for Internet and Society. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, he was the Berkman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and a Professor at the University of Chicago. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court. Professor Lessig represented web site operator Eric Eldred in the ground-breaking case Eldred v. Ashcroft, a challenge to the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. He has won numerous awards, including the Free Software Foundation's Freedom Award, and was named one of Scientific American's Top 50 Visionaries, for arguing "against interpretations of copyright that could stifle innovation and discourse online." Professor Lessig is the author of Free Culture (The Penguin Press HC, 2004), The Future of Ideas (Vintage Books, 2001) and Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (Basic Books, 1999). He chairs the Creative Commons project, and serves on the board of the Free Software Foundation, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Public Library of Science, and Public Knowledge. Professor Lessig teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law, contracts, and the law of cyberspace. John Mayo is a professor at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. His research has appeared in numerous economics, law, and public policy journals, including the RAND Journal of Economics, the Journal of Law and Economics, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Industrial Economics, the Journal of Business, and the Journal of Regulatory Economics. He is coauthor of Government and Business: The Economics of Antitrust and Regulation (with David L. Kaserman, Dryden Press, 1995). Before his appointment at Georgetown University, Mr. Mayo taught at several universities, including Washington University, the University of Tennessee, and Virginia Tech. He has served as chief economist for the U.S. Senate Small Business Committee, and as an advisor and consultant to public and private agencies including the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, AT&T, MCI, Sprint, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Department of Energy, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. In that capacity, he has participated in a number of regulatory and antitrust proceedings and has testified before state and federal legislative and regulatory bodies on topics including monopolization, price fixing, mergers, and regulatory pricing policy. R. Hewitt Pate is head of the Hunton & Williams Global Competition Practice Group. His practice includes all aspects of competition law counseling and litigation including antitrust, business torts, and intellectual property. From 2003 to 2005, he was Assistant Attorney General for the DOJ Antitrust Division. Before this appointment, Mr. Pate was Deputy Assistant Attorney General, responsible for DOJ antitrust enforcement in fields such as energy, aviation and other transportation, and telecommunications. From 1990 to 2001, Mr. Pate was a partner (previously associate) at Hunton & Williams. He has extensive experience litigating cases involving regulation of the competitive process, including antitrust, patent, trademark, trade secrets, false advertising and other business torts. In 1999, Mr. Pate served as Ewald Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. His background includes Judicial Clerkships for the Honorable Anthony M. Kennedy, U.S. Supreme Court, 1989-90; the Honorable Lewis F. Powell, Jr. (Ret.), U.S. Supreme Court, 1988-89; and the Honorable J. Harvie Wilkinson III, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, 1987-88. Scott Wallsten is a senior fellow at the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies and resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Before joining the Joint Center, he had been an economist at The World Bank, a scholar at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and a staff economist at the US President’s Council of Economic Advisers. His interests include industrial organization and public policy, and his research has focused on regulation, privatization, competition, and science and technology policy. His work has been published in journals including the RAND Journal of Economics, The Journal of Economic History, the Journal of Industrial Economics, the Journal of Regulatory Economics, Regulation, and Nature Magazine, as well as The Washington Post, The Financial Times, and newspapers throughout the world. |
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