Aspen Forum 2024

WILL ADAMS is Vice President, Strategic Policy and Planning, at T-Mobile. His team helps define T-Mobile’s positions on major public policy issues through data analysis and close collaboration with business units developing new products and services. Will came to T-Mobile from the FCC, where he was legal advisor to Commissioner Brendan Carr, covering wireless, satellite, and international issues. His previous experience includes roles in Morgan Stanley, Capitol Hill, and the U.S. Department of Justice. He is a graduate of Georgetown University and Harvard Law School.

JENNIFER BACHUS is the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy. Previously she served as Chargé d’Affaires, a.i. and Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Prague, Czech Republic. Prior to that, she served as Office Director for Central Europe at the U.S. Department of State; Special Assistant in the Office of the Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment; Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Pristina, Kosovo; Political-Economic Counselor in Astana, Kazakhstan; and head of the American Presence Post in Toulouse, France. She also served in Vietnam and Jamaica, as well as on a fellowship at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. She has an M.A. from the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium, and a BA from Brown University. She speaks Czech, French, and Russian, and might still manage to mangle a few words of Vietnamese.

JOHN BAILEY is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, focusing on artificial intelligence, education, and innovation. With experience in government, philanthropy, and the private sector, he has worked on broadband expansion, technology, immigration, COVID-19 response, the future of work, and economic mobility. His government roles include special assistant to the president for domestic policy at the White House and deputy policy director to the US secretary of commerce, contributing to the first national pandemic preparedness strategy and policies on competitiveness and immigration reform. He was also director of educational technology at the US Department of Education and vice president for policy for Gov. Jeb Bush’s Foundation for Excellence in Education. A Pahara-Aspen Institute Fellow and member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network, he serves on the boards of Zearn Math, the Federation of American Scientists, and US Digital Response, and on advisory boards for Trustible, XPRIZE, and the Tech Talent Project. Bailey has advised four presidential campaigns and authored reports and book chapters on education and
innovation. He holds a BA in international policy studies from Dickinson College and attended Harvard’s program for Senior Executives in State and Local Government.

Corbin Barthold is Internet Policy Counsel and Director of Appellate Litigation at TechFreedom. Corbin clerked for the Hon. Steven D. Merryday (M.D. Fla.) and the Hon. Robert H. Cleland (E.D. Mich.). After his clerkships, he became an associate, and later a partner, in the Los Angeles office of Browne George Ross LLP, where he engaged in high-stakes complex litigation. He then served as Senior Litigation Counsel at Washington Legal Foundation, a D.C. public-interest firm, where his practice focused on appeals involving administrative law, the separation of powers, antitrust, and tech policy. Corbin received his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. He also holds a B.A., magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of California, San Diego, and an Msc., with distinction, from the London School of Economics.

Johannes M. Bauer is Chief Economist at the Federal Communications Commission. His research examines the design of policies, regulation, and other governance mechanisms that are needed to secure the full benefits of advanced information and communication technologies for society while mitigating their potential risks. Within that broad research program, he has a particular interest in policies affecting the availability and quality of broadband infrastructure, the governance of digital platform ecosystems, as well as policies that support digital innovation (5G/6G, Internet of Things, AI) and entrepreneurship in advanced technologies. His research also addresses the distributional aspects of regulation and policy mechanisms that can be deployed to advance digital equity and inclusion to ensure that technologies benefit all members of society. Dr. Bauer has worked with practitioners in the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors in the United States, helping to find workable approaches to complex policy challenges.

SHAWN BONE is a Senior Director for Public Policy at Verizon, having joined
the company in the fall of 2022. As part of that role, he helps develop spectrum
policy positions for the company and interfaces with key federal officials on
spectrum matters. Prior to joining Verizon, Shawn spent almost a decade as
Democratic Counsel for Telecommunications and Technology Policy on the
Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. He began his
career in tech and telecom policy at Wiley Rein, a DC-based law firm, and has
served as an Adjunct Professor teaching telecom law and policy at the
Washington & Lee University School of Law.

Timothy Bresnahan is Landau Professor of Technology and the Economy, Emeritus, at Stanford University and former Chair of the Department of Economics there. He was Director of the Center for Research in Employment and Economic Growth in the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. Previously, he has served as Chief Economist of the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice and head of the Information Technology in Use research program and of the Stanford Computer Industry Project. His research interests lie in the economics of industry, especially of high-technology industry. Recently, he has been writing on the competition and the structure of the computer and software industries, on the impact of information technology on labor demand and income distribution, on the implications of entrepreneurship in high tech industries for growth and change, and on the founding of high tech clusters such as Silicon Valley.

Peter F. Brown is a Senior Policy Adviser at the Strategy and Innovation Unit of the European Parliament. He recently returned to Brussels after serving as Senior Adviser on Technology Policy in the European Parliament’s Liaison Office in Washington, DC. He resumed his career as a civil servant in 2018 after a decade in the private sector. Peter’s professional career has been predominantly in the European public service and since 1990 as an official in the European Parliament. In the private sector, he advised several Fortune 50 companies and many national governments and international organisations on technology strategy and governance, in cloud, cyber, IoT, AI, and data. He has been engaged in global standardization policy and IT standards development for more than 25 years.
Elizabeth Chernow serves as Executive Director, Public Policy at Comcast Corporation. In this role, she focuses on the development of the company’s positions on a range of issues including broadband, digital equity, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence. She joined the company in 2010 and has over a decade of policy experience. Elizabeth holds a J.D. from American University Washington College of Law and a B.A. in Journalism from The George Washington University. She serves on the Board of The WICT Network: Washington DC/Baltimore Chapter. Elizabeth is a member of the D.C. Bar, an associate member of the Virginia State Bar, and a member of the Federal Communications Bar Association.

Michelle P. Connolly is Professor of the Practice in the Economics Department at Duke University. Professor Connolly previously served as Chief Economist of the Federal Communications Commission in 2006-2007 and 2008-2009, and as an Economist for the International Research Function for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 1996 to 1997. Professor Connolly currently serves as the Director of the Honors Program in Economics and Chair of the Trinity College Arts & Sciences Committee on Curriculum. She previously served on the Duke Alumni Association Board (2012-2016), as Director of EcoTeach (the instructional arm of the Economics Department), and as the founding Economics Director of the Duke in New York: Financial Markets and Institutions Program (2007-2009). Professor Connolly’s research currently focuses on broadband and spectrum policy, though her body of research includes work in international trade, telecommunications policy, media policy, education, growth, and development. She has received funding for her research from the National Science Foundation, the Duke Arts and Sciences Research Council Grants, the Spencer Grant, and the Teagle Grant. In 2011, Professor Connolly testified before Congress and participated in a White House panel on Spectrum Issues. She has been presenting her work at university seminars and international conferences since 1996. Some of her appearances were at the ACLP Advanced Communications 2009 Summit, where she was a panelist and moderator, at the conference on “Wireless Technologies: Enabling Innovation and Economic Growth”, where she served as a keynote panelist, and at the Martin H. Crego Lecture in Economics, an all college Lecture at Vassar College. In 2013 Professor Connolly was awarded a National Science Foundation Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace Grant, “Dollars for Hertz: Making Trustworthy Spectrum Sharing Technically and Economically Viable.” Michelle Connolly graduated Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude, and with the William Massee Prize for Excellence in Economics (best academic grade record in the economics major) from Yale University in 1990. She went on to earn her M.A. and M.Phil and finally her Ph.D. in economics from Yale University in 1996.

Carol Corrado is Distinguished Principal Research Fellow in Economics at The Conference Board, conducting research that focuses on intangible capital, digital innovation, and economic growth from a business perspective. Corrado frequently speaks on these subjects at professional conferences and workshops and has authored widely cited papers on intangibles and their role in the growth of modern economies. Corrado’s work also addresses the measurement of consumer digital services prices, data as an asset, and IT investment goods. An essay on re-imagining GDP that she co-authored won the Indigo Prize in 2017, and she received the ASA’s prestigious Julius Shiskin Award for Economic Statistics in 2003. In addition to her position at The Conference Board, Corrado is Senior Policy Scholar at the Center for Business and Public Policy, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University and Fellow at the National Institute for Economic and Social Research in the UK. Previously a member of the staff of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, DC, Corrado holds a PhD in economics from the University of Pennsylvania and a BS in management science from Carnegie-Mellon University.

Karen Courington is Vice President, Consumer within Google’s Trust and Safety organization. She and her teams play a lead role in ensuring user safety across Google’s wide array of products, including those powered by AI. Previously, she was Senior Director in Facebook’s Product Support Operations Group and prior to that worked in various national security roles in the U.S. Senate, U.S. Department of Defense, and as an Air Force C-17 pilot.

Robert W. Crandall is an adjunct senior fellow at the Technology Policy Institute. His current research focuses on antitrust and regulatory issues in the telecommunications sector. He is the author or coauthor of numerous articles and books on communications policy, including Competition and Chaos: U.S. Telecommunications since 1996; Broadband: Should We Regulate High-Speed Internet Access? (with James H. Alleman); Who Pays for Universal Service? When Telephone Subsidies Become Transparent (with Leonard Waverman); and Talk is Cheap: The Promise of Regulatory Reform in North American Telecommunications (with Leonard Waverman). Crandall was previously a nonresident senior fellow in the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution. He was acting director, deputy director and assistant director of the Council on Wage and Price Stability. Crandall has also served as a consultant to the Antitrust Division, the Federal Trade Commission and the Treasury Department. He has taught economics at Northwestern University, MIT, the University of Maryland, George Washington University, and the Stanford in Washington program. Crandall holds an M.S. and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University.

Andrew DeVore joined Amazon as Vice President & AGC for Litigation in August of 2010 and took on leadership of the Litigation & Regulatory function in September of 2012. He oversees all of the company’s litigation and regulatory affairs, leading the Competition, Privacy, Labor & Employment, Government & Regulatory Litigation, Complex & Intellectual Property Litigation, Law Enforcement Relations, and Lit-Reg Operations teams. Andrew also helps to lead cross-functional external engagement work with the Competition, Competition Economics, Public Policy, and Public Relations teams, and he is particularly proud of having founded and served for many years as executive sponsor of the legal department’s Diversity Leadership Team. Prior to joining Amazon, Andrew founded and ran his own law firm, DeVore & DeMarco in New York focused on advice, investigations, and litigation relating to a wide range of intellectual property and new technology issues. Andrew was previously a litigation partner at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips and litigation boutique Parcher, Hayes & Snyder, and an Assistant US Attorney in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, where he co-founded the Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property unit. Andrew also worked at Debevoise & Plimpton and clerked for a US District Judge in the Eastern District of New York. He graduated with honors from New York University School of Law, and for many years taught the Computer and Internet Crimes seminar at Columbia Law School.

Kat Duffy is a senior fellow for digital and cyberspace policy at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), with over two decades of experience at the intersection of emerging technology, democratic principles, corporate responsibility, and human rights. She recently directed the Task Force for a Trustworthy Future Web at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, publishing a comprehensive report on web trust. As the founder and CEO of RightsDuff Strategies, she has advised companies, governments, and NGOs on integrating socially responsible business practices within the tech sector, aligning emerging technologies with democratic norms and human rights, and establishing best practices for civil society engagement. At the U.S. Department of State and in the nonprofit sector, she managed over $100 million in foreign assistance and philanthropy, focusing on democracy, rights, and governance, particularly digital rights and technology platform accountability. Duffy pioneered public-private partnerships between high-risk civil society actors in emerging markets and private cybersecurity firms. She began her international career in Colombia with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and has served on the boards of the Global Network Initiative and Atlas Corps. She has been an expert advisor for the World Economic Forum’s Partnering with Civil Society in the Fourth Industrial Revolution Initiative and has lectured at Yale, Stanford, and Georgetown on technology policy and innovation. Duffy holds a B.A. from Yale University and a J.D. from the University of Michigan, where she was a Darrow Scholar and Bates Fellow.

Harold Feld is Public Knowledge’s Senior Vice President and author of “The Case for the Digital Platform Act,” a guide to what government can do to preserve competition and empower individual users in the huge swath of our economy now referred to as “Big Tech.” Former FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler described this book as, “[…] a tour de force of the issues raised by the digital economy and internet capitalism.” For more than 20 years, Feld has practiced law at the intersection of technology, broadband, and media policy in both the private sector and in the public interest community. Feld also writes “Tales of the Sausage Factory,” a progressive blog on media and telecom policy. Feld has an undergraduate degree from Princeton University, a law degree from Boston University, and clerked for the D.C. Court of Appeals.

ANDREW N. FERGUSON was sworn in April 2, 2024 as a Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission. President Joe Biden named Ferguson to a term that expires on September 25, 2030. Ferguson most recently served as solicitor general of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Prior to that position, he served as chief counsel to U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, and as a Republican counsel on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. He also practiced law at several Washington, D.C. law firms. He earned his undergraduate degree and law degree from the University of Virginia. After law school, Ferguson clerked for Judge Karen L. Henderson on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

MARC C. GANZI is CEO at DigitalBridge and has been an investor and
operator in the digital infrastructure sector for more than 25 years. Mr. Ganzi
has led DigitalBridge’s transformation to become a premier platform for digital
infrastructure and real estate investment. Ganzi originally founded Digital
Bridge Holdings in 2013 and built the firm into a leading global manager of
digital infrastructure assets with more than $20 billion in AUM, until its merger in
July 2019 into the current public company, DigitalBridge Group, Inc. Previously,
he founded Global Tower Partners, which grew to become one of the largest privately-owned tower companies in the U.S. under his leadership before being acquired for $4.8 billion. Before joining DB Capital, Mr. Ganzi co-founded and served as President of Apex Site Management, one of the largest third-party managers of wireless and wireline communication sites in the U.S. In 1990, he served as an assistant Commercial Attaché in Madrid for the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Foreign Commercial Service Department. He also served as a Presidential Intern for the George H.W. Bush administration with the Office of Special Activities and Initiatives for the Honorable Stephen M. Studdert in 1989. Mr. Ganzi received a B.S. from the Wharton School in 1993. He was a Board Member of the Wireless Infrastructure Association from 2008 to 2017 and served as Chairman from 2009 to 2011. He is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization and the Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee of the FCC.

DAVID GOLDMAN is the Vice President of Satellite Policy for SpaceX. Prior to joining SpaceX in 2018, he was the Chief Counsel for the Communication and Technology Subcommittee since January 2015. Before that, he served as the Senior Legal Advisor for FCC then-Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel. He was the Commissioner’s chief advisor on wireless, international, and public safety issues, along with responsibility for other issues of policy, strategy, public relations, and office operations. David joined Commissioner Rosenworcel’s office from the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, where he served on detail as Counsel to the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet. Prior to serving on Capitol Hill, David served in a number of positions at the FCC, including in the office of Chairman Genachowski and as a Policy Advisor to the Chief of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau. He joined the agency as an Honors Attorney, serving as Attorney Advisor in the Spectrum Competition and Policy Division of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau. Before this, he served as Staff Law Clerk at the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago. He also worked as an associate at the law firm Hughes Hubbard & Reed in New York. David received his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania and his undergraduate degree from the University of Florida.

ANNA M. GOMEZ is an American telecommunications lawyer currently serving as a Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission. From 2013 to 2022, she was a partner at Wiley Rein and in 2023 was a senior advisor in the United States Department of State’s Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy. She was the deputy assistant secretary of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration from 2009 to 2013.

Ambassador David Gross is widely recognized as one of the world’s foremost experts on international telecommunications and Internet policies, having addressed the United Nations (UN) General Assembly and led more U.S. delegations to major international telecommunication conferences than anyone else in modern history. Noted as bringing “innovation and vision to the rapidly changing TMT industry” by Who’s Who Legal and as one of the “Top 30 Telecommunications lawyers in the world” by Euromoney, David draws on more than 30 years of experience as a lawyer, global policymaker, and corporate executive to assist U.S. companies seeking to enter or expand international businesses. He also advises non-U.S. companies, and industry organizations seeking to invest in, monitor, and understand the U.S. and international markets, as well as national governments. David advises companies and others on international and domestic telecoms, Internet, and high-tech strategy focusing on both specific markets and international organizations such as the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), as well as many regional organizations.

Kalpak Gude is the Head of Domestic Regulatory Affairs for Project Kuiper at Amazon. Prior to Amazon, Mr. Gude was General Counsel at Swarm Technologies and President of the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance trade association. He has also had senior roles in the U.S. government at the FCC and U.S. Senate, as well as in industry at OneWeb, Intelsat and PanAmSat.

Scott Blake Harris is the founder of Crest Hill Advisors and the former Senior Spectrum Advisor at NTIA. He represented the agency in its efforts to expand the use of spectrum to support the needs of federal agencies, consumers, and the commercial sector. Scott has practiced law in Washington D.C. for forty-six years, and has extensive communications, energy, litigation, and national security law experience. He previously served in government as the General Counsel of the Department of Energy, as the first Chief of the International Bureau at the Federal Communications Commission, and as Chief Counsel for Export Administration at the Department of Commerce. While at DOE he also served as Co-Chair of the Broadband Subcommittee of the White House National Science and Technology Council. In the private sector, Scott co-founded the law firm of Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis LLP (now HWG) and served as its first Managing Partner and its first Chairman. Scott also served as General Counsel of Neustar, Inc. and as Co-Managing Partner of Wilkinson Barker Knauer LLP. Earlier in his career, he was a partner at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, where he was Chair of the communications practice, and at Williams & Connolly, where began his career in private practice as a litigator. He served as a law clerk to the Hon. Gerhard A. Gesell upon graduation from law school.

Dale N. Hatfield is an Executive Fellow at the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship and an Adjunct Professor in the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder. With over fifty years of experience in telecommunications policy, regulation, and spectrum management, he previously served as the Chief of the Office of Engineering and Technology and Chief Technologist at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Before his tenure at the FCC, Hatfield was the CEO of Hatfield Associates, Inc., a telecommunications consulting firm, and held key positions at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and the FCC. He has been the founding Executive Director of the Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group (BITAG) and currently serves on the FCC’s Technology Advisory Council (TAC) and the Commerce Department’s Spectrum Management Advisory Committee (CSMAC). Hatfield holds a BS in electrical engineering from Case Institute of Technology and an MS in Industrial Management from Purdue University. He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science degree by the University of Colorado in 2008 for his contributions to interdisciplinary telecommunications studies and served as an independent Director of Crown Castle International Corp. from 2001 to 2017.

Janice Hauge Associate Professor, Associate Department Chairperson, and Director of Graduate Admissions, in the Department of Economics at the University of North Texas (UNT), is a recognized authority on telecommunications policy research. A recipient of UNT’s President’s Council Teaching Award, she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in microeconomic theory, industrial organization, and strategic behavior.Hauge began teaching at UNT in 2003. She also publishes research focusing on competition policy and regulation, primarily addressing the telecommunications and broadband industries. From 2005 to 2009, she worked as a tutor and project supervisor for the Master’s Program in Telecommunication Regulation and Policy at the University of West Indies. She currently is chairman of the Telecommunications Policy Research Conference and has served since 2005 as Senior Research Associate at the Public Utility Research Center at the University of Florida.

Thomas Hazlett holds the H.H. Macaulay Endowed Chair in Economics at Clemson University, conducting research in the field of Law and Economics and specializing in the Information Economy, including the analysis of markets and regulation in telecommunications, media, and the Internet. Prof. Hazlett served as Chief Economist of the Federal Communications Commission, and has held faculty positions at the University of California, Davis, Columbia University, the Wharton School, and George Mason University School of Law. His research has appeared in such academic publications as the Journal of Law & Economics, the Journal of Legal Studies, the Journal of Financial Economics and the Rand Journal of Economics, and he has published articles in the Univ. of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Yale Journal on Regulation, the Columbia Law Review, and the Berkeley Technology Law Journal. He also writes for popular periodicals including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Reason, The New Republic, The Economist, Slate, and the Financial Times, where he was a columnist on technology policy issues, 2002-2011. Prof. Hazlett also serves as Director of the Information Economy Project at Clemson University. He has provided expert testimony to federal and state courts, regulatory agencies, committees of Congress, foreign governments, and international organizations. His latest book, THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM: The Tumultuous Liberation of Wireless Technology, from Herbert Hoover to the Smartphone, was published by Yale University Press in 2017.

Jen Hindin is co-chair of Wiley Rein’s Telecom, Media & Technology Practice and chair of the Space and Satellite Group. She advises communications and technology companies on domestic and international regulatory, policy, and transactional matters. She focuses on the licensing and operation of space stations, earth stations, undersea cables, and international telecommunications providers. Her representation includes some of the largest and most successful satellite operators, telecommunications providers, and network operators. She helps clients navigate a highly complex, cross-jurisdictional regulatory environment on issues such as spectrum sharing, space safety, national security, and foreign investment. She is a contributing author and an industry source in several publications, including SatelliteFinance and the USA Chapter in the International Comparative Legal Guide to Telecoms, Media & Internet Laws & Regulations 2017.

Melissa Holyoak was sworn in March 25, 2024 as a Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission. President Joe Biden named Holyoak to a term that expires on Sept. 25, 2025. Holyoak brings extensive experience as a litigator and leader. Most recently, she served as Solicitor General with the Utah Attorney General’s Office where she oversaw the civil appeals, criminal appeals, constitutional defense and special litigation, and antitrust and data privacy divisions. She also managed multistate matters including those involving consumer protection and antitrust claims. Before taking on that role, she served as president and general counsel of Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based public interest law firm and in other public interest attorney positions with the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Center for Class Action Fairness. Holyoak represented class members challenging unfair class actions and consumers fighting regulatory abuse in federal district courts and appellate courts across the country. Holyoak has argued in the Fifth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth and D.C. Circuits. She is a former prosecutor and attorney with O’Melveny & Myers LLP. She graduated from the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law in 2003 as a member of the Order of the Coif and the Law Review. Holyoak is a member of the bars of Utah, D.C., and Missouri (inactive). Her husband Dr. Joshua Holyoak is a urologist and together they have four beautiful children.

Jennifer Huddleston is a Senior Fellow in Technology Policy at the Cato Institute. Her research focuses on the intersection of emerging technology and law with a particular interest in the interactions between technology and the administrative state. Huddleston’s work covers topics including antitrust, online content moderation, data privacy, and the benefits of technology and innovation. Her work has appeared in USA Today, National Review, the Chicago Tribune, Slate, RealClearPolicy, and U.S. News and World Report. She has published in law journals including the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, George Mason Law Review, Oklahoma Law Review, and Colorado Technology Law Journal. Huddleston has a JD from the University of Alabama School of Law and a BA in political science from Wellesley College.

Veneeth Iyengar is the first Executive Director for Louisiana’s broadband efforts (ConnectLA), overseeing nearly $1.6 billion in federal funds to eliminate the digital divide by 2029. Under his leadership, Louisiana’s initiatives have gained national recognition, and their work has been featured in prominent publications like the Wall Street Journal and USA Today. Previously, Veneeth served as Assistant Chief Administrative Officer for East Baton Rouge Parish, leading economic development projects and pandemic response efforts for small businesses. He has also co-chaired the Governor’s Resilient Louisiana Healthcare Task Force and worked in venture capital and private equity. He serves on several boards, including Ochsner Health’s State Advisory Board and the Pennington Biomedical Research Foundation, and he chairs Innovation Catalyst. He has received numerous awards, including the Woodrow Wilson Distinguished Alumni Award for Public Service from Johns Hopkins University. Veneeth holds a Master of Science in Finance from Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Purdue University.

Ginger Zhe Jin is currently Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland, College Park. In 2015-2017, she was on leave at the Federal Trade Commission, serving as the Director of the FTC Bureau of Economics from January 2016 to July 2017. From January 2019 to May 2020, she was on leave at Amazon.com as Amazon Scholar and Senior Principal Economist. In 2022-2023, she was the ADVANCE Professor of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences at the University of Maryland. Most of her research focuses on information asymmetry among economic agents and how to provide information to overcome the information problem. The applications she has studied include retail food safety, health insurance, prescription drugs, e-commerce, regulatory inspection, scientific innovation, air quality, blood donation, vaccination, intrafamilial interaction, data regulation, and consumer protection. Her research has been published in leading economics, management and marketing journals, with support from the National Science Foundation, the Net Institute, the Sloan Foundation and the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Many of her works have been covered by major media outlets including Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Forbes, Bloomberg, and Los Angeles Times. She is currently a managing editor of the International Journal of Industrial Organization, an advisory council member of the Journal of Industrial Economics, and a board member of the Industrial Organization Society. She has been Research Associate of NBER since 2012. In October 2014, she co-founded Hazel Analytics, an analytics company that promotes the use of open government data. She received her PhD in Economics from UCLA in 2000.

Carolyn Kahn serves as Chief Spectrum Economist at The MITRE Corporation, where she works across government, industry, and non-profit organizations to help solve the most difficult spectrum problems for a safer world. She has made groundbreaking technical contributions by applying economic principles to electromagnetic spectrum challenges to help optimize use of this critical national resource. Ms. Kahn’s expertise includes whole-of-nation solutions, electromagnetic spectrum, wireless communications, broadband, 5G/6G, spectrum valuation, spectrum macroeconomics, risk-informed sharing and management, and digital transformation. Her work has informed spectrum and technology modernization decisions at the highest levels of government and international organizations. Additionally, Ms. Kahn has served as a member of the Department of Commerce Spectrum Management Advisory Committee (CSMAC) since 2016, currently co-chairing its 6G Subcommittee and previously co-chairing its Unmanned Aircraft Spectrum Subcommittee. She has been a member of the ATIS Next G Alliance Societal and Economic Needs Working Group and was a facilitator and member of the organizing committee for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Wireless Spectrum Research and Development (WSRD) Workshop on Federal-Commercial Spectrum Sharing: Models, Applications, and Impacts of Incentives for Sharing. She previously led a seminal economic study on aeronautical mobile telemetry in support of the United Nations World Radio Conference in 2007. Ms. Kahn has co-authored reports as requested by Congress and delivered invited keynote presentations at national and international conferences. Ms. Kahn received the 2019 national Women of Color (WOC) Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) award for Outstanding Technical Contribution in Industry. She earned an MBA in Finance and Marketing from McGill University, a BA with high honors in Economics and International Studies from Brandeis University, and the 2023 Distinguished Alumnus award from Shawnee High School.

Michael Katz is the Professor Emeritus at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business. Katz is also a professor in the Economics Department at UC Berkeley. He has previously served as chair of Economic Analysis Group, Strategic Planning Committee, and Policy & Planning Committee at UC Berkeley. In addition, he has served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at UC Berkeley. Katz earned his A.B. Summa Cum Laude, from Harvard University and Ph.D. in Economics from Oxford University.

Ashken Kazaryan is Senior Fellow, Free Speech & Peace at Stand Together. She manages and develops policy projects on free speech, content moderation, surveillance reform and the intersection of constitutional rights and technology. She leads the development and execution of ST’s strategy to both defend free speech online and to promote a culture of pluralism via innovations in how we gather online. Prior to that she was Content Policy Manager on the Content Regulation team at Meta, covering North and Latin America, and was also its policy lead on Section 230. Before that she was the Director of civil liberties at TechFreedom from July 2016 till November 2020. At TechFreedom she also managed outreach and coalition building for the organization and hosted The Tech Policy Podcast. Ashkhen is regularly featured as an expert commentator in news outlets across television, radio, podcasts, and print and digital publications including CNBC, BBC, FOX DC, Newsy, Politico, Axios, The Information, Protocol, The Washington Examiner and many others. Kazaryan received her Specialist in Law degree summa cum laude from Lomonosov MSU in 2012, Master of Law Degree from Yale Law School in 2016 and is completing her PhD in Law at the Law School of Lomonosov Moscow State University (thesis on Legal Regulation of Art Markets). Kazaryan received her Specialist in Law degree summa cum laude from Lomonosov MSU in 2012, Master of Law Degree from Yale Law School in 2016 and is completing her PhD in Law at the Law School of Lomonosov Moscow State University (thesis on Legal Regulation of Art Markets).

Julie Kearney is the first Chief of the Space Bureau at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Launched in April 2023, the Space Bureau plays a key role in advancing the Commission’s Space Innovation Agenda to meet the needs of the next generation Space Age. As a globally-recognized leader/lawyer/board member in the technology and telecommunications field, Julie has been working for more than 25 years with governments, industry, and the public sector around the world to promote legal and regulatory frameworks and policies that enable life-changing technologies. Prior to the FCC, she held senior roles at Loon (an Alphabet company), Twilio Inc., the Consumer Technology Association, National Public Radio, MCI, and private legal practice. She earned her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College and a J.D. from Catholic University’s Columbus School of Law.

Wolfgang Kopf is Senior Vice President for Group Public and Regulatory Affairs at Deutsche Telekom AG (DT), reporting to the CEO.He is also responsible for Competition Law, Media and Spectrum Policy. Wolfgang joined DT in 1995 where he started in internationalbusiness development and M&A. Prior to taking over his current position in 2007, he held various senior positions at DT headquarters as well as in T-Mobile. He was responsible for market entry projects in various European countries, the regulatory part of DT’s US-market entry and the sale of DT`s cable networks.In his current role he has beeninstrumentalfor a varietyof successful projects at DTGroup like managingspectrum auctions, DT’s broadband vectoring strategy and the regulatory strategyforT-Mobile’sSprintMerger. Wolfgang studied Arts and Law at the Universities of Mainz, Speyer and London specializing in European and International Law. Prior to DT he worked for an internationalLaw Firm and the European Commission. Wolfgang Kopf is Chairman of the Committee on Competition of the Federation of German Industries (BDI e.V.)anda Member of the Supervisory Board of Telekom Deutschland GmbH, the ZDF (second public TV channel) Television Council, and the Board of Trustees of the International CharlemagnePrize of Aachen.He is also the Co-editor of two German law journals.

Professor William Kovacic is Global Competition Professor of Law and Policy, and Director of the Competition Law Center, at George Washington University. He is a Non-Executive Director with the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority and has previously been Chairman of the US Federal Trade Commission. He has advised many countries and organisations on antitrust, consumer protection, and the design of regulatory institutions. He holds a J.D. from Columbia University.

Evan Kwerel is Senior Economic Advisor in the Office of Economics and Analytics at the Federal Communications Commission. He has worked on a broad range of spectrum policy issues and has been a proponent of market-based approaches to spectrum management. He conceived the “broadcast incentive auction” – the world’s first two-sided auction to repurpose spectrum – and helped shape the bill to authorize it. After Congress enacted authorizing legislation, he was the key policy advisor on the Incentive Auction Task Force. The broadcast incentive auction concluded in 2017, reallocating 84 MHz of television broadcast spectrum nationwide to meet the growing demand for mobile broadband services. In 1993, after Congress granted the FCC auction authority, he was the primary architect of the FCC’s innovative simultaneous multiple round auction methodology. He was also a major intellectual force in the development of price caps as a replacement for rate-of-return regulation and reforming the regulation of international telecom facilities and rates. From 1976 to 1982, he was an assistant professor of economics at Yale University. In 1981 he was a Brookings Economic Policy Fellow, and from 1982 to 1983, he was a senior economist with the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. He joined the FCC in 1983. In 1995 he received the Federal Communications Commission’s Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Service. In 2009 the Federal Communications Bar Association awarded him the Excellence in Government Service Award. He received the Presidential Rank Award in 2012. Dr. Kwerel received his B.A. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1972 and his Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1976.

John Lin is a senior counsel for the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, where he advises members on telecommunications, media and technology policy. He spent the last four years with the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, working on the same issues. John is an expert on broadband policy. He was the lead staffer on the bipartisan Broadband DATA Act, which reformed how the federal government identifies who has access to broadband and who does not. He also played a role in the enactment of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, and legislation securing communications networks, combating illegal robocalls, and providing access to broadband amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Prior to joining the Commerce Committee, John was an oversight counsel for the Senate Budget Committee and a litigation and regulatory attorney at Wiley Rein LLP, where his practice focused on telecommunications, technology and international trade law. Before becoming a lawyer, John served as personal aide and scheduler for Michigan Governor Rick Snyder. John earned his BA, JD, and MPP from the University of Michigan. He is originally from Bloomfield Hills, MI.

Hector Lopez is the Director of NERA and an expert in market design, focusing on auctions, procurement, and marketplaces. With over a decade of experience, he specializes in the strategy, design, implementation, regulation, pricing, and benchmarking of competitive processes. Dr. Lopez has led bidding strategy teams for high-stake competitive processes and design teams for governments, regulators, and corporations involved in high-value transactions. He has significant experience in the telecommunications sector across the Americas, including the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, and several other countries. Notable achievements include advising a participant in the US incentive auction, resulting in the highest return for a private equity participant, and assisting a Brazilian MNO in the 5G spectrum auction to secure spectrum and fiber deployment obligations at substantially lower costs than competitors. Dr. Lopez is proficient in various auction formats and provides on-site support and software tools utilizing advanced research methodologies. He has published numerous articles on market design and telecommunications policy, and has presented his research at various conferences. Additionally, Dr. Lopez has taught microeconomic theory at the undergraduate and Ph.D. levels.

XIAOMENG LU is a senior analyst in Eurasia Group’s geo-technology practice. She focuses on the interactions of emerging technologies with geopolitics, market dynamics, and regulatory norms. She provides in-depth analysis on key policy issues such as cybersecurity, data protection, artificial intelligence, internet governance, 5G, and trade. Before joining Eurasia Group, Xiaomeng was the China practice lead at consulting firm Access Partnership. In this capacity, she helped top financial and cloud service providers of the US enter China’s market amid the trade war between the two countries. She also played a key role in establishing and expanding the company’s first office in Asia, which generated over $1 million in revenue in three years. Previously, Xiaomeng worked as a global policy director at the Information Technology Industry Council, where she conducted successful advocacy campaigns that led to the suspension of onerous regulatory regimes, helping global electronics manufacturers save billions in potential losses. Xiaomeng has a master’s degree in international trade policy from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Renmin University of China.

Jennifer A. Manner is the Senior Advisor for Space and Satellite Policy at the NTIA’s Office of Spectrum Management. Previously, she was Senior VP of Regulatory Affairs at EchoStar Corporation and held senior positions at the FCC and in the industry, including at MCI/WorldCom and Skyterra. Jennifer has led various organizations like the Global Satellite Operators Association and chaired the Commerce Spectrum Management Advisory Committee. She has taught law at Georgetown University and Carnegie Mellon, authored several books on telecommunications, and produced the film “When Wire Was King.” Jennifer holds degrees from SUNY Albany, New York Law School, and Georgetown University Law School. She resides in Bethesda, MD with her husband and golden doodle.

LAURA MARTIN is Managing Director, Entertainment, Cable and Media at Needham & Company LLC. Martin began her career at Drexel Burnham Lambert in media investment banking, followed by Capital Research & Management, where she advised $100 billion and managed a $500 million portfolio of media stocks. She moved to Credit Suisse First Boston in 1994 as the senior media analyst, where she was nationally ranked by Institutional Investor between 1999 and 2001. In 2002, Martin moved to Paris to become EVP of Financial Strategy and Investor Relations for Vivendi Universal. In 2004, she founded Media Metrics, LLC publishing equity research on the largest entertainment, cable and Internet stocks in the U.S., where she was nationally ranked as “Best of the Independent Research Boutiques” by Institutional Investor for many years. In 2009, Martin moved to Needham & Company, where she publishes research on the largest Internet and Entertainment companies. Martin received her BA from Stanford and her MBA from Harvard Business School, and she is a CFA and CMT.

Konstantinos Masselos has been the chair of the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) since January 2023 and president of the Hellenic Telecommunications and Post Commission (EETT) since 2018. Previously, he served as rector of the University of Peloponnese from 2012 to 2017. He joined the department of information and telecommunications of the same university as professor in computing design in 2006. He was an honorary lecturer in the department of electrical and electronic engineering at Imperial College London from 2010 to 2016. Beforehand, he was lecturer in the same department for three years from(2005 to-2008). He also worked in the Greek electronic communications industry from 2001 to 2004. Masselos has been involved in several research and development projects and has a long consulting experience in industry and public organizations. Since 2005, he has regularly been involved as an expert in various European Commission units. He was a member of the Scientific Committee of European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) from 2015 to 2017. He has authored over 120 papers in international journals and conferences.
Svetlana Matt is Director of Public Policy at DISH, where she leads the company’s public policy work. Before joining DISH, Svetlana worked as AI Policy Manager at Meta, where she led global AI legislation and policy development efforts. Prior to Meta, Svetlana served as Legislative Director for Congressman Jerry McNerney. In this role, she oversaw the Congressman’s legislative agenda, handled telecommunications and technology policy for the Congressman and his work on the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, and drove the staff work of the House Wi-Fi Caucus and the House AI Caucus (which the Congressman co-chaired). Her experience also includes serving as an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University and various positions at the U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, and the World Bank. She holds a J.D. from the University of California College of Law, San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings), and a B.A. in Economics and International Political Economy from the University of Puget Sound.

Rob McDowell is co-chair of Cooley’s global communications practice group, advising telecommunications, media, and technology clients, including private equity funds, on critical regulatory, legal, and business matters. A former FCC commissioner appointed by Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, he was unanimously confirmed by the Senate both times. During his tenure, Rob expanded consumer access to spectrum, played a key role in the 2009 digital TV transition, and established a federal ban on racially discriminatory broadcast advertising practices. He also worked on major mergers like Sirius/XM, Comcast/NBC-Universal, and Verizon/AllTel. At Cooley, he represents clients on transformative deals before the FCC, Congress, and other regulatory bodies. An advocate for internet freedom, Rob served on the US delegation to the 2012 World Conference on International Telecommunications, successfully opposing international internet regulation.

Giulia McHenry leads the Office of Economics & Analytics, at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, which is responsible for expanding and deepening the use of economic analysis into Commission policy making, enhancing the development and use of auctions, and implementing consistent and effective agency-wide data practices and policies. Giulia joined OEA in 2018 after serving for three years as Chief Economist of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). She is an expert in the economics of the Internet, telecommunications, and media. She has advised and written reports on a range of issues including broadband policy, adoption and access; the digital economy; and the economics of spectrum and spectrum management. Prior to joining NTIA, Giulia was a Senior Associate at The Brattle Group, where she focused on telecommunication matters, prepared expert reports and coauthored papers related to spectrum management and valuation, broadband deployment, regulatory proceedings, Universal Service Fund, and competition policy. Giulia received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Maryland in 2009.
Betsy McIntyre is Senior Counsel for communications and media issues to the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, majority staff. Her team provides counsel on issues related to national security in the telecom space, spectrum policy, media policy, and broadband deployment. She has worked in communications law for almost 20 years. Before her current tenure in the Senate, Betsy focused on national security issues at the U.S. Department of Justice, in its role as Chair of the Committee for the Assessment of Foreign Participation in the U.S. Telecommunications Services Sector. Prior to DOJ, Betsy held leadership roles in the Wireline and Wireless Bureaus of the Federal Communications Commission, where she focused primarily on mergers and competition issues. While at the FCC, she also served as an advisor to then-Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel, FCC detailee to Senator Mark Warner (D-VA), and FCC detailee to the then-minority staff of the Senate Commerce Committee. She is a graduate of Duke University; Teachers College, Columbia University; and Vanderbilt Law School.

Sarah Morris serves as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary and Deputy Administrator (Acting) at the NTIA. Sarah is a lawyer, non-profit executive, and recognized communications policy expert. She joined NTIA in March 2022 as the agency’s senior advisor for broadband. Prior to NTIA, Sarah was the executive director of New America’s Open Technology Institute, where she led the organization’s strategic planning, fundraising, and management. Before that role, she directed the organization’s efforts on a broad portfolio of issues including broadband access and adoption, digital privacy, online consumer protections, and preserving the open Internet. Her work on these issues has been widely quoted in national publications and she has appeared as an expert on radio and television outlets. Previously, Sarah was a fellow with the public interest law firm Media Access Project. She is also a legal adjunct professor and has taught multiple courses at George Washington Law School and Georgetown Law Center. Sarah earned a B.A. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and a J.D. and LL.M. in space, cyber, and telecommunications law from Nebraska Law, completing her thesis on privacy and security concerns related to the electric smart grid.

Jon Nuechterlein has been a partner at Sidley Austin LLP since 2016 and co-leads the firm’s Telecom and Internet Competition practice. From 2013 to 2016, Jon served as General Counsel of the Federal Trade Commission. As the FTC’s chief legal officer, Jon oversaw the Commission’s appellate litigation activities and provided legal counsel on a range of antitrust and consumer protection issues. Jon’s extensive government experience also includes positions as Deputy General Counsel of the FCC (2000-2001), as Assistant to the Solicitor General (1996-2000), and as law clerk to D.C. Circuit Judge Stephen Williams (1990-91) and Supreme Court Justice David Souter (1991-92). He is the author, with Philip J. Weiser, of Digital Crossroads: Telecommunications Law and Policy in the Internet Age (MIT Press 1st ed. 2005 & 2d ed. 2013). He is a graduate of Yale Law School and Yale College.

Matt Perault is the director of the Center on Technology Policy at UNC-Chapel Hill, a professor of the practice at UNC’s School of Information and Library Science, and a consultant on technology policy issues at Open Water Strategies. He is also a contributing editor at Lawfare, a fellow at the Abundance Institute, and a fellow at the National Security Institute at the George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School. Previously, Matt worked as a director of public policy at Facebook, where he led the company’s global public policy planning efforts on issues such as competition, law enforcement, and human rights. Matt holds a law degree from Harvard Law School, a Master’s degree in Public Policy from Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy and a Bachelor’s degree in political science from Brown University.

Shira Perlmutter is the Register of Copyrights and Director of the U.S. Copyright Office. Appointed in October 2020, Perlmutter advises Congress and executive branch agencies on copyright policy and directs the administration of important provisions of the U.S. Copyright Act, leading a workforce of nearly 500 employees. Prior to her appointment as Register, Perlmutter had served since 2012 as Chief Policy Officer and Director for International Affairs at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). In that position, Perlmutter was a policy advisor to the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and oversaw the USPTO’s domestic and international IP policy activities, including through the Office of Governmental Affairs, the Global Intellectual Property Academy (GIPA), the IP Attaché Program, and the Office of the Chief Economist. Before joining the USPTO, Perlmutter was Executive Vice President for Global Legal Policy at the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). Prior to that, she held the position of Vice President and Associate General Counsel for Intellectual Property Policy at Time Warner. Perlmutter previously worked at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva as a consultant on copyright and electronic commerce. In 1995, she was appointed as the first Associate Register for Policy and International Affairs at the U.S. Copyright Office. From 1990 through 1995, Perlmutter was a law professor at The Catholic University of America, teaching copyright, trademark, and unfair competition law, as well as international intellectual property law. While on the faculty, she was the copyright consultant to the Clinton Administration’s Advisory Council on the National Information Infrastructure. Earlier in her career, she practiced law in New York City, specializing in copyright and trademark counseling and litigation. She is a co-author of a leading casebook on international intellectual property law and policy, has published numerous articles on copyright issues, and is a research fellow at the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre at Oxford University. Perlmutter received an AB from Harvard University and a JD from the University of Pennsylvania.

Jade Piros de Carvalho is the principal of Per Aspera Advisors, a broadband policy consultancy based in Kansas. She served as director of the Kansas Office of Broadband Development from June 2022-2024, where she oversaw the administration of $650 million in state and federal broadband funding. Prior to her state appointment, Piros de Carvalho worked in rural broadband expansion advocacy for a fiber CLEC and served three terms as Mayor for the city of Hutchinson, Kansas. She holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and a master’s degree in public affairs.

Tom Power is the SVP and General Counsel for CTIA since 2015. Mr. Power served as the U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Telecommunications in the White House Office of Science and Technology from August 2011 until December 2014. Previously, Mr. Power served as Chief of Staff for the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, United States Department of Commerce from April 2009 through August 2011. From 2000 to 2009 Mr. Power was General Counsel for Fiberlink Communications in Blue Bell, Pa. From 1994 until 2000, Mr. Power served at the Federal Communications Commission in several supervisory roles until named Senior Legal Adviser to FCC Chairman William Kennard, where he advised the chairman on broadband, common carrier and mass media matters. Prior to joining the FCC, Mr. Power was a telecommunications and litigation partner at Winston & Strawn. He has undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Virginia.

Alan Raul is Senior Counsel and founder of Sidley Austin LLP’s global Privacy and Cybersecurity practice and a member of the firm’s Crisis Management and Strategic Response team. He represents companies on U.S. and international privacy, cybersecurity, AI, and technology issues, advising on global regulatory compliance, data breaches, and crisis management. Alan also focuses on national security, constitutional, and administrative law, handling matters involving the FTC, SEC, DOJ, FBI, DHS/CISA, and international counterparts. He advises on transactions involving cybersecurity, AI, international data transfers, and digital technologies. Alan teaches at Harvard Law School and is Chair of the Future of Privacy Forum. He has served as an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown and is a member of the U.S. Chamber Litigation Center’s Technology Litigation Advisory Committee and the Council on Foreign Relations. Previously, he was Vice Chairman of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, General Counsel of the Office of Management and Budget, General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and Associate Counsel to the President. Alan holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, an M.P.A. from Harvard Kennedy School, and an A.B. magna cum laude from Harvard College.

Brandy Reitter joined the Colorado Broadband Office in 2022 and is responsible for providing oversight and management of the office’s programs and state-wide strategy for broadband deployment. Her work includes education, outreach, supporting regional collaborations, fostering relations with partners, and mobilizing resources to improve the access and affordability of high speed internet. She works to assist with policy and legislative development, serves on various broadband boards, and supports the work of the office. Her professional experience includes 15 years in local government management in cities and towns across the State of Colorado. As a former Town Manager, she built broadband programs in rural communities and has leveraged resources to deploy broadband in her communities. Her local government experience includes managing towns in Weld, Chaffee, Saguache and Eagle Counties. She has served in roles in public utilities, economic development, and government operations in the City of Longmont, City and County of Denver and the Government of the District of Columbia. She has a Masters in Public Administration from the University of Colorado Denver School of Public Affairs. In 2020, Brandy won the City Manager of the Year for the State of Colorado by the Colorado City County Managers Association and has been appointed to boards for several civic organizations.

Flynn Rico-Johnson is a policy advisor for Commissioner Starks handling wireless, space, and international issues. Most recently he served as Deputy Chief of Staff for Congresswoman Doris Matsui, the lead Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology. During his time in the Congresswoman’s office, Mr. Rico-Johnson managed introduction and passage of the CHIPS for America Act which resulted in a $52 billion investment in American semiconductor research, development, manufacturing, and workforce development. Previously, he worked at the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) and the Office of Senator Amy Klobuchar. He received his master’s degree and BA from the University of Minnesota.
Michael Rosenbaum is Founder & Executive Chairman at Arena Analytics. He has spent his career working to reduce opportunity gaps and scale hiring processes that improve outcomes for individuals and the businesses that hire them. He is the founder and executive chairman of Arena and Catalyte. Prior to starting Arena and Catalyte, Rosenbaum received an Irving R. Kaufman Fellowship to support his work building what is now the analytics engine for talent selection. Previously, he was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics at Harvard, served at the White House as an economist, and served at the U.S. Department of State on trade issues. Rosenbaum has a JD from Harvard Law School, an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a BA from Harvard College.

Greg Rosston is Director of the Public Policy program at Stanford University, the Gordon Cain Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and Professor of Economics (by courtesy). He teaches Economics and Public Policy courses on competition policy and strategy, economic policy analysis, and writing and rhetoric. Dr. Rosston served as Deputy Chief Economist at the Federal Communications Commission working on the implementation of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and the design and implementation of the first ever spectrum auctions in the United States. In 2011, he was Senior Economist for Transactions for the Federal Communications Commission for the proposed AT&T – T-Mobile transaction. He served as a member and co-chair of the Department of Commerce Spectrum Management Advisory Committee. Dr. Rosston received his Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University and his A.B. with Honors from the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Rosston has written extensively on the application of economics to telecommunications and competition issues. He has advised companies and governments regarding auctions and served as a consultant to various organizations including the World Bank and the Federal Communications Commission, and as a board member and advisor to high technology, financial, and startup companies. He serves as Vice Chair of the Board of the Stanford Federal Credit Union, as a Board member of the Nepal Youth Foundation and as an Advisory Board member of Sustainable Conservation and the Technology Policy Institute.

KATHARINE SAUNDERS is Vice President & Deputy General Counsel for Verizon. She leads Verizon’s team responsible for the development and implementation of regulatory strategy and advocacy to advance Verizon’s nationwide broadband plans, including issues relating to broadband deployment funding, network transition, and transformation issues. She also has extensive experience representing the company in regulatory matters before the FCC, other federal agencies, and in the courts, and in private practice with trial experience in both intellectual property and civil cases. Katharine is active in pro bono, both as an appointed Guardian ad Litem in the D.C. courts, and on several non-profit boards, including as the current President of the Board of Woolly Mammoth Theatre.”

Jay A. Schwarz is Vice President for Global Public Policy at Comcast NBCUniversal where he focuses on broadband policy at the federal, state, and local levels. Previously he held roles at the Federal Communications Commission in the Chairman’s office, the Wireline Competition Bureau, the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, and the Office of Strategic Planning. Jay holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pittsburgh as well as degrees in Civil Engineering from Texas A&M University.

Adam Scott is the Vice-Chair of Telecommunications at the CRTC, Canada’s telecom and broadcast regulator. As Vice-Chair, Adam plays a leadership role in driving Canada towards latest-generation telecom services, at affordable rates, in all parts of the country. Adam has over 20 years of expertise in telecommunications policy and regulation, including managing Canada’s 5G spectrum auctions. With 12 years at the executive level, he has developed strategies to optimize the social and economic benefits of wireless spectrum while at Innovation, Science, and Economic Development Canada. Adam has also spearheaded government programs to enhance broadband access in rural and remote areas, addressing gaps in infrastructure, affordability, competition, and innovation. His extensive experience includes consulting and collaborating with industry, civil society, and various government entities. Adam holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Waterloo and has completed the Industry Canada Executive Learning Initiative at Ivey Business School.

Ben Sheffner is Senior Vice President & Associate General Counsel, Law & Policy, at the Motion Picture Association. With dual appointments in the MPA’s Legal and Government Affairs departments, Ben works closely with attorneys and policy advocates internally and at the MPA’s member studios to formulate and implement strategies to create a favorable environment for the industry to thrive, both economically and creatively. Prior to joining the MPA he held in-house legal positions at NBCUniversal and Twentieth Century Fox, and worked as an associate in the Century City office of O’Melveny & Myers LLP, where he litigated copyright and other cases for major movie studios, television networks, and record labels. In 2008, Ben served as Special Counsel on Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign, where, among other responsibilities, he handled the campaign’s copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property issues. Ben served as a law clerk for the Hon. M. Margaret McKeown on the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 2000-2001. Ben serves as an Adviser to the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law, Copyright project and has previously held positions as a Trustee of the Copyright Society of the USA as well as the Los Angeles Copyright Society, and as a participant on the Uniform Law Commission committee that drafted a uniform anti-SLAPP statute. Prior to attending law school, Ben worked as a political reporter in Washington, DC for the Cook Political Report and Roll Call newspaper. Ben received an AB from Harvard College and a JD from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.

Geoffrey Adam Starks is an American lawyer serving as a Commissioner of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC). He was nominated by President Donald Trump and was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate on January 2, 2019. He was sworn into office on January 30, 2019. He was renominated by President Joe Biden for a new term and was confirmed by the Senate on September 30, 2023. Before he entered federal public service, Commissioner Starks practiced law at Williams & Connolly, clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit, served as a legislative staffer in the Illinois State Senate, and worked as a financial analyst. Commissioner Starks graduated from Harvard College with high honors and Yale Law School.

Tom Stroup is President of the Satellite Industry Association. Tom serves as the trade association’s lead advocate for regulatory and policy issues of critical importance to SIA’s membership, including spectrum and licensing issues, defense and public safety matters, and export control and international trade issues. He also manages the day-to-day operations of SIA, including member communications, staff leadership and organization of SIA sponsored events. Tom became the president of SIA in December of 2014. Prior to joining SIA, Tom was with Shared Spectrum Company (SSC), a leading developer of spectrum intelligence technologies, where he served as CEO. For more than a decade, he served as the President of the Personal Communications Industry Association (PCIA). Previous to his position at SSC, he founded and ran several companies in the technology industry, including Columbia Spectrum Management, P-Com Network Services, CSM Wireless, and SquareLoop. Tom holds a B.S., summa cum laude, in Public Administration from the University of North Dakota. He is also a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center where he served as Editor of the Georgetown Law Journal.

Arpan Sura advises FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr on a wide range of legal, policy, and technology issues. He previously served as Senior Counsel to the Chief of the FCC’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, where he led key initiatives on spectrum policy, emerging technologies, and infrastructure. Before that, Arpan practiced at Hogan Lovells, Sprint, and Arnold & Porter, where he handled regulatory and litigation matters for telecom and tech clients. Arpan graduated from William & Mary Law School and holds degrees in computer science, philosophy, and government from the University of Texas at Austin.

Jamie Susskind is the Legislative Director for Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN). Prior to becoming Legislative Director, she served for two years as the Senator’s Technology Policy Advisor. In that role, she advised on issues such as data privacy, cybersecurity, broadband, spectrum, content moderation, and antitrust, in addition to staffing the Senator on the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Data Security. Susskind previously worked on the Hill as Chief Counsel to Senator Deb Fischer (R-NE) and as an FCC Detailee for the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. She also served as Chief of Staff to FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr and as Vice President of Policy and Regulatory Affairs at the Consumer Technology Association. A native Michigander, Susskind earned a Juris Doctor from the Antonin Scalia Law School and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Michigan.

BERIN SZÓKA is President of TechFreedom. Named one of Washington DC’s 500 Most Influential People by Washingtonian Magazine, his work focuses on how law shapes digital media in the U.S. and Europe, especially free expression, consumer and child protection, and telecommunications. Previously, he was a Senior Fellow and the Director of the Center for Internet Freedom at The Progress & Freedom Foundation. Before joining PFF, he practiced law at Latham & Watkins LLP and Lawler Metzger Milkman & Keeney, LLC, and clerked for the Hon. H. Dale Cook, Senior U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Oklahoma. Szóka received his juris doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law, a master’s in European Law at Panthéon-Assas University Paris II, and a B.S. in economics from Duke University. He is admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia and California (inactive).

Becky Tangren is a member of NCTA’s legal team as Vice President and Associate General Counsel with a focus on wireless and spectrum policy issues. Tangren previously was with CableLabs, where she served as Director, Technology Policy, analyzing public policy issues of competitive importance to the cable industry. Prior to CableLabs, she spent ten years in the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau at the FCC, holding the positions of Senior Policy Advisor and Legal Advisor to the Office of the Bureau Chief, and Attorney Advisor in the Mobility Division. Tangren also worked as Director of Regulatory and Government Affairs at the Telecommunications Industry Association.

Jennifer Tatel is a Partner at Wilkinson Barker Knauer LLP. Jennifer brings sophisticated legal analysis and insightful counseling to her clients in the communications and information technology industries. While in public service working in a variety of roles including Acting General Counsel of the Federal Communications Commission and Division Chief in the FCC’s Media Bureau, Jennifer tackled a broad variety of legal issues impacting media and technology companies. She has played a role in some of the largest media transactions considered by federal regulators, and she has been on the cutting edge of legal issues while in public service and on behalf of private clients. Her expertise includes transactions, media issues, video competition, administrative law, and privacy. Jennifer started her professional life as a social worker, working with children in the foster care system in the District of Columbia.

Adam Thierer is a Senior Fellow for the Technology & Innovation team at R Street. He works to make the world safe for innovators and entrepreneurs by pushing for a policy vision that is rooted in the idea of “permissionless innovation.” Prior to R Street, Adam spent 12 years as a senior fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Before the Mercatus Center, he served as the president of the Progress and Freedom Foundation. Adam has also worked for the Adam Smith Institute, the Heritage Foundation and the Cato Institute. Adam has published 10 books on a wide range of topics, including online child safety, internet governance, intellectual property, telecommunications policy, media regulation and federalism. In 2008, Adam received the Family Online Safety Institute’s “Award for Outstanding Achievement.” Adam has a master’s degree in international business management and a bachelor’s degree with a double major in political science and journalism.
Johanna R. Thomas currently is a Counsel to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce’s Subcommittee on Communications and Technology. Prior to her arrival at the Committee, Johanna was a Partner at Jenner & Block in the firm’s Communications, Internet, and Technology practice group. And before joining Jenner, she was the Deputy Chief of Staff for the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). At the FCC, she also served as a Legal Advisor to then Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel with primary responsibility for wireless, international, and public safety issues; a Legal Advisor to the Chief of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau; and as an Attorney Advisor in the Media Bureau’s Industry Analysis Division. Prior to joining the FCC, Johanna was an associate in Arnold & Porter’s Telecommunications, Internet, and Media practice group. Johanna is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.

Bryan Tramont, the firm’s managing partner, offers strategic counsel to Fortune 100 companies and trade associations, as well as small and mid-sized telecommunications and media companies, on all aspects of communications law and regulation. He regularly advises companies as they develop and evaluate new business opportunities in the technology, media, and telecommunications sectors. Before joining WBK, Mr. Tramont served as Chief of Staff of the Federal Communications Commission under Chairman Michael Powell. As Chief of Staff, he managed all aspects of the agency’s operations. Before being elevated to Chief of Staff, Mr. Tramont served as Chairman Powell’s Senior Legal Advisor, as well as prior stints as Senior Legal Advisor to Commissioners Kathleen Abernathy and Harold Furchtgott-Roth. He currently is an adjunct law professor in Catholic University of America’s Communications Law Institute and a senior adjunct fellow at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Mr. Tramont has been recognized by leading publications like Legal 500, Chambers USA, and Washingtonian as one of the nation’s top communications lawyers. In 2017, he was named to the inaugural Legal 500 Hall of Fame List, which highlights individuals who have received constant praise by their clients and who have been recognized by the Legal 500 as an elite leading lawyer for six consecutive years. He has been awarded The Best Lawyers in America © 2017 “Lawyer of the Year” for Media Law and “Lawyer of the Year” in Communications Law in 2016. In 2016, he was also named one of the Top 10 Washington, DC Super Lawyers. Tramont serves on the Commerce Department Spectrum Management Advisory Committee and previously co-chaired the Committee for three years. He is on the Board of Trustees at William Woods University and has served in numerous leadership positions for the Federal Communications Bar Association, including President for 2010-2011.

Hal R. Varian is the Chief Economist at Google. He started in May 2002 as a consultant and has been involved in many aspects of the company, including auction design, econometric analysis, finance, corporate strategy and public policy. He is also an emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley in three departments: business, economics, and information management. He received his SB degree from MIT in 1969 and his MA in mathematics and Ph.D. in economics from UC Berkeley in 1973. He has also taught at MIT, Stanford, Oxford, Michigan and other universities around the world. Dr. Varian is a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, the Econometric Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was Co-Editor of the American Economic Review from 1987-1990 and holds honorary doctorates from the University of Oulu, Finland and the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. Professor Varian has published numerous papers in economic theory, industrial organization, financial economics, econometrics and information economics. He is the author of two major economics textbooks which have been translated into 22 languages. He is the co-author of a bestselling book on business strategy, Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy and wrote a monthly column for the New York Times from 2000 to 2007.
Joel Waldfogel is the Frederick R. Kappel Chair in Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management and is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Before coming to Carlson, Waldfogel was at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School (1997-2010), where he was the Ehrenkranz Family Professor of Business and Public Policy and had served as Department Chair and Associate Vice Dean. Between 1990 and 1997, he was an Assistant and later an Associate Professor of Economics at Yale University. Waldfogel’s main research interests are industrial organization and law and economics. He has conducted empirical studies of price advertising, media markets, the operation of differentiated product markets, and issues related to digital products, including piracy, pricing, and revenue sharing. He has published over 50 articles in scholarly outlets including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, and the RAND Journal of Economics. He has published two books, The Tyranny of the Market: Why You Can’t Always Get What You Want (Harvard University Press, 2007) and Scroogenomics: Why You Shouldn’t Buy Presents for the Holidays (Princeton University Press, 2009). He has also written for Slate. Waldfogel serves on the advisory boards of two companies, Tango Card, Inc. and HowMutch. He received an A.B. in economics from Brandeis University in 1984 and a Ph.D. in economics at Stanford University in 1990.

Jennifer A. Warren is Vice President, Civil & Regulatory Affairs (C&RA) for Lockheed Martin Corporation. In this capacity, she is responsible for leading the corporation’s US Government civil customer relationships, outside of NASA and NOAA, as well as the corporation’s regulatory team engagement across the Executive Branch, Independent Agencies and Intergovernmental Bodies on Lockheed Martin programs, technologies and systems. The C&RA regulatory portfolio includes spectrum governance, 5G, commercial space, crewed/uncrewed aviation, ocean minerals, and emerging technologies. Ms Warren serves on Federal Advisory Committees, including as an appointed member of NASA Advisory Council’s Regulatory Policy Committee, and has just completed serving as Co-Chair of the Department of Commerce Spectrum Management Advisory Committee (CSMAC). Ms Warren holds leadership positions in several professional / trade organizations, including the Boards of the Satellite Industry Association and the US ITU Association. In 1996, Ms Warren joined Lockheed Martin’s Space & Strategic Missiles Sector, and in 2001 she became part of LM Washington Operations. Prior to Lockheed Martin, she served in several senior roles at the US Federal Communications Commission; before joining the US Government, Ms Warren worked for the Commission of the European Union – both in Brussels, and in Washington, DC, – with a focus on EU-US trade. She is also a graduate of Georgetown University (B.S. in Languages) and Georgetown University Law Center (J.D.)
Patrick Warren is a professor of economics and co-director of the Media Forensics Hub at Clemson University. Before coming to Clemson, he studied at MIT, earning a Ph.D. in economics (2008), and an undergraduate degree from the South Carolina Honors College (BArSc, 2001). His research investigates how organizations interact with the information environment: for-profit and non-profit firms, bureaucracies, political parties and even armies. He has written numerous peer-reviewed articles in top economics, political science, communication, and law journals. He has also served on the board of the Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics, been a visiting associate professor at Northwestern University and a visiting scholar at the RAND Corporation.

Martin B.H. Weiss is Professor in the Department of Informatics and Networked Systems in the School of Computing and Information at the University of Pittsburgh. He earned his PhD. in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University. He earned an MSE in Computer, Control, and Information Engineering from the University of Michigan and a BSE in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University. His overall research theme is the analysis of situations where competing firms must cooperate technically; this has expressed itself in studying the standardization process, internet interconnection, and, most recently, radio spectrum sharing. His current research focus is on dynamic spectrum access and intelligent wireless systems. He is currently studying spectrum sharing and spectrum trading with a focus on understanding the system-level factors supporting and constraining the adoption of these technologies. Recent aspects of this have involved studying enforcement in cooperative spectrum sharing approaches, secondary users’ constraints and decisions using decision analysis and real options analysis. Past projects include technical and cost studies new technologies, bandwidth markets, interconnection of packet networks that support quality of service (QoS), and technical standards. He earned a BSE in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University, MSE in Computer, Information, and Control Engineering from University of Michigan and his PhD in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University.

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