Anne K. Bingaman is the chairman and chief executive officer of DBA Communications, LLC. Before joining DBA, Ms. Bingaman was senior corporate vice-president and the first president of the Local Services Division of LCI International Telecom, Inc., the assistant attorney general in charge of the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, a partner and the head of the Litigation Department of Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy, and the founder of and a partner at Bingaman & Davenport in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Ms. Bingaman was also an associate professor of law at the University of New Mexico Law School. She is a fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a member of the American Law Institute.

James H. Burnley IV is a partner specializing in federal governmental relations and regulatory affairs at Winston & Strawn. Before joining Winston & Strawn, Mr. Burnley served as secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation, where he was previously general counsel and deputy secretary. Mr. Burnley was also an associate deputy attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice and director of the VISTA program. Currently, he is vice-chairman of the Virginia Port Authority's board of commissioners and a member of the board of directors of Infrasoft, Inc.

Robert W. Crandall is a senior fellow in the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution. Previously, he was deputy director of the Council on Wage and Price Stability during the Ford and Carter administrations and a faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and George Washington University. He has been a consultant to the Environmental Protection Agency, the Antitrust Division of the Federal Trade Commission, and the Treasury Department. He has published widely in the fields of antitrust, the automobile industry, competitiveness, deregulation, environmental policy, industrial policy, mergers, regulation, the steel industry, and telecommunications policy.

Edward M. Emmett is the president and chief operating officer of the National Industrial Transportation League. Before joining that association, Mr. Emmett was a commissioner at the Interstate Commerce Commission. A Republican state representative from 1979 to 1987, he served as chairman of the Texas House Committee on Energy and as a member of the Committee on Transportation and represented Texas on numerous national committees relating to energy and transportation policy. Mr. Emmett is a member of the board of advisers of the U.S. Merchant Marine's Center for Global Logistics and Transportation, the Business Advisory Committee of Northwestern University's Transportation Center, and the board of directors of the Intermodal Transportation Institute at the University of Denver.

Curtis M. Grimm is chairman and professor in the Department of Logistics, Business, and Public Policy at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business. A consultant for many government agencies and private firms, including the U.S. Department of Transportation, the Interstate Commerce Commission, the General Accounting Office, the Postal Rate Commission, railroads, and railroad shippers, Mr. Grimm has published numerous articles in scholarly journals. His current research centers on merger policy and competitive access issues in the U.S. rail industry.

Robert W. Hahn is director of the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and a research associate at Harvard University. Previously, he was a senior staff member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. A consultant to government and industry on a variety of issues involving regulation and privatization, Mr. Hahn publishes frequently in such general-interest periodicals and leading scholarly journals as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the American Economic Review, the Journal of Economic Perspectives, and the Yale Law Journal. In addition, he is the 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.

Jerry A. Hausman is the John and Jennie S. MacDonald Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and director of the MIT Telecommunications Economics Research Program. A research associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research and an associate editor of the Journal of Public Economics, Mr. Hausman has published extensively in scholarly journals and is the author of Taxation by Telecommunications Regulation (1998), Globalization, Technology, and Competition: The Fusion of Computers and Telecommunications in the 1990s (1993), and Future Competition in Telecommunications (1989). Mr. Hausman received the John Bates Clark Award of the American Economic Association in 1985 for the "most siginificant contribution to economics" for an economist under age forty and the Frisch Medal from the Econometric Society in 1980.

Thomas W. Hazlett is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and professor of agricultural and resource economics and director of the Program of Telecommunications Policy at the University of California, Davis. Formerly the chief economist of the Federal Communications Commission, he has provided expert testimony before federal and state courts, federal agencies, and congressional committees. Mr. Hazlett has published widely in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Reason, and numerous scholarly journals. He is the author (with Matthew L. Spitzer) of Public Policy toward Cable Television (1997).

Charles A. Hunnicutt is a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi. As a member of the Government Affairs Department, he focuses on transportation and international affairs. Before joining the firm, Mr. Hunnicutt was assistant secretary of transportation for aviation and international affairs at the U.S. Department of Transportation and advised the secretary of transportation on commercial aviation policy and other international transportation and trade matters. At the Department of Transportation, he also directed activities relating to international aviation agreements, international aviation policy, domestic aviation issues, and the department's international role in maritime, highway, and rail transportation.

Paul L. Joskow is the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics and Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was a visiting professor at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School, and a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Mr. Joskow has served as an adviser or consultant to many groups, including the National Science Foundation, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and the World Bank. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, president of the Yale University Council, a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institut d'Economie Industrielle, and a fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Alfred E. Kahn is the Robert Julius Thorne Professor of Economics at Cornell University and a special consultant to the National Economic Research Associates. Formerly, Mr. Kahn served as adviser to President Carter on inflation, as chairman of the Council on Wage and Price Stability, as chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, and as chairman of the New York State Public Service Commission. Throughout his career, Mr. Kahn has served on a variety of public and private boards and commissions. He is the author of the classic Economics of Regulation (1970, 1971, 1988) and of Letting Go: Deregulating the Process of Deregulation (1998).

Robert E. Litan is codirector of the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies and director of the Economic Studies Program and Cabot Family Chair in Economics at the Brookings Institution. Formerly, he was associate director of the Office of Management and Budget, deputy assistant attorney general in the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, and a regulatory specialist for the President's Council of Economic Advisers. An economist and an attorney who has practiced law and taught banking law at the Yale Law School, Mr. Litan is the author or coauthor of numerous books and articles on financial institutions, international trade, and regulatory issues. He consulted for numerous organizations, public and private, and testified as an expert witness in a variety of legal and regulatory proceedings.

Elizabeth A. Moler is a partner in the Energy Practice Department at Vinson & Elkins and cochair of the firm's electric power practice. Before joining Vinson & Elkins, she was deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy, a member and later chair of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and senior counsel for the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ms. Moler is a member of the District of Columbia Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the board of directors of Unicom Corporation, and the board of directors of the Henry M. Jackson Foundation. Her numerous honors include the National Energy Resources Organization's Distinguished Service Award (1996) and the Women's Council on Energy and the Environment's Woman of the Year Award (1996 and 1998).

Steven A. Morrison is chairman and professor in the Department of Economics at Northeastern University. Before joining Northeastern in 1982, he was an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia and has held visiting positions at Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the London School of Economics, and the Brookings Institution. Managing editor of the Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, Mr. Morrison is the author of numerous articles on transportation economics and air transportation and coauthor (with Clifford Winston) of The Economic Effects of Airline Deregulation (1986) and The Evolution of the Airline Industry (1995). He frequently writes op-ed pieces for newspapers and has testified before Congress on airline competition matters.

John W. Rowe is chairman, president, and chief executive officer of Unicom Corporation and the Commonwealth Edison Company. Mr. Rowe was formerly president and chief executive officer of New England Electric System, one of the first electric utilities in the United States to open its market to competition. Before joining NEES, he was president and chief executive officer of Central Maine Power Company, senior vice-president of law at Conrail, and an attorney whose practice focused on environmental, nuclear power, and railroad industry issues.

Jeffrey N. Shane is a partner at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, where his domestic and international transportation practice focuses on regulatory and transactional issues arising in aviation and aerospace. Before joining the firm, Mr. Shane was assistant secretary for policy and international affairs at the U.S. Department of Transportation and deputy assistant secretary of state for transportation affairs. He is currently chairman of the Commission on Air Transport of the International Chamber of Commerce, chairman of the Military Airlift Committee of the National Defense Transportation Association, and president of the International Aviation Club of Washington. Mr. Shane was an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University.

John W. Snow is chairman, president and chief executive officer of the CSX Corporation. Before joining CSX, Mr. Snow was a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, visiting professor of economics at the University of Virginia, administrator for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and deputy undersecretary for the U.S. Department of Transportation. He is on the board of trustees of Johns Hopkins University and the University of Virginia Darden School Foundation and is chairman of the Business Roundtable and a member of the National Commission on Economic Growth and Tax Reform and the Executive Committee of the Business Council.

Clifford Winston is a senior fellow in the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution, where he analyzes industrial organization, regulation, and transportation issues. Before joining Brookings, he was associate professor in the Transportation Systems Division of MIT's Department of Civil Engineering. Coeditor of the annual microeconomics edition of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Mr. Winston is the author of numerous books and of articles that have appeared in such journals as the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Economic Literature, and the Journal of Economic Perspectives.