CITI : Affiliated Faculty and Researchers

Affiliated Faculty and Researchers

Affiliated Columbia Faculty

Graciela Chichilnisky
Nelson Fraiman
Herbert J. Gans
Jane Ginsburg
Bruce Greenwald
Kathryn Harrigan
Geoffrey Heal
Morris Holbrook
Aurel Lazar
Robert McClintock
Richard R. Nelson
Hugh Patrick
John V. Pavlik
Mischa Schwartz
Bernd Schmitt
Robert Y. Shapiro
Michael Van Biema
Alan F. Westin
Yechiam Yemini

Affiliated Researchers from Other Institutions

Affiliated Columbia Faculty

Graciela Chichilnisky

Graciela Chichilnisky is Professor of Economics at Columbia. She co-founded Financial Tele-communications Ltd. (FITEL - an international telecommunications firm) with Geoffrey Heal, and served as its Chairperson and Chief Executive. She has worked extensively on the Kyoto Protocol process and was a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which won the 2007 Nobel Prize. She is currently working on a decentralized tele-communications system for global custody of international securities. Her most recent books, co-authored with Geoffrey Heal, are The Evolving International Economy and Oil in the International Economy.

Nelson Fraiman

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Herbert J. Gans

Herbert J. Gans is Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University. His publications include The Urban Villagers; Popular Culture and High Culture; Deciding What's News; and Middle American Individualism: The Future of Liberal Democracy. He has also authored the monographs American Films and TV Programs on British Screens: The Functions of American Popular Culture Abroad, and The Uses of Television and Their Educational Implications. Professor Gans is past-President of the American Sociological Association and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Jane Ginsburg

Faculty Research Associate

Jane Ginsburg is Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law at Columbia Law School. Her principal areas of interest are in intellectual property, comparative law, and legal methods. She served as law clerk to Judge John J. Gibbons, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Publications include three casebooks: Legal Methods: Cases and Materials (1996); Copyright for the Nineties (with Gorman, 4th ed., 1993) and Trademark and Unfair Competition Law (with Litman, Goldberg, and Greenbaum, 2nd ed., 1996) as well as a variety of law review articles. Ginsburg serves on the editorial boards of The Michie Co., law school publishers, and of several intellectual property journals in the United States and abroad. She holds a. BA from the University of Chicago, an MA and JD from Harvard, and a D.E.A. and a Doctor of Law from Université de Paris.

Bruce Greenwald

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Kathryn Harrigan

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Geoffrey Heal

Affiliate Faculty Researcher

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Morris Holbrook

William T. Dillard Professor of Marketing Faculty Research Associate

Aurel Lazar

Faculty Research Associate

Aurel Lazar has been a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University since 1988. He is founder of the COMET Group of the Center for Telecommunications Research at Columbia University. He was the chief architect of two experimental networks, generically called MAGNET. This work introduced traffic classes with explicit quality of service constrains to broadband switching and led to the concepts of schedulable, admissible load and contract regions in real-time control of broadband networks. He led the COMET project on the foundations of the real-time control and management architecture of multimedia networks. His management and control research pioneered the application of virtual reality to the management of ATM-based broadband networks. Since 2003, he has been the leader of the Bionet group of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Columbia. Lazar is an IEEE Fellow (1993); a member of the editorial board, Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, Kluwer; editor of Multimedia Systems, ACM/Spring Verlag; member of the editorial board, Telecommunications Systems, Baltzer; editor, Telecommunication Networks and Computer Systems (Monograph Series), Springer-Verlag, New York.

Robert McClintock

Faculty Research Associate

Robert McClintock is a Professor of History and Education. He is also Co-Director of the Institute for Learning Technologies. He is an expert on the applications of digital technology to educational reform, study of Western cultural tradition, urban education, and the history of pedagogy. His selected publications include: Power and Pedagogy: Transforming Education Through Information Technology (Educational Technology Publications). Man and His Circumstances: Ortega as Educator (Teachers College Press). Educating America for the 21st Century: A Strategic Plan for Educational Leadership (Institute for Learning Technologies). Computing and Education: The Second Frontier (Teachers College Press).

Richard R. Nelson

Richard R. Nelson is Henry R. Luce Professor of International Political Economy at Columbia University. His research has concentrated on the processes of long-run economic change, with particular emphasis on technological advances and on the evolution of economic institutions. His recent publications include "R & D, Knowledge, and Externalities: An Approach to the Puzzle of Disparate Productivity Growth Rates Among Manufacturing Industries," "Firm and Industry Response to Changed Market Conditions: An Evolutionary Approach," and "Technical Advance and Productivity Growth: Retrospect, Prospect, and Policy Issues."

Hugh Patrick

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John V. Pavlik

Faculty Research Associate

John V. Pavlik is currently chair of the Department of Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers University. Previously, Pavlik was the executive director of The Center for New Media at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he was also a professor. He is a senior fellow of the San Diego Supercomputer Center. Previously, he served as the founding director of the School of Communication at San Diego State University. He is the former associate director for Research and Technology Studies at The Freedom Forum Media Studies Center at Columbia University. Pavlik's books include New Media Technology: Cultural and Commercial Perspectives, second edition published in 1998 by Allyn & Bacon. Pavlik has also authored more than a dozen computer software packages for education in journalism and communication, including "Fire!" and "Fatal!" Pavlik holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in mass communication from the University of Minnesota. He was graduated in 1978 from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Mischa Schwartz

Faculty Research Associate

Mischa Schwartz, emeritus professor, joined the Electrical Engineering faculty in 1974. He is the author and co-author of eight books in communication systems, computer and telecommunications networks, and signal processing. His current research focuses on lightwave networks of the future, fault management, and access/flow control in broadband integrated networks. He is a Fellow and former Director of the IEEE, past President of the IEEE Communications Society, and past Chairman of the IEEE Group on Information Theory. He was the 1983 recipient of the IEEE Education Medal and received the Cooper Union Gano Dunn Award in 1986 for outstanding achievement in Science and Technology.

Bernd Schmitt

Faculty Research Associate

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Robert Y. Shapiro

Robert Y. Shapiro is Professor of Political Science at Columbia. His research examines the theories of democratic policy making; he recently completed The Rational Public: Fifty Years of Trends in Americans' Policy Preferences (with Benjamin I. Page). His papers on public opinion and its relationship with policy have appeared in the American Political Science Review, Policy Studies Journal, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and (with L. Jacobs) Social Science History.

Michael Van Biema

Assistant Professor of Finance & Economics and Computer Science Faculty Research Fellow

Michael van Biema served on the Columbia facutly from 1992 to 2004, where he directed a program for the study of technology and productivity at Columbia University which is funded in part by the Alfred Sloan Foundation. His research involves understanding the effects technology on productivity in the service sector of the economy. He conducted a number of individual case studies along with other member of the faculty on several communications users and providers. He is member of the faculty of both the Columbia Business School's Finance Division, and the School of Engineering's, Department of Computer Science.
He founded Van Biema Value Partners

Alan F. Westin

Alan F. Westin is Professor of Public Law and Government with Columbia University's Department of Political Science. His main areas of research address privacy, office automation, and employee fair procedure/EEO issues, and the use of new information technologies to expand the distribution of public information to citizens and the voluntary sector. For the past three years he served as the academic advisor for national public and leadership surveys on privacy. He has authored or edited 26 books including The Changing Workplace: A Guide to the People, Organizations, and Regulatory Aspects of Office Technology; Individual Rights in the Corporation: A Reader on Employee Rights; and Computers, Health Care, and Citizen Rights: Report of the Project on Medical Records and Citizen Rights.

Yechiam Yemini

Faculty Research Associate

Yechiam Yemini is a Professor of computer science at Columbia University where he founded and directs the Distributed Computing and Communications (DCC) lab. His research interests include computer networks, network management, economics of information systems, distributed systems and protocols. He has authored over 150 publications, hold 5 patents, and has lectured widely in these areas. Technologies created at the DCC lab have been widely exported to thousands of sites and commercialized by several companies. Yemini is a co-founder of Comverse Technology Inc, a $3.5 billion leading vendor of multi-media message computers for telecom networks. He is also a co-founder and Director of System Management Arts, Inc., a leading technology vendor of software that automates root-cause diagnosis of network problems. Yemini serves as a director of several high-tech companies, advises a major venture fund on high-tech investments, and serves on the US-Israel Science & Technology Commission.

Affiliated Researchers from Other Institutions

David Allen

David Allen’s abiding passion is to help gather world community, and so global perspective, for the research intellectuals who work on questions of communications policy. Such newly global research complements policy makers who already convene regionally and globally. To this end, he has bent his efforts to a new initiative that will catalyze a worldwide perspective for research and also underpin effective interworking with policy makers – a World Collaboration for communications policy research. He is co-principal with others around the globe.

The current half of David Allen’s life has been in communications policy research, around the world. He created the Global Communications Industries Program at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government in the early ‘90s. Previously for going on a decade he was a member of MIT’s Research Program on Communications Policy. He is pleased to be Affiliated Research Fellow, Columbia Institute for Tele-Information at Columbia University. Allen has been Co-Editor of the journal, Information Economics and Policy. His memberships include the Schumpeter Society and the Pacific Telecommunications Council.

In the earlier half of his life, David Allen worked a decade in business starting new ventures. During this time he was also Controller for a US federal grant in the office of the Mayor of Boston. His degrees are from Harvard.

Elias Aravantinos

Founder and Managing Director, ExelixisNet

Mr. Aravantinos is the founder and Managing Director of , which specializes in high technology and media consulting looking into future services integration and new business models. Emphasis on Internet marketing models, Systems integration and business planning as well as technology investement advising.

Parallel to ExelixisNet, Mr. Aravantinos served as a project manager at the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information from 2004 to 2008, working closely with the Director Eli Noam on CITI the project "Ultrabroadband Networks: The Next Frontier."

Mr. Elias Aravantinos has also served as an Adjunct Lecturer at Queens College’s Economics department, teaching Principles, Intermediate Macro, and Economics of Distribution and Marketing. He also used to teach Internet Marketing and MIS in the Media Management Master's Program at Metropolitan College of New York in Manhattan, NY. Summer 2005 - Fall 2006.

Mr. Elias Aravantinos holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Technology and an MBA in Information Technology. He is currently a Ph.D. Candidate at the Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, Howe School of Technology Management.

Huseyin Bayazit

Senior Affiliated Research Fellow

Huseyin Bayazit has over 25 years of experince in media, entertainment, communication and IT industries and currently sits at the executive board of various companies. Mr. Bayazit joined CITI in January 1990 as the International Research Coordinator, later acted as the Director of Virtual Institute of Information and affiliated senior research fellow and advisor. While at the Institute he conducted and published numerous research articles on domestic and international topics in media, entertainment and telecommunications and served international and domestic companies, The World Bank, UNDP, OECD, government agencies and others as a consultant. He has been a lecturer at MBA and graduate programs in various universities. Currently at CITI, Mr. Bayazit has undertaken a project as managing director in the international media and entertainment industries. He holds graduate degrees from Columbia University.

Michael Botein

Michael Botein is founding Director of the Communications Media Center at New York Law School and former co-Director of CTIS at Columbia. His expertise lies in international telecommunications law, the regulation of cable television and new technologies. He has been consultant to the FCC and the Administrative Conference of the United States. He has been Visiting Professor of the Faculte de Droit, University of Melbourne Law School, and at Hebrew University School of Law. He is widely published in the field and co-author of International Telecommunications in the United States (1987) and Cases and Materials on Regulation of the Electronic Mass Media (forthcoming).

John Carey

John Carey is director of the telecommunications consulting firm Greystone Communications. His current research focuses on broadband telecommunication networks and interactive television. Recent publications include: "Plato At the Keyboard: Telecommunications Technology and Education Policy," "How Communication Technologies Enter American Households," "A Public Television Manager's Guide To Fiber Optics and Other New Communication Technologies," and "Interactive Media in the 1990s."

Kenneth R. Carter

Kenneth Carter is a Senior Consultant at wik-Consult GmbH, where he is a key member of the firm's newly formed NGN and Internet Economics Department. The Department advises both private- and public-sector clients on emerging issues or issues of first impression which cross traditionally-defined industries and classifications. Mr. Carter has provided assessments of economics, business strategy and regulatory policy regarding: interconnection; spectrum policy; security; and convergence. As a lawyer-turned-MBA, his work applies the principles and tools of Management Science to the process of regulation and rulemaking. Recently, Mr. Carter has served on an International Advisory Forum on Next Generation Networks in the Republic of Ireland. This body, comprised of senior telecoms executives and policy experts from around the world, has advised Minister Eamon Ryan of the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources on the optimal role of government in promoting the deployment of advanced communications networks. Prior to joining wik-Consult, he was Senior Counsel for Business and Economics in the Office of Strategic Planning at the Federal Communications Commission where he was widely regarded as an expert on license-exempt spectrum and next generation spectrum policy. At the FCC, he was a co-author of the widely cited OSP Working Paper #39, “Unlicensed and Unshackled”. He also co-authored OSP Working Paper #41, “Enhancing Spectrum's Value Through Market-informed Congestion Etiquettes”, using cutting edge experimental economic analysis to develop market-informed radio spectrum policies. Mr. Carter and two other colleagues received the 2007 FCC Excellence in Economic Analysis Award for this work. From 1998 to 2002, he served as the Deputy Director of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI) at Columbia University. In this position, he served as project manager for Prof. Eli Noam’s exhaustive, empirical study evaluating the question whether the American information sector is more or less concentrated since the AT&T divestiture. Mr. Carter holds an Executive MBA from Columbia Business School, a JD from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, and a BA in Economics and Asian Studies from Colgate University. He brings both strong legal analysis and a quantitative approach to media and telecommunications policy.

Douglas A. Conn

Douglas A. Conn is currently Vice President and Senior Analyst, Citibank, NA, working in the media, entertainment and telecommunications industries. He joined CITI in January 1987 as Assistant Director and became Associate Director in 1990. Upon leaving the Institute in 1992, he joined Teleport Communications Group where he was Manager in Corporate Development and Finance. He also has founded and operated a company in the music/video industry. While at the Institute he conducted and published numerous research articles on domestic and international topics in telecommunications and information networks. He is co-editor of "Telecommunications in the Pacific Basin" (Oxford, 1994). Conn holds a BS in Communications from Northwestern University, an MA from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Columbia Business School. He has attended telecommunications programs at Syracuse University of London and at the Annenberg Washington Program.

Mark Cooper

William Drake

William J. Drake is a Senior Associate at the Centre for International Governance of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. Current activities include: co-editor of the MIT Press book series, The Information Revolution and Global Politics; 2009 Vice Chair of the Global Internet Governance Academic Network; a member of the High-Level Group of Advisors to the UN's Global Alliance for ICTs and Development; in ICANN, a member of the GNSO council and of the board of directors of the European At Large Organization; a research fellow of the Institute for Tele-Information at Columbia University; and a member of the editorial boards of the journals, Telecommunications Policy, and Info: The Journal of Policy, Regulation, and Strategy for Telecommunications, Information, and Media. He was a member of the UN's Working Group on Internet Governance. Previous positions held include, inter alia, President of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility; Senior Associate and Director of the Project on the Information Revolution and World Politics at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; founding Associate Director of the Communication, Culture and Technology Program, Georgetown University; Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of California, San Diego; and adjunct professor at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, and at the School of Business, Georgetown University. He has a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University. Some of his publications include: Governing Global Electronic Networks (co-ed., MIT Press, 2008); Reforming Internet Governance (ed., United Nations, 2005); Information and Communications Technology for Peace (co-author, United Nations, 2005); From the Global Digital Divide to the Global Digital Opportunity (World Economic Forum, 2000); Toward Sustainable Competition in Global Telecommunications (Aspen Institute, 1999); Telecommunications in the Information Age (ed., U.S. Information Agency, 1998); and The New Information Infrastructure (ed., Twentieth Century Fund, 1995).

Nicholas S. Economides

Nicholas S. Economides is Associate Professor with the Department of Economics at the Stern Business School at New York University. His current research examines issues of compatibility and standardization, the creation of shared networks, bundling, and vertical and horizontal product differentiation. He has also taught at Columbia and Stanford, and is widely published in academic and trade journals.

Bruce L. Egan

Senior Affiliated Research Fellow

Bruce L. Egan is an economist and Senior Affiliated Research Fellow, Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI), Columbia University, New York. He was appointed by the Governor of Wyoming to the Wyoming Telecommunications Council (2003-2007). The Council objective is to implement a statewide universal broadband access policy. He was a founding Director (1999-2001) and Chairman of the Board of Election.com, an election services company, and co-founder and Director of Everest Communications, a broadband wireless start-up. He was adjunct professor in the Executive MBA Program at Columbia University Graduate School of Business (1996) and from 1996-1998 was Executive Vice President of INDETEC International, a business consulting firm specializing in media and telecommunications. Mr. Egan has over 25 years of experience in economic and policy analysis of telecommunications in both industry and academia. Before joining CITI in 1988, he was an economist at Bellcore since 1983, and at Southwestern Bell Telephone Company from 1976 to 1983. Mr. Egan has published numerous articles in books and journals on telecommunications costing, pricing and public policy. He has been a consultant to several Fortune 500 companies, the U.S. Congress, European Community, United Nations, OECD and others. His research concentration is public policy and economics of technology adoption in telecommunications and he has written two books on the subject titled, Information Superhighways Revisited: The Economics of Multimedia (Artech House, Norwood MA 1997) and Information Superhighways: The Economics of Advanced Communication Networks (1990).

Michael A. Einhorn

Michael A. Einhorn is an economic consultant and testifying expert active in the areas of intellectual property, media, entertainment, licensing, valuation, and antitrust, as well as a professor of corporate entrepreneurship at the Rothman Institute of Entrepreneurial Studies at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey. He authored the book Media, Technology, and Copyright: Integrating Law and Economics (Edward Elgar Publishers), edited three more, researched over fifty professional articles, and lectured in Canada, Great Britain, France, Holland, Germany, Italy, Sri Lanka, China, and Japan.

He has worked at Bell Laboratories, consulted to Argonne National Laboratories, the World Bank, and Telcordia, advised on matters related to wireless technologies, and assisted in litigation related to semiconductors and medical technologies. As a copyright damages expert, he has consulted to inventors, publishers, songwriters, composers, cartoonists, sculptors, photographers, architects, artists, record labels, movie producers. and screenwriters. He has testified, counseled, published articles, or lectured in music rights, fair use, data mining, royalties, damages, hyperlinking, file-sharing, and digital rights management.

He received a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University, served previously on the faculty at Rutgers University, and taught as an adjunct at Columbia, Fordham, and Rutgers Law School.

Ph. (973) 618-1212; email: mae@mediatechcopy.com.

Martin C.J. Elton

Affiliated Researcher

Martin C.J. Elton was Director of the Institute and Visiting Professor at Columbia Business School between July 1987 and January 1990. He has returned to NYU as Professor of Communications in the Tisch School of the Arts where he has taught since 1979, and remains affiliated with the Institute. His research has concentrated primarily on evaluation, planning and policy development for emerging telecommunications and information services. He serves on the editorial board of Telecommunications Policy and was a member of the National Research Council's Subcommittee on Space Communications Research and Development. He has acted as principal investigator of studies sponsored by the National Science Foundation, AT&T, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and many other agencies and corporations in the USA, Canada, and Europe. He has published widely in the field. His books include the edited volumes Integrated Broadband Networks: The Public Policy Issues and Evaluating and Planning New Telecommunications Services.

Valerie Feldmann

Affiliated Researcher

Valerie Feldmann is an associate with McKinsey & Company in New York. Prior to that she has served as a telecom policy consultant at the Strategy and Policy Unit (SPU) of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Geneva, and as an adjunct faculty member at the Free University Berlin. Valerie is a managing editor of the European Communication Council (ECC) as well as a fellow of the Alcatel SEL Foundation. She joined CITI as visiting doctoral fellow in 2000 as a scholar of the Fulbright Commission and the German National Academic Foundation and has served as managing editor for the second Transatlantic Dialogue between CITI and the European Institute for the Media (EIM).

Valerie holds a Master of Science in Business Management and a Master of Art in Media Communications, both from the University of Muenster, Germany, as well as a PhD in Media Communications from the Free University Berlin.

Selected publications:

Feldmann, Valerie (2005): Leveraging mobile media. Cross-media strategy and innovation policy for mobile media communication, Heidelberg: Physica (forthcoming).

European Communication Council (2005): E-merging media. Communication and the media economy of the future. Edited by Axel Zerdick, Arnold Picot, Jean-Claude Burgelman, Roger Silverstone, Valerie Feldmann, Christian Wernick, Carolin Wolff, Berlin: Springer.
http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,1-40109-22-35099401-0,00.html

Feldmann, Valerie/ Muehlfeld, Katrin (Eds.) (2005): Virtual worlds of precision. Computer-based simulations in science and social science, Berlin: Lit (forthcoming).
http://www.lit-verlag.de/isbn/3-8258-6773-0

ITU (2003): Mobile overtakes fixed: implications for policy and regulation. Authored by Valerie Feldmann under the ITU New Initiatives Programme,

ITU (2003): Competition policy in telecommunications. Edited by Valerie Feldmann under the ITU New Initiatives Programme, http://www.itu.int/itudoc/gs/promo/gs/83217.pdf

Feldmann, Valerie (2002): Competitive strategy for media companies in the mobile Internet, in: Schmalenbach Business Review (54), October 2002: pp. 351-371, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=349433

ITU (2002): Asia-Pacific Telecommunication Indicators 2002 http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/publications/asia/2002/flyer.html Feldmann, Valerie (2000): Markenstrategien von TV-Sendern [Branding strategies of TV-channels], Berlin: VfW http://www.kpmg.de/industries/ice/index_3098.htm

Richard L. Field

Affiliated Researcher

Richard L. Field's legal practice encompasses financial systems, electronic commerce law and policy, and emerging technology issues. He is the immediate past chair of the American Bar Association Section of Science & Technology Law, and is past chair of its Electronic Commerce Payment Committee and its Coordinating Committee on International Policy. He was instrumental in establishing relations between the Section and the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE), as well as with the IT/High-tech Legal Committee of the All-China Bar Association. He has chaired the Committee on Banking of the New York County Lawyers' Association, and is a member of the National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists, a joint project of the ABA and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Mr. Field serves on the United States delegation to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, as well as its Working Group on Electronic Commerce. He has been called upon frequently as an expert advisor to the UNCITRAL Secretariat on technology law matters. In addition to assisting the Private International Law Advisory Committee, U.S. Department of State in these areas, Mr. Field has also assisted the European Parliament in its study of electronic payment systems and commerce, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan on issues of network security, the OECD on consumer authentication, and the Korean Institute of Technology and the Law as an International Advisor. He was a participant in the Electronic Commerce Project of the ICC.

A member of the American Law Institute, Mr. Field was an advisor to the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Law project to revise the U.S. payment laws of the Uniform Commercial Code. He co-authored the ABA's Model EDI Payments Agreement (1992) and was a contributor to its Digital Signature Guidelines (1996).

Mr. Field is an Affiliated Research Fellow of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI), and has been an Adjunct Professor of Electronic Finance at Columbia University Graduate School of Business. A former in-house advanced technology and payment counsel at Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company and at Morgan Guaranty Trust Company, Mr. Field holds undergraduate degrees in applied mathematics and engineering from Brown University, and a J.D. from New York University.

Alain de Fontenay

Alain de Fontenay is principal with T.E.L.A. Group where he continues his specialization on the economics of telecommunications. He has also worked at Bellcore, where he was named Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, and the Canadian Government. His present focus is industrial organization applied to network-based firms with an emphasis on the link between the evolution of technology, services, competition, and regulation. He is a board member and co-founder of the International Telecommunications Society (ITS), a member of Communications & Strategies' Scientific Committee, and an associate editor of Information, Economics, and Policy.

John Friedman

John K. Friedman, is president, chief operating officer and a director of Sonus Communication Holdings, Inc., a facilities-based competitive local exchange carrier, long distance carrier and Internet/data services provider headquartered in New York City. Mr. Friedman, began working in the telecommunications industry in 1982 as a cable television plant installer. From 1986-1989, Mr. Friedman joined the Office of the Majority Leader in the New York State Assembly, the Assembly Office of Management and Budget as a data communications analyst for the Assembly's state-wide voice and data network and Century Communications, a large multiple systems cable television operator. During his three year tenure at Century, Mr. Friedman became interested in the telecommunications industry's growth potential which led him to pursue a law degree with a concentration in telecommunications. He received a JD degree from Yeshiva University/Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in 1994. While in law school, Mr. Friedman conducted extensive research into the FCC's licensing practices for emerging telecommunications technologies and published a law journal article on that subject and on personal communications services.

At that time, along with Paul Butler, Mr. Friedman founded Empire One Telecommunications, a switchless reseller of long distance services to targeted ethnic communities in the US, which he served as chairman of the board of directors and CEO. During 1995, Mr. Friedman served as the associate director of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business. At the Institute, he was responsible for the day-to-day operations of the oldest, independent think-tank devoted to issues regarding telecommunications and computing policy, regulation and economics.

Since January 1996, Mr. Friedman has devoted all his time to running Empire One and its successor, Sonus Communication Holdings, Inc. which acquired Empire One in March 2000. At Sonus he is responsible for the overall day-to-day operations of the company and oversees its telecommunications and financial regulatory compliance efforts. He is a Senior Affiliated Research Fellow with the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, and serves on the Telecommunications Law Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Mr. Friedman is a frequent speaker on telecommunications marketing and policy, and also serves as the secretary and treasurer of the board of directors of the Targeted Accessibility Fund of New York. Mr. Friedman holds a BA in political science from the State University of New York at Albany (1986) and JD from the Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University (1994). He is a member of the New York State bar

David Gabel

David Gabel is Associate Professor with the Department of Economics at Queens College. His current research concerns the economics of regulation, cost-allocation procedures, the pricing of telecommunications services, as well as the origin and continued need to regulate the telephone industry. He has worked for the Wisconsin and Massachusetts Public Service Commissions as well as AT&T.

Min Hang

Email: hangmin@tsinghua.edu.cn, min.hang@ihh.hj.se

Min Hang is currently working at the School of Journalism and Communication in Tsinghua University, a premier higher education institute in China. In addition, she is a research associate in the Media Management and Transformation Center (MMTC) of Jönköping University, Sweden. Dr. Hang worked as a director for International Affairs in the Department of International Cooperation of the Ministry of Communications of China, prior to her international move. With over 10 years’ experience on international cooperation, she has great interests in building collaborations between China and international institutions. Dr. Hang holds a Ph.D degree in Business Administration from Jönköping University, Sweden; she also holds master degree of European Business Administration and Business Law from Lund University, Sweden, and master degree of Management Science from Hohai University, China. Her research interests include media management and economics in China, cross-national media management, strategy in the media companies and global market differences in the media industries. In 2006, Dr. Hang worked as a visiting scholar at CITI, where she collaborated with CITI scholars and conducted research on new media management and organizational issues for media business venturing in the transnational media corporations.

Thomas W. Hazlett

Senior Research Associate

Thomas W. Hazlett is Professor of Law & Economics and serves as Director of the Information Economy Project at George Mason University School of Law. He was previously an Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics at UC Davis, teaching economics and public policy. He served as Chief Economist at the FCC, and was a Visiting Fellow at the Institute in 1990-91. Hazlett has conducted extensive research in the area of government regulation and legal institutions, specializing in public policy of broadcasting and cable television. His articles have appeared in numerous journals in the fields of economics, law, regulation, public policy, broadcasting, and electronic media. He is also widely published in a number of general interest periodicals. Hazlett has delivered expert testimony on cable television regulation before governmental bodies and several federal courts, and was awarded the 1990 Wriston/Citicorp Fellowship by the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research.

Andres Hervas-Drane

Andres Hervas-Drane is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics and Business of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and an Affiliated Professor of Barcelona GSE. Dr. Andres specializes in the Economics of Information Technologies, pursuing research on their market impact and strategic implications for business.

Andres was a former Postdoctoral Fellow at CITI, and before joining the Institute pursued research at Harvard University, London Business School, and the Universitat AutÃ?Â²noma de Barcelona. He has conducted research on Internet applications such as file sharing and recommender systems, and their impact on business models and regulatory implications. He has also pursued research on telecommunications policy, with a focus on broadband infrastructure in European markets. His current research continues to analyze how changes in information structures driven by technological change will impact markets and firms.

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Heather Hudson

Visiting Scholar in Residence

Professor Heather E. Hudson is Director of the Telecommunications Management and Policy Program in the School of Business and Management at the University of San Francisco.

Heather received an Honours B.A. in English from the University of British Columbia, M.A. and Ph.D. in Communication Research from Stanford University, and J.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of several books on Telecommunications and published more than 100 articles and presented numerous conference papers and expert testimony on telecommunications applications and domestic and international policy issues.
Heather has planned and evaluated communication projects in northern Canada, Alaska, and more than 50 developing countries in Asia and the Pacific, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. She has also consulted for government agencies, consumer and native organizations, foreign governments, telecommunications companies, and international.

Heather received several scholarships including a Fulbright Distinguished Lectureship for the Asia/Pacific in 1996 and 1997.
Heather is a Governor of the International Council for Computer Communications (ICCC) and has been a member of the board of the Pacific Telecommunications Council and the Telecommunications Policy Research Conference. She serves on the editorial boards of Telecommunications Policy, Space Communications, and the Pacific Telecommunications Review. She has been a member of Advisory Committees of the National Research Council, the Federal Communications Commission, the Department of Commerce and the Office of Technology Assessment, and was a special advisor to the International Commission on Worldwide Telecommunications Development (the Maitland Commission)

John Kasdan

John Kasdan is Lecturer of Law at Columbia's Law School. His teaching specializes in computers and the law, intellectual property, and antitrust issues. His research has concentrated on the economics of intellectual property, antitrust, and complex analysis. Kasdan is currently developing CITI projects on encryption and copyrights.

Michael Koenig

Michael Koenig is professor in the College of Information and Computer Science and Palmer School of Library and Information Science, Long Island University. He was previously Dean and Professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Rosary College in Illinois. He has also taught at Columbia's School of Library Service. His principal research interests concern the impact of information systems upon productivity, and the applications of information retrieval technology and methodology within the business environment. He has published numerous works, including "Information and Information Technology Management: Converging Concerns and Literature" in the Annual Review of Information Science and Technology.

Matthias Kurth

Senior Affiliated Researcher
President, Regulatory Authority for Telecommunications and Posts Germany

Matthias Kurth is the President of the Regulatory Authority for Telecommunications and Posts in Germany. Before joining the Regulatory Authority, he served as Director of New Business Development for COLT Telekom GmbH. He has served as a representative of the state of Hesse in the Regulatory council of posts and Telecommunications, where he participated in the framing of the Telecommunications Act. He began his career as a judge at the Darmstadt Regional Court after studying law and Economics at Frankfurt am Main University, and taking postgraduate legal training in the administration of justice of the state of Hesse.

William H. Lehr

Assistant Professor of Finance and Economics
Faculty Research Associate

William Lehr is research associate in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Previously, Dr. Lehr was the associate director of the MIT Research Program on Internet & Telecoms Convergence, and was an associate research scholar and assistant professor on the faculty of Columbia University 's Graduate School of Business. His current research examines effects of rapid technological change on strategic behavior, compatibility standardization and productivity. His work also addresses microeconomics of industrial organization, regulation and competitive strategy with special attention to the computer, telecommunications and media industries. Lehr holds undergraduate and masters degrees in chemical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business. He received his PhD in economics from Stanford. Major publications and papers include "Quality and Reliability of Telecommunications Infrastructure" (forthcoming), "Standardization: Understanding the Process"; "Journal of the American Society of Information Science", "Voluntary Standard Setting, Institutions and the Allocation of Technical Capabilities", "ISDN and the Small User: Regulatory Policy Issues," with R. Noll, Integrated Broadband Networks: The Public Policy Issues.

Jonathan Liebenau

Jonathan Liebenau is a Reader in Technology Management in the Information Systems and Innovation Group of the Department of Management of the London School of Economics, and head of the research group "Technology Innovation: Management, Economics & Policy."

Dr. Liebenau was a former visiting scholar at CITI and is involved in research projects at the Institute with Dr. James Alleman and Alain Bourdeau de Fontenay. Dr. Liebenau was previously the Director of Industry Studies at the Technical Change Centre, a government-linked think tank in London, and he headed research projects within the Business History Unit and Department of Economic History on high technology industries at LSE. He has conducted research in the area of telecommunications policy, with emphasis on transfer of technology, information infrastructure policy, and regulatory reform and liberalization of the European markets. He has also written on fundamental concepts of information management, as applied to problems such as decision support, temporality and transaction costs. His current research is on concepts of information infrastructure at levels ranging from the organization to national and international cooperative policies.

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Bruce Lincoln

Bruce Lincoln is an educational technologist, a design scientist and a multimedia designer/developer. Bruce is the Founder and Chief Design Scientist of the Urban Cyberspace Company. The Urban Cyberspace Company is a design consulting and marketing firm specializing in broadband Internet technologies. Under the umbrella of Urban Cyberspace, Bruce was responsible for the design of the Internet technologies used in 1400on5th.com, the first smart and green building in Harlem. 1400on5th was open for occupancy on October 8^th, 2004. Currently, Urban Cyberspace is designing wireless broadband networks to be deployed in under served Southern markets.

From 1994 until 2004, Bruce was the Senior Educational Technologist and Manager of Community Outreach at the Institute for Learning Technologies at Teachers College, Columbia University where he managed a ten-year cycle of projects which includes the Harlem Environmental Access Project (1994-96), The Eiffel Project (1996-2001), The Harlem Renaissance 2001 Project (1999-2001), The SmartForce E-Learning Digital Scholarship Fund (2000-2002), The New York Online Neighborhood Educational Network Project (2000-2003), and which culminated in the New York City Community Technology Center Bank Project (2001-2004). From 1998 through 2001, under the Clinton Administration, Bruce served as a member of the PITAC, the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee and as an advisor to the White House.

Michael MacPhee

Gary Madden

Professor Madden’s primary research area is the economic modeling of electronic networks. Within this gambit his particular research fields encompass theoretically motivated short time-series forecasting, the economics of disruptive technologies, digital divide issues, network externalities and Internet evolution, and the welfare impact of economic growth. He is the author of 78 peer-reviewed publications in these fields since 1993 and has attracted over $1m to the University for his research since 1994. In particular, Gary is Chief Investigator on four ARC Discovery Project (Large) grants since 1998. He is a consultant to government and a Member of the Board of Directors of the International Telecommunications Society. Gary is currently Associate Editor of the International Journal of Management and Network Economics, and Editorial Board Member of The Open Communication Science Journal and the Journal of Media Economics. Gary is a Member of the Scientific Council of Communications & Strategies. Professor Madden spent 2006 at The Columbia Institute for Tele-Information as a visiting scholar.

Thomas McKnight

Affiliated Research Fellow

Thomas McKnight is a developer of telecommunications and media business with credentials as an engineer, registered financial consultant, and a licensed attorney specializing in entrepreneurial enterprises. From 1982-1986, Mr. McKnight was CEO of Orion Satellite Corporation, a firm he co-founded to compete with Intelsat. He was part of the founding teams at USA TODAY and the start-up PTAT system, a privately owned transatlantic fiber optic submarine cable that he sold to U.S. Sprint. He has staff experience in telecommunications and media policy-making with the White House and the FCC. He has also participated in other entrepreneurial ventures in Bulgaria, China, Czech Republic, Hungary, Kuwait and Poland.

Stephen Messer

Affiliated Research Fellow

Stephen Messer joined the Institute in 1996. He received a B.A. in Government and Law with a minor in history from Lafayette College graduating a Phi Alpha Theta Scholar. He received a Juris doctorate from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Prior to coming to the Institute he served for the United States Mission to the United Nations on the sixth committee and closed sessions of the Security Council during the Forty-Ninth General Assembly. His studies and work dealt with the growth of the Internet for three years prior to joining the Institute. He directed the Virtual Institute of Information until April 1997. His current project is Link Share.

Áine M NíShúilleabháin

Affiliated Research Fellow

Áine NíShúilleabháin's research focuses on modeling term structures of defaultable bonds, and on continuous-time diffusion processes that capture predictability in the underlying. She is currently working on three papers : Interest Rates As Options : the Question of Social Cost (Financial Accelerator Revisited); Debt and Equity Valuation in General Equilibrium with Dynamically Incomplete Markets; Pricing Technology Assets : A Multi-Sector Stochastic Growth Model with Dynamic Bandwidth Trading. She is former Director, Quantitative and Credit Analytics of a large British bank where she led quantitative modeling and pricing of credit risk, as well as risk management at the portfolio level. As CITI's Associate Director she published several academic articles on telecommunications, analyst reports on technology (McGraw-Hill/Northern Business Information), and co-edited the volume Private Networks, Public Objectives (Elsevier Science Press, 1996). Áine holds degrees from Dublin University, the University of Pennsylvania, Insead, and the London School of Economics.

Lorenzo Pupillo

Affiliated Researcher

Dr. Lorenzo Maria Pupillo is an Executive Director in the Public Affairs Unit of Telecom Italia and Affiliated Researcher at Columbia Institute for Tele-Information. In Telecom Italia, he is in charge of the Economics of Public Strategies. He is an economist by training and has worked in many areas of telecommunications demand and regulatory analysis, publishing papers in applied econometrics and industrial organization. He has also been Advisor to the Global Information and Communication Technologies Department of the World Bank in Washington and adjunct Professor of Economics of ICTs at University of Rome, La Sapienza. Before joining Telecom Italia in 1992, he was member of technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. He earned a Ph.D. and an M.A. from University of Pennsylvania, an MBA from Instituto Adriano Olivetti in Ancona Italy and a MS in Mathematics from University of Rome.

Paul Rappoport

Paul Rappoport is Associate Professor of Economics at Temple University. He has over 25 years of experience in data analysis, modeling and statistical assessment, with a specialization in telecommunications demand analysis. He was responsible for the development of Bill Harvestingä, a national database of actual communications bills, a small business panel - which focuses on telecommunications and energy - and a large consumer national telecommunication database. His current research work is focused on modeling Internet demand, network externalities and competitive analysis. He received his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University in 1974.

David J. Salant

David Salant is a founder of Optimal Markets, Incorporated. Dr. Salant has held faculty and research positions at GTE Laboratories, Incorporated, Bell Laboratories, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and the State University of New York at Buffalo. He was previously a Senior Vice President in the Telecommunications Practice at National Economic Research Associates and a Managing Director in the Telecommunication and Auction Practice at the Law and Economics Consulting Group. At GTE Labs and also more recently at the Math Science Research Center of Bell Labs, Dr. Salant was engaged in developing economic simulation models of wireless networks. He recently edited a special issue of The Journal of Regulatory Economics on Auctions and Regulation. His publications include "Auctions and Regulation: Reengineering of Regulatory Mechanisms," introduction to special issue on Auctions and Regulation, Journal of Regulatory Economics, and "Up in the Air: GTE's Experience in The MTA Auction for PCS Licenses." Journal of Economics and Management Strategy.

He has over 15 years of telecommunications experience. He has been the primary bid strategist for winning bidders in spectrum auctions in Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Mexico, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States. He has also assisted regulatory agencies in Australia, Canada, Colombia, Guatemala, Israel, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Peru, Singapore and the United States in the design and implementation of spectrum auctions.

He has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Rochester with a concentration in Game Theory, and an A.B. in Economics and Mathematics, Magna Cum Laude from Washington University.

Michael Salinger

Michael Salinger is Associate Professor at Boston University. He is a leading expert on the economics of cable television. His research on cable television has covered such topics as the effects of vertical integration between cable networks and cable operators, the effects of cable deregulation, and the prospects for competition between cable and telephone companies. He has published articles in the Micro-Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, and The Rand Journal.

Jorge Reinan Schement

Jorge Reinan Schement is Associate Professor at the School of Communication, Information, and Library Science at Rutgers University. He received a Fulbright Research Grant in the summer of 1986 to study patterns of distribution for information occupations and information workers in Finland. His books include Telecommunications Policy Handbook; Competing Visions, Complex Realities; Social Aspects of the Information Society; Between Communications and Tendecies and Tensions of the Information Age.

Harumasa Sato

Affiliated Researcher

Harumasa Sato is Professor of Economics at Konan University in Kobe, Japan. He teaches applied micro-economics, the economics of regulation, and telecommunications economics. He is a former Fulbright Scholar, and visited MIT's Department of Economics during 1989-90. As the Institute's Representative in Japan, Sato is the liaison between the Institute and Japanese universities, companies, and government, and assists CITI research on Japanese and Pacific Basin telecommunications. He is currently a Visiting Scholar at CITI, and was previously in the years 1994-1995, and 1990.

J.H. Snider

J.H. Snider is a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy, located at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and the President of iSolon.org, a non-profit institute whose purpose is to bring paradigm changing ideas on the policy implications of new information technologies to the fore of public discussion. In 2001 he co-founded the Spectrum Policy Program at the New America Foundation, a Washington-DC-based think tank, where he served as a fellow and research director from 2001-2007. Prior to that, he was an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow in Communications and Public Policy, a University Fellow at Northwestern University, and Senior Research Assistant at the Harvard Business School. His works on information policy include Future Shop: How New Technologies Will Change the Way We Shop and What We Buy (St. Martin?s, 1992), the Citizen’s Guide to the Airwaves (New America Foundation 2003), and The Art of Spectrum Lobbying: America's $480 Billion Spectrum Giveaway, How it Happened, and How to Prevent it from Recurring (New America Foundation 2007). He holds a Ph.D. in American Government from Northwestern University, an MBA from the Harvard Business School, and an AB from Harvard College.

Dan Steinbock

Dan Steinbock is Visiting Virtual Professor at the Department of Management and Organization, and Department of Marketing at the Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration (HSEBA). His research focuses on dynamic strategy, marketing and globalization.

Johannes Tyrell

Joost van Dreunen

Joost van Dreunen studies video games as an entryway into contemporary media culture. His academic work focuses on the intersection between user-created game modifications and online communities. Joost is an affiliate researcher at the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, a member of the Center for Organizational Innovation and the founder of the New York chapter for the Digital Games Research Association.

Outside academia Joost is involved in a variety of projects, and works as a games analyst for companies such as DFC Intelligence and Nielsen Online. He is currently in the midst of a report on the business models of online game portals.

Joost lives in New York with his wife Janelle, and maintains a blog at www.waffler.org

Harold Vogel

Affiliated Researcher

Harold L. Vogel is the author of Entertainment Industry Economics: A Guide for Financial Analysis (Fifth Edition) and of the companion volume, Travel Industry Economics: A Guide for Financial Analysis, both published by Cambridge University Press in 2001. He was ranked as top entertainment industry analyst for a record ten years by Institutional Investor magazine and was the senior entertainment industry analyst at Merrill Lynch for seventeen years. A chartered financial analyst (C.F.A.), Mr. Vogel served on the New York State Governor's Motion Picture and Television Advisory Board and as an adjunct professor of media economics at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business. He is currently a venture capitalist and fund manager specializing in early stage investments in media and entertainment and aviation and is based in New York. He is also a corporate director of NearWare Networks and Cavalcade Media and is on the advisory board of Rightsline, Inc. and several other companies.

Len Waverman

Timothy Wendt

Affiliated Research Fellow

Timothy Wendt is a former Director of Industry Analysis for New York State Industrial Cooperation Council, where he designed and organized economic development strategies for New York's telecommunications and electronic industries. Wendt is author of the Commission Studies: Giving Up the Edge: The US Telecommunications Industry in International Competition; America's Steel Industry: A Time to Act, and several related publications. Wendt is former Executive Director of a PBS Television and radio affiliate. He completed his undergraduate degree from Brown University and received his graduate degree from the Columbia University School of International Affairs.

Alex Wolfson

Alex Wolfson manages corporate strategy’s WorldMap project, Nokia’s views on the future of converging digital industries. Prior to Nokia, Alex was a management consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton and the Associate Director of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, a
telecom/media/Internet think tank. He also helped to build and launch the first real-time IP bandwidth exchange company, InvisibleHand Networks. His publications include Globalism and Localism in Telecommunications (Co-Editor), The Role of Wireless Communications in the Public Network (Telecommunications Policy Guest Editor), U.S. Value Added Network Services Markets 1996, and Global Value Added Network Services Markets 1995 (co-author). Alex holds Bachelor's degrees in economics and communication research from Wharton and the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA in Finance with honors from Columbia Business School.

Tal Zarsky

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