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Thomas M. Lenard

President and Senior Fellow
tlenard@techpolicyinstitute.org

Thomas Lenard is president and senior fellow at the Technology Policy Institute. Lenard is the author or coauthor of numerous books and articles on telecommunications, electricity, antitrust, privacy, e-commerce and other regulatory issues. His publications include Net Neutrality or Net Neutering: Should Broadband Internet Services Be Regulated?; The Digital Economy Fact Book; Privacy and the Commercial Use of Personal Information; Competition, Innovation and the Microsoft Monopoly: Antitrust in the Digital Marketplace; and Deregulating Electricity: The Federal Role.

Before joining the Technology Policy Institute, Lenard was acting president, senior vice president for research and senior fellow at The Progress & Freedom Foundation. He has served in senior economics positions at the Office of Management and Budget, the Federal Trade Commission and the Council on Wage and Price Stability, and was a member of the economics faculty at the University of California, Davis. He is a past president and chairman of the board of the National Economists Club.

Contributions

• Evaluating the Effects of Wholesale Electricity Restructuring, by Thomas M. Lenard and Stephen McGonegal, September 18, 2008
• Lenard Files Comments With FCC on AWS-3 Spectrum Auction, June 5, 2008
• Comments with NTIA on ICANN, Tie with Department of Commerce Should Not Be Terminated, by Thomas M. Lenard, February 5, 2008
• An Examination of the Google-DoubleClick Merger and the Online Advertising Industry: What Are the Risks For Competition and Privacy. Testimony before the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights Committee on the Judiciary, by Thomas M. Lenard, September 27, 2007
• Googling Monopoly, by Thomas M. Lenard and Paul H. Rubin, August 22, 2007
• Privacy and the Commercial Use of Personal Information: The Case of Customer Proprietary Network Information, by Thomas M. Lenard and Paul H. Rubin, August 15, 2007
• Comments to the Federal Communications Commission Regarding Broadband Industry Practices, by Thomas M. Lenard, June 14, 2007
• Vista, Open Access and Net Neutrality, by Thomas M. Lenard, November 25, 2006
• Intellectual Property Index for the Information Technology Sector, by Thomas M. Lenard, November 14, 2006
• Perspective: Time to Rethink Set-Top Box Regulation, by Thomas M. Lenard, September 28, 2006
• Privacy in the Commercial World II, by Thomas M. Lenard, June 20, 2006
• Why Don't We Just Auction the 'White Space'?, by Thomas M. Lenard, May 16, 2006
• DACA Report from the Working Group on New Spectrum Policy, Release 1.0, by Lawrence White and Thomas M. Lenard, March 22, 2006
• Slow Down on Data Security Legislation, by Paul H. Rubin and Thomas M. Lenard, August 9, 2005
• An Economic Analysis of Notification Requirements for Data Security Breaches, by Paul H. Rubin and Thomas M. Lenard, July 12, 2005
• The Streamlined Sales Tax Project: An Initiative Whose Time has Not Yet Come, by Stephen McGonegal and Thomas M. Lenard, May 23, 2005
• Wireless Philadelphia: A Leap Into the Unknown, by Thomas M. Lenard, April 3, 2005
• FERC's New Regulatory Agenda, by Thomas M. Lenard, October 16, 2002
• FERC's Flawed Assessment of the Benefits and Costs of Regional Transmission Organizations, by Thomas M. Lenard, May 22, 2002
• Orbitz: An Antitrust Assessment, by William F. Adkinson, Jr. and Thomas M. Lenard, April 22, 2002
• Privacy and the Commercial Use of Personal Information, by Thomas M. Lenard and Paul H. Rubin, January 15, 2002

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