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BIOGRAPHIES

Robert Crandall is a senior fellow in the economic studies program of the Brookings Institution and the founder of the consulting firm Criterion Economics. Mr. Crandall’s current research focuses on competition in the telecommunications sector and the development of broadband services. Previously, he served as the assistant, acting, and deputy director for the Council on Wage and Price Stability. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including Competition and Chaos: U.S. Telecommunications since the 1996 Act (Brookings Institution Press, 2005), Broadband: Should We Regulate High-Speed Internet Access? (Brookings Institution Press, 2002), and Who Pays for “Universal Service”? (Brookings Institution Press, 2000). Mr. Crandall has taught economics at Northwestern University, MIT, the University of Maryland, George Washington University, and the Stanford in Washington program.

Robert Hahn is a senior fellow at AEI and executive director of the Reg-Markets Center. He is also a senior visiting fellow at Oxford University’s Smith School. Previously, he worked for the Council of Economic Advisers and served on the faculties of Harvard University and Carnegie Mellon University. Mr. 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 Press, 2000) and several other books. In addition, Mr. Hahn is the cofounder of the Community Preparatory School, an inner-city middle school in Providence, R.I., that provides opportunities for disadvantaged youth to achieve their full potential.

Michael Katz is the Harvey Golub Professor of Business Leadership and a professor of management at the Stern School of Business at New York University. He teaches courses in competitive and corporate strategy. Previously, Mr. Katz was the Sarin Chair in Strategy and Leadership at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. He served as the deputy assistant attorney general for economic analysis from 2001 to 2003 and as the chief economist of the Federal Communications Commission from 1994 to 1996. Mr. Katz has published numerous articles on the economics of network industries, intellectual property, telecommunications policy, and antitrust enforcement. He is a member of the editorial boards of Information Economics and Policy, the Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, and the Journal of Industrial Economics. He also serves on the computer science and telecommunications board of the National Academies.

Robert Shapiro is the cofounder and chairman of Sonecon, LLC, a private firm that provides advice and analysis to senior business executives, U.S. and foreign government officials, and nonprofit organizations. He is also a senior policy fellow at the Georgetown University Center for Business and chair of the U.S. Climate Task Force. Previously, Mr. Shapiro was the under secretary of commerce for economic affairs from 1997 to 2001. He was the principal economic adviser to the Clinton presidential campaign and a senior economic adviser to the 2000 Gore and 2004 Kerry presidential campaigns. In 2008, he advised the Obama campaign and transition. Mr. Shapiro is widely published and his most recent book is Futurecast: How Superpowers, Populations and Globalization Will Change the Way You Live and Work (St. Martin’s Press, 2008).

Gigi Sohn is the president and cofounder of Public Knowledge, a nonprofit organization that addresses the public’s stake in the convergence of communications policy and intellectual property law. She is also a nonresident fellow at the University of Southern California Annenberg Center and a senior fellow at the University of Melbourne Law School. Ms. Sohn has taught at Georgetown University and at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University. Ms. Sohn was appointed by President Clinton to serve as a member of the Advisory Committee on the Public Interest Obligations of Digital Television Broadcasters. She serves on the board of the Telecommunications Policy Research Conference and Broadcasters’ Child Development Center. She is a contributor to the Huffington Post and has been published in the Washington Post, Variety, CNET, and Legal Times.