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Michael Altschul is the Senior Vice President and General Counsel of CTIA - The Wireless Association. Mr. Altschul joined CTIA in 990 after serving with the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice. Prior to that, hebegan his legal career as an attorney specializing in antitrust litigation with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in New York City.As CTIA’s General Counsel, Mr. Altschul is responsible for the Association’s legal advocacy and compliance with antitrustand other applicable laws, and he is an active participant in the development of the Association’s public policy positions.
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William Blumenthal is General Counsel of the Federal Trade Commission. Before entering government service in
March 2005, he practiced law as a partner in the Washington, DC ofce of King & Spalding LLP. He was active in the work
of the International Competition Network, the ABA Antitrust Section, the Competition Committee of the OECD Businessand Industry Advisory Committee, the Commission on Competition of the International Chamber of Commerce, theAntitrust Council of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the Board of Editors of the Matthew Bender
Antitrust Report
.
His articles have appeared in
California Law Review
,
George Washington Law Review
,
Antitrust Law Journal
,
Antitrust Bulletin
, and other publications.
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Dan Brenner is Senior Vice President for Law and Regulatory Policy at the National Cable and TelecommunicationsAssociation (NCTA) in Washington, DC. He has served in this position since 1992. He has also served as the Director of the Communications Law Program at UCLA Law School, and as Senior Legal Advisor to Chairman Mark Fowler of the
Federal Communications Commission from 98 to 986. Mr. Brenner is on the Board of Directors of Cable Positive, the
AIDS awareness and support organization of the cable industry. He was a Senior Fellow at The Annenberg WashingtonProgram, and served as Vice-Chairman of the U.S. Delegation to the ITU World Radio Conference held in Geneva,Switzerland. He is a former member of the Board of Trustees of Stanford University, having attended both StanfordUniversity and Stanford Law School.
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Mr. Cohen serves as Vice President and Deputy General Counsel of Government Relations for eBay Inc. Mr. Cohen
is responsible for global public policy and manages eBay’s 30+ employee government relations team around the world.
He was eBay’s rst full-time public policy employee in March 2000 in Washington, DC, and since September 2004 he
has led the company’s global government relations out of corporate headquarters in San Jose. Prior to joining eBay, Mr.Cohen was Vice President and Counsel of New Media for the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). Before that,
he served as European Legal Counsel and Vice President for the Business Software Alliance in the London ofces of Covington & Burling. Prior to that, he worked as an associate at Covington & Burling in Washington, DC. He also workedas a Congressional aide before attending George Washington University Law School.
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Joseph Farrell is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Fellow of the Econometric
Society, former editor of the
Journal of Industrial Economics
, and former President of the Industrial Organization Society.Professor Farrell was Chief Economist at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 996 and 997, and he waslater Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economics at the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice
during 2000 and 2001. From 2001 to 2004 he served on the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the
National Academies of Science.
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Harold Feld is Senior Vice President of the Media Access Project (MAP), a non-prot public interest law rm
protecting the public’s right to speak and hear information from a diversity of sources through the electronic media. Prior
to joining MAP, Mr. Feld worked as an associate at the DC ofce of Covington & Burling and clerked on the DC Court of Appeals for the Hon. John Ferren. In addition to writing articles for academic publications and trade journals, he maintains
a blog on media policy, Tales of the Sausage Factory, at http://www.wetmachine.com/totsf. Mr. Feld received his BA fromPrinceton in 989 and his JD from Boston University in 993.
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Dr. George S. Ford is a co-founder and the Chief Economist of the Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal & EconomicPublic Policy Studies. The Phoenix Center is an international, non-prot 501(c)(3) organization that studies broad public-
policy issues related to governance, social and economic conditions, with a particular emphasis on the law and economicsof regulated industries. Dr. Ford also has extensive experience in both government and in private industry, serving asan economist for the Federal Communications Commission’s Competition Division, MCI Communications, and Z-Tel
Communications. His research on the communications and other industries has been published in such internationally
respected journals such as the
Journal of Law and Economics
, the
Journal of Business
, the
Antitrust Bulletin
, and
Empirical Economics
, among others. Dr. Ford has also published chapters in books such as the
International Handbook of Telecommunications Economics
,
Economic Growth and Productivity
, and
Antitrust Policy Issues
. In addition, Dr. Fordis often called upon to testify before state legislatures and regulatory commissions. Dr. Ford has co-authored most of thePhoenix Center’s
Policy Papers
and
Policy Bulletins
, some of which address the issue of Network Neutrality.
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Chuck Goldfarb covers telecommunications and media competition issues for the Congressional Research Service (CRS).In his four years at CRS, he has authored reports for Congress on access to broadband networks, Telecommunication
Act reform, a la carte cable pricing, cable franchising, the FCC’s media ownership rules, statutes and rules affecting local
programming, and intercarrier compensation. Prior to joining CRS, Mr. Goldfarb was director for law and public policyat MCI, where he performed analysis and testied as an expert witness in support of proposals for federal and state
regulatory frameworks consistent with the transition from monopoly to competitive markets. In that capacity, he workedclosely with the company’s business units and network engineers. Before joining MCI, Mr. Goldfarb was an economicconsultant for four years, working on antitrust, telecommunications, and intellectual property issues. Mr. Goldfarb began
his career in 1974, rst performing antitrust analysis at the FTC, then working on broadcast deregulation at the FCC, andthen addressing a wide variety of infrastructure and regulatory issues at the Ofce of Management and Budget.
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Alfred E. Kahn is the Robert Julius Thorne Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus, Cornell University (previously
Chairman of the Department of Economics and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences) and Special Consultant to
National Economic Research Associates, Inc. (NERA). Dr. Kahn’s previous positions include Senior Staff, President’sCouncil of Economic Advisors (1955-57); Chairman of the New York Public Service Commission (1974-77) and CivilAeronautics Board (1977-78); and Advisor to President Carter on Ination (1978-80). During the last 30 years Dr. Kahn
has concentrated on the economics of regulation – of the telecommunications industry in particular – as a member of the Economic Advisory Council of AT&T, at the New York PSC, as witness in a large number of regulatory proceedings,and as a member of the National Advisory Council of The Digital Age Communications Act Project to re-write the 996
Telecommunications Act. Dr. Kahn’s relevant publications include the two-volume
The Economics of Regulation
; threesmaller books on the deregulation process, the latest of these,
Telecommunications and Airlines after the Crunch
(2004), published by the AEI-Brookings Joint Center; and “Reforming the FCC and Its Mission: Lessons From the AirlineExperience” (2005) and “Telecommunications: the Transition from Regulation to Antitrust” (2006), both in the University of
Colorado’s
Journal on Telecommunications and High Technology Law
.
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Jeannine Kenney is a senior policy analyst for Consumers Union (CU), publisher of Consumer Reports, workingout of the Washington, DC policy ofce. Ms. Kenney covers telecommunications and media policy for the organization,representing consumers on Capitol Hill and before federal agencies. Prior to joining CU, she served as Vice President
for Public Affairs and Member Services at the National Cooperative Business Association, a membership organization for
consumer-owned cooperatives. Kenney, a former Capitol Hill staffer for Senators Feingold and Kohl, is a graduate of theUniversity of Wisconsin. She is currently working toward her JD at the Georgetown University Law Center.
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Dr. William Lehr is an economist and researcher in the Computer Science and Articial Intelligence Laboratory(CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he helps direct the Communications Futures Program
(CFP). The CFP is a joint industry-academic multidisciplinary research effort focused on the mix of technical, economic,
and public policy challenges confronting the Internet Infrastructure industries. Dr. Lehr’s research focuses on the
economic and policy implications of broadband Internet access, next generation Internet architecture, and radio spectrum
management reform. Dr. Lehr has over twenty years of telecommunications industry experience as a researcher andindustry consultant. Dr. Lehr holds a PhD in Economics from Stanford, an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School, and
MSE, BA, and BS degrees from the University of Pennsylvania.
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Thomas Lenard is a senior fellow and senior vice president for research at The Progress & Freedom Foundation. He
is author or editor of numerous books and articles on competition and other regulatory issues affecting the informationand communications technology sectors, including
Net Neutrality or Net Neutering: Should Broadband Internet ServicesBe Regulated
(2006). He has served in senior positions at the Ofce of Management and Budget, the Federal TradeCommission, and the Council on Wage and Price Stability. He was a member of the economics faculty at the Universityof California, Davis, and has been a visiting economist at the Brookings Institution. Dr. Lenard received his BA from the
University of Wisconsin and his PhD from Brown University.
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Mr. Libertelli is Senior Director of Government and Regulatory Affairs for Skype, a global Internet communicationscompany. Before joining Skype in July 2005, he was Senior Legal Advisor to FCC Chairman Michael Powell. During the
period from July 00 until March 005, he managed the Chairman’s broadband and competition policy agendas and
was central to the development of the FCC’s “Internet Freedom” and Internet Telephony framework. In his capacity asSenior Legal Advisor, he was responsible for working closely with federal and state regulators and the Congress in thecontext of telecommunications reform efforts. He also held a number of senior positions at the FCC, including special
counsel for competition policy, and has published widely in the areas of telecommunications policy and regulation. Before
joining the FCC, Mr. Libertelli represented competitive local exchange carriers and wireless providers in private practice in
Washington, DC. When he is not traveling for Skype, he lives and works in Washington, DC with his dog, Wagner.
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Greg Luib is Assistant Director of the Ofce of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission and a member of the Commission’s Internet Access Task Force. In his current position, Mr. Luib helps develop and implement competitionand consumer protection policy at the FTC. Prior to joining the FTC in 2005, Mr. Luib practiced law in the antitrust groupat Jones Day in Washington, DC. While in private practice, Mr. Luib worked in the areas of merger review, antitrustcounseling, and complex litigation. Prior to attending law school, Mr. Luib was an associate at the economics consultingrm Charles River Associates. Mr. Luib is active in the ABA Antitrust Section, where he currently serves as Vice-Chair of the Programs Committee, and where he previously served as an editor of the Section’s Annual Review of Antitrust LawDevelopments. Mr. Luib received both his undergraduate (BA with high distinction) and law degrees from the University of
Virginia.
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Walter B. McCormick, Jr. is the President & CEO of the United States Telecom Association (USTelecom), a tradeassociation representing the converged telecommunications industry. Mr. McCormick is a respected Washington veteran.
He has served as President & CEO of the American Trucking Associations; as General Counsel of the U.S. Department
of Transportation; as General Counsel of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation; and as
a partner with Bryan Cave LLP, an international law rm of more than 500 lawyers, where he headed the practice groupon Regulatory Affairs, Public Policy and Legislation. Mr. McCormick is a member of the President’s National SecurityTelecommunications Advisory Committee, the Board of Directors of Rockhurst University, the Missouri Bar, the Districtof Columbia Bar, and the Federal Communications Bar Association. He has been recognized by
Who’s Who in America
,and
Who’s Who in American Law
. He holds degrees in journalism and law from the University of Missouri, has studied
international economics and political science at Georgetown University, and has completed the program for senior
managers in government at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
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