Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy
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The Digital Economy in International Perspective:
Common Construction or Regional Rivalry
The Willard Inter-Continental Washington
Washington, D.C.
May 27, 1999
Speaker Bios Don Abelson In October 1998, Ambassador Barshefsky, the U.S. trade representative, appointed Mr. Abelson to the position of Assistant U.S. Trade Representative and assigned him the responsibility of covering issues related to basic industries and communications (including electronic commerce). Previously, as the Chief Negotiator for Communications and Information, he led USTR's effort to facilitate global electronic commerce over the Internet. In May 1998, Mr. Abelson's efforts resulted in adoption by the 132 members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) of a declaration on the duty-free treatment of the Internet. This achievement follows on his success in leading the U.S. Government team that negotiated the WTO basic telecommunications agreement.From 1994 through its successful conclusion in February 1997, Mr. Abelson headed the U.S. delegation to the WTO talks that resulted in a precedent-setting agreement on basic telecommunications in which 70 countries made commitments on local, long-distance and international services delivered by wire, wireless and satellite technologies.
Mr. Abelson also served as the Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Services, Investment and Intellectual Property in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR). In that position, he advised Ambassador Mickey Kantor on issues concerning investment, the trade in services and the trade aspects of intellectual property rights protection.
His accomplishments include participating in the conclusion of the Uruguay Round of trade talks in December 1993, negotiating numerous "bilateral investment treaties" (BITs) and ensuring for the success of USTR's "special 301" intellectual property initiatives. Mr. Abelson has also taken the lead in the Administration on resolving U.S.-EU audiovisual trade issues.
During his nearly twenty years at USTR, Mr. Abelson has served as the Deputy USTR in Latin America office, as well as the point person on U.S.-Mexican trade issues during the lead up to the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Prior to that, he spent a decade as USTR's foremost negotiator on standards-related trade issues (which included work on Japanese and European bilateral trade issues).
Mr. Abelson earned his Masters Degree in International Economics from The John Hopkins' University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in 1975, after being graduated with a Bachelor's Degree from Sarah Lawrence College in 1972.
François Bar Francois Bar comes to Stanford from the Department of Communication at the University of California at San Diego. He received his Ph.D. in city and regional planning from University of California at Berkeley (1990). His dissertation "Configuring the Telecommunications Infrastructure for the Computer Age: the Economics of Network Control" won the 1989-90 Doctoral Award from the International Center for Information Technologies. He has studied at Harvard's J.F. Kennedy School of Government and he holds a Diplome d'Ingenieur from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chausees (ENPC), Paris, France.His current research interests include comparative telecommunication policy, economic and social dimensions of computer networking, new media and the internet. His research has been published in books of collected studies, in policy reports, and in such journals as Telecommunication Policy, Communications & Strategies, Research, and the International Journal of Technology Management. Since 1983, he has been a member of the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE), at UC Berkeley, where he served as program director for research on telecommunications policy and information networking.
David BeierOn April 10, 1998, David W. Beier joined the Office of the Vice-President as Mr. Gore’s Chief Domestic Policy Advisor. In that role, Mr. Beier advises the Vice-President on a broad range of domestic issues, with a focus on the economy, technology, telecommunications, health care and crime.
Since 1989, Beier had been serving as Vice president of the Government affairs office at Genentech, in Washington, D.C. During his tenure with Genentech, he worked on various issues related to the biotechnology industry such as the extension of the R&D Tax Credit, the 1995 Biotech Process Patent Bill, and the Orphan Drug Act—in which, he made efforts to modernize the drug approval process of the Food and Drug Administration. His knowledge and direction regarding intellectual property and FDA reform made him a leader in the industry.
Before he joined Genentech, Mr. Beier was counsel to the Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives, for ten years. He was significantly responsible for legislation protecting intellectual property rights and trademark law reform. He was a key player in the drafting and passing the Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act of 1984 and patent Law Amendments of 1984m as well as most other intellectual property legislation between 1981-1989. He is highly regarded as an expert on the legislative process.
Prior, Mr. Beier worked as an attorney for New York State in the criminal justice system as Assistant Counsel for the Committee on Sentencing. Early in his career, he worked as a legal services attorney engaged in law reform litigation.
David Beier has co-authored several publications relating to intellectual property including: The Biotechnology Process Patent Act; International Trade and Intellectual Property: Promise, Risk, and Reality; and Protection of United States Process Patents. In addition, he has co-authored communications’ publications such as the Electronic Communications Privacy Act and Communications Privacy.
Mr. Beier has a B.A. from Colgate University and received his Juris Doctorate from Albany Law School. He was born in Albany, New York and lived and attended high school outside Detroit, Michigan.
Michael BorrusMichael Borrus is Managing Director of Pektevich & Partners, LLC, a San Francisco-based start-up pioneering a new investment-banking business model. Prior to Petkevich & Partners, Mr. Borrus was a Co-Director of the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE) at the University of California at Berkeley, Adjunct Professor in the College of Engineering and a partner in Industry and Trade Strategies, a consultancy.
He is the author of two books and over 60 chapters, articles and monographs on a variety of topics including high-technology competition, international trade and investment, and business strategies in information technology. He has served as consultant to a variety of governments and firms in the U.S., Asia and Europe.
For 15 years, Professor Borrus has combined extensive knowledge of international competition in telecommunications and information technology with detailed analyses of the evolution of regional and national markets in Asia, the US and Europe. He has published numerous comparative analyses of telecom liberalization and market competition in Japan , the US, and the EU. On Japan alone, he has authored over 20 books, book chapters, articles and working papers. His telecom clients have included among many others, in the public sector, the OECD, the EEC, the US Congress, Japan's Ministry of Finance, the Japan Development Bank, and the Korean Ministry of Communications, and, in the private sector, Air Touch, ATT (incl. Lucent), France Telecom, Fujitsu, Motorola, Samsung, Sun Microsystems and Teledanmark.
Mr. Borrus is a graduate of Harvard Law School and a member of the California State Bar.
Stephen CohenStephen S. Cohen is Professor of Regional Planning at the University of California at Berkeley where he is also co-director, and co-founder of the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE). Since its founding in 1982 BRIE has become an internationally recognized source of new ideas and information on advanced technology, international competition and cooperation and economic competitiveness and development. Professor Cohen’s books include: The New Global Economy in the Information Age (with Manuel Castells and Fernando Henrique Cardoso, who is now President of Brazil), Manufacturing Matters (with John Zysman), Reading Our Times (with Peter Drucker, Michael Boskin and J.K. Galbraith), Modern Capitalist Planning: The French Model, and most recently, The Tunnel at the End of the Light: Privatization in Russia (with Andy Schwartz). His articles have appeared in such diverse publications as SCIENCE, Foreign Affairs, the Harvard Business Review, The Journal of Asian Economics, Asian Survey, The New York Times, The American Economic Review, Revue de l’Economie Industrielle, IEEE Spectrum, Technology Review, The American Prospect, Les Temps Modernes, Le Monde, El Pais, The California Management Review.
He has served as an advisor to the White House, several committees of the US Congress, the U.S. National Laboratories, the governments of France, Spain, China, Columbia and Denmark, the U.N., and the OECD, as well as many companies in the U.S., Japan, and Europe.
Peter Cowhey Peter Cowhey is a Professor at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He has published extensively on the regulation of international communications markets, international trade policy, and comparative national regulatory policies. His books include: When Countries Talk—International Trade in Telecommunications Services; Managing the World Economy—The Consequences of Corporate Alliances; and Structure and Policy in Japan and the United States.From 1994 through 1997 Prof. Cowhey served at the International Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission. He initially was the Bureau’s Senior Counselor for International Economic and Competition Policy. In 1997 he became the Chief of the International Bureau. Among his principal duties at the FCC he served as adviser to the Chairman of the FCC on the successful World Trade Organization negotiations on basic telecommunications services. He also oversaw the development of the Commission’s new policies on competition on international telecommunications services and accounting rates.
Prof. Cowhey also has consulted extensively for the private and public sectors. During the past two years he has served on an advisory panel to the ITU Secretary General on international accounting rates and has written a report for the World Bank on the introduction of competition in telecommunications services. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Pacific Council on International Relations, and the Trilateral Forum on China-Japan-U.S. economic relations.
Don CruickshankAfter an early career in finance and marketing project work with Alcan and consultancy with McKinsey, Don became Commercial Director of Times Newspapers and then General Manager of the Sunday Times. From there he became Managing Director (Finance, Administration and Planning) of the Information and Entertainment division of Pearson plc (which included the Financial Times, Goldcrest, Longman, Penguin and Westminster Press in its portfolio). In 1984 he moved to Virgin Group as Managing Director and in 1989 he became Chief Executive of the NHS in Scotland. In 1993 he returned to London as Director General of OFTEL until 1998. From late 1997 Don became Chairman of Action 2000, the UK Government’s Millennium Bug campaign. He is Chairman of the Government’s UK Banking Review.
J. Bradford De LongBrad De Long is Professor of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley. He is also Co-Editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
Professor De Long served in the U.S. government as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy from 1993 to 1995, where he worked on the Clinton Administration's 1993 budget, on the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, on the North American Free Trade Agreement, on macroeconomic policy, on the unsuccessful health care reform effort, and on many other issues.
Before joining the Treasury Department he was Danziger Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Harvard University. He has also been a John M. Olin Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, an Assistant Professor of Economics at Boston University, and a Lecturer in the Department of Economics at M.I.T.
He has written on, among other topics, the evolution and functioning of the U.S. and other nations' stock markets, the course and determinants of long-run economic growth, the making of economic policy, the changing nature of the American business cycle, and the history of economic thought.
Recent publications include "Keynesianism Pennsylvania-Avenue Style" (Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1996), "In Defense of Mexico's Rescue" (Foreign Affairs, 1996; co-authored with Christopher DeLong and Sherman Robinson), "Princes and Merchants: European City Growth before the Industrial Revolution" (Journal of Law and Economics 1993; co-authored with Andrei Shleifer), "The Marshall Plan: History's Most Successful Structural Adjustment Programme" (in R. Dornbusch et al., eds.,Postwar Economic Reconstruction and Lessons for the East, Cambridge: M.I.T., 1993; co-authored with Barry Eichengreen), "Productivity and Machinery Investment: A Long-Run Look, 1870-1980" (Journal of Economic History, June 1992), "The Stock Market Bubble of 1929: Evidence from Closed-End Funds"(Journal of Economic History, September 1991; co-authored with Andrei Shleifer), and "Equipment Investment and Economic Growth" (Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 1991; co-authored with Lawrence Summers).
Professor De Long has taught finance, macroeconomics, economic history, and social theory. He has also spent three years (1988-1991) in part-time academic administration responsible for Harvard University's undergraduate programs in Economics, as Head Tutor of the Department of Economics.
He holds a Ph.D. (1987), an M.A. (1984), and a B.A. summa cum laude (1982) from Harvard University.
John Dryden John Dryden has been the Head of the Information, Computer and Communications Policy Division since January 1993. He joined the Directorate in 1987, and has held a number of other positions, including Head of the EAS Division. Between 1980 and 1987, he worked in the Economics and Statistics Department of the OECD. Before joining the OECD, he worked in the Cabinet Office of the U.K. government. A United Kingdom citizen, he was educated at Oxford University and the University of Wales.
Stuart FeldmanFeldman did his academic work (AB, Princeton and PhD, MIT) in astrophysics and mathematics. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the ACM. He has been a member of the Board of the Computing Research Association and chair of ACM SIGPLAN and is founding chair of the new ACM SIG on E-Commerce.
He was a computer science researcher at Bell Labs and a research manager at Bellcore before joining IBM in mid-1995. He has published research in software engineering, programming languages, scientific computing and other areas of computer science. He was also architect for a large new line of software products at Bellcore.
At IBM’s T. J. Watson Research Center, Feldman leads a department doing research in a wide variety of network-related technologies and application enablers, including parallel databases, e-commerce, pervasive computing, anti-virus, and advanced multimedia. He is also the Director of IBM’s Institute for Advanced Commerce, an organization created to increase IBM’s connections to the outside research world as well as to accelerate creation of new technologies for support of e-Business.
Dennis GilhoolyDenis Gilhooly is Information Infrastructure Adviser at the World Bank, based in Washington D.C. Before joining the World Bank he was Vice President, Business Development at Teledesic LLC, the "Internet-in-the-Sky" satellite venture backed by Craig McCaw and Bill Gates. He was also previously Media & Technology Director at The Wall Street Journal, as well as founding Editor and Publisher of CommunicationsWeek International and The Networked Economy Conferences. He is a founding Commissioner of the Global Information Infrastructure Commission and a Member of the Irish government’s Telecommunications Advisory Committee.
Peter HarterMr. Harter is Global Public Policy Counsel for Netscape Communications Corporation, of Mountain View, California. Mr. Harter is responsible for Internet law and policy issues and strategy as well as traditional government affairs matters. Since joining Netscape in November of 1995, Mr. Harter has dealt with a variety of issues ranging from the Communications Decency Act of the 1996 Telecommunications Act to securities litigation reform. Currently, he is actively engaged in modernizing government controls on encryption technology in the US and overseas, copyright issues, privacy, and competition. Mr. Harter regularly supports Netscape's technical standards activities as well as its education technology marketing and community relations efforts. Other issues of concern include telecommunications, interoperability, domain name management, Internet governance, infrastructure expansion, and content control. His work encompasses local, state, national, and international activities. He regularly works with executive, legislative and industry officials in the US government as well as Canada, UK, France, Germany, the European Commission, Australia, Japan, and various UN chartered organizations in Geneva.
In March of 1995, prior to joining Netscape, Mr. Harter garnered interest from others in industry to start forming a legal analog to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF): the Internet Law and Policy Forum (ILPF). Today the ILPF has organized into an ad hoc body of over twenty companies focusing their efforts on developing open draft legal standards for a variety of Internet law issues.
Mr. Harter graduated from Villanova Law School (].D.) in 1993 and from Lehigh University (B.A. Rhetoric and Government) in 1990.
Martin KenneyMartin Kenney is a professor of Human and Community Development at the University of California, Davis and Senior Project Director for the E-conomy Project at the Berkeley Roundtable for the International Economy. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1984 and taught at Ohio State University for 5 years before moving to UC Davis. His research topics include high technology business in Silicon Valley, the role of venture capital in regional economic development, and new firm formation in the Internet business space. He is the author of three books: Beyond Mass Production: the Japanese System and Its Transfer to the US (Oxford 1993), The Breakthrough Illusion (Basic 1990), and Biotechnology: The University-Industrial Complex (Yale 1986). Currently, he is completing a book on the U.S. venture capital industry and is the editor of Anatomy of Silicon Valley (forthcoming, Stanford University Press). He has published over 80 scholarly articles in journals and edited books. He has been a visiting professor at Hitotsubashi University, Osaka City University, Kobe University, University of Tokyo, and the Copenhagen Business School.
Jiro KokuryoDr. Jiro Kokuryo is an associate professor of Keio University's Graduate School of Business Administration, as well as the director of the Electronic Commerce Research Project. He combines his professional experience in telecommunications with his academic training to implement studies on the computer networks' impact on businesses. Most recently, his study focuses on the emergence of new internet based business models. He publishes extensively in and out of Japan.
Dr. Kokuryo graduated from The University of Tokyo with a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics (1982). After working for Nippon Telegraph and Telephone as a strategy analyst, he studied at Harvard Business School where he earned a Masters Degree in Business Administration (1988) and a Doctorate of Business Administration (1992).
Public functions he served include chairman of CI-NET (construction industry EDI standard setting organization), chief of Ministry of International Trade and Industry's task force on the assessment of the impacts of electronic commerce, as well as a member of MITI's Industrial Structure Council.
Mark KvammeMark serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of USWeb/CKS, a 2700-person internet professional services company. He joined CKS Group in 1989 and served as Chairman of the Company's Board of Directors, President and Chief Executive Officer from 1991 until the merger with USWeb in December 1998.
At CKS, Mark directed the growth and expansion of the company, which became one of the largest and best-recognized internet professional services companies. Before joining CKS, Mark was Director of International Marketing for Wyse Technology, a terminal and PC clone manufacturer, from 1986 to 1989. Before joining Wyse, Mark founded and served as President and Chief Executive Officer of International Solutions, a global distributor of hardware and software products, from 1984 to 1986. While at Apple Computer between 1980 and 1984, Mark held various management positions in international sales and marketing and in product development, and was a founding member of Apple France. Mark holds a B.A. in French Economics and Literature from the University of California at Berkeley.
Mark serves on the boards of USWeb/CKS (USWB) and Macromedia (MACR), as well as on those of several private companies.
Erika MannMs. Erika Mann has been a Member of the European Parliament since 1994.
Ms. Mann is a Member of the Committee on External Economic Relations. As rapporteur for transatlantic economic and trade relations she is primarily responsible for the WTO, GATT, TRIPS and the relations between the EU, the U.S. and Canada (New Transatlantic Agenda and Transatlantic Business Dialogue) as well as Central and Eastern European Countries (esp. Ukraine). Most recent reports concern the Agreement between the European Communities and the Government of Canada regarding the application of their competition laws and the Transatlantic Economic Partnership.
Ms. Mann is also a Member in the Committee on Economic, Monetary Affairs and Industrial Policy where she concentrates on issues regarding telecommunication policy, information society (esp. universal service, electronic commerce, data security, intellectual property rights), competition policy, industrial policy and policies concerning SMEs. Her working document on electronic commerce and indirect taxation has recently been published.
Moreover, Ms. Mann is president of the Parliamentary delegation for relations with Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova.
Among Ms. Mann’s various commitments we find chairmanship in the Transatlantic Policy Network (TPN), membership of the board in the Information Society Forum of the European Commission as well as membership of the Steering Committee of Europa XXI, the Leadership Network for European Networked Society.
Elliot MaxwellElliot E. Maxwell is presently Special Advisor to the Secretary of Commerce for the Digital Economy. He provides advice to the Secretary on, and is responsible for the coordination of, Commerce Department activities regarding issues involving electronic commerce and the Internet. These include, among others, privacy, consumer protection, increasing access to bandwidth, establishing a legal framework for electronic commerce, and the impact of electronic commerce on other aspects of the economy. He has participated in the U.S. Government’s Interagency Working Group on Electronic Commerce since its beginning.
Prior to joining the Department of Commerce, he served at the Federal Communications Commission as Deputy Chief of the Office of Plans and Policy, Deputy Chief of the Office of Science and Technology, and Special Assistant to the Chairman. He also previously served as Counsel to the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Activities. He worked in the private sector for a number of years as a consultant and as Assistant Vice President for Corporate Strategy of Pacific Telesis Group where he combined business, technology, and public policy planning.
Mr. Maxwell graduated from Brown University and Yale University Law School. He has written and spoken widely on issues involving electronic commerce, telecommunications, and technology policy.
Helen McDonaldHelen McDonald is the Director General of Policy Development for Industry Canada’s Electronic Commerce Task Force, responsible for policies that promote consumer and business trust in electronic commerce.
Recent accomplishments include managing the development of Canadian privacy legislation, now before the House of Commons awaiting third reading. Bill c-54, which sets rules for the collection, use and disclosure of personal information in commercial activities, couples the Canadian Standards Association national privacy standard with an independent oversight regime.
Helen McDonald also chaired the federal government working group that produced the Canadian cryptography policy. Announced by the Minister of Industry on October 1st 1998, it confirms freedom of choice in the use, import and development of cryptography products and services within Canada.
Regis McKennaMcKenna, 58, is responsible for helping to launch some of the most important technological innovations of the last twenty six years including the first microprocessor (Intel Corporation), the first personal computer (Apple Computer), the first recombinant DNA genetically engineered product (Genentech, Inc.), and the first retail computer store (The Byte Shop). Other first-time technology marketing efforts he participated in include the first commercial laser for retail systems, the first computer local area network, the first electronic spreadsheet, the first operating system for personal computers, the first mini super computer and the first desktop publishing system.
McKenna has worked with a number of entrepreneurial start-ups during their early formation years including: America Online, Apple, Businessland, Compaq, Electronic Arts, Genentech, Intel, Linear Technology, Lotus, Microchip, Microsoft, National Semiconductor, Sequent, Silicon Graphics, 3COM, Tandem, and many others. In the last decade, McKenna has consulted on strategic marketing and business issues to many of the largest technology-based firms in the United States, Japan, and Europe. McKenna continues to be involved in high tech start up companies through his venture activities.
In 1985, McKenna wrote the first book devoted to the marketing of high technology companies — The Regis Touch. Now translated into nine languages, the book elucidates McKenna's marketing theories and strategies. His second book, released in February 1989 and translated into six languages, entitled Who's Afraid of Big Blue?, examines how companies are challenging IBM and winning. In January 1992, his third book was released entitled Relationship Marketing. It focused on the interactive relationships vital to market acceptance in today's "Age of the Customer." His latest book, Real Time, Preparing For the Age of the Never Satisfied Customer, was published by Harvard Business School Press in September 1997. This book explores what it means to do business in an environment of vanishing time and space, or the "real time world."
McKenna left National Semiconductor in 1970 to start his own marketing strategy company. Today, The McKenna Group provides management and marketing consulting services worldwide.
Niels Christian NielsonNiels Christian Nielsen is the Executive Vice President of DTI, a private industrial research and consultancy with more than 1.000 employees, based in Denmark, but with European wide activities.
Mr. Nielson is chairman of: 2M Invest, a venture capital firm with offices in Copenhagen, San Francisco, and Taipei; MouseHouse, a leading internet and e-commerce company; ChaosManagement, and trendsetter in new organizational and HRD concepts; The Electronic Research Library; and The LearningLab. He is on the board of companies such as: Ireco ab, the holding company of 17 Swedish industrial labs; and Hofman & Bang, Denmark's largest and leading IPR agents.
He has previously worked in the private sector, academic world, with Government institutions and in International Agencies. He came to DTI as manager of the computer science and technology department, and has a long record working with IT strategy and policy issues related to IT. He has served on numerous Danish government committees and has been a central figure in shaping policies over the last 10 years. He has functioned as advisor for more than 20 national governments around the world.
Mr. Nielson has written extensively and is a frequent speaker around the world on knowledge and competence development, new business dynamics, SME networking, and on strategy and technology.
Neil Christian Nielson’s original background was in philosophy.
Erkki OrmalaDr. Ormala was born 1950. He has his M.Eng. degree in 1974 and his Dr.Tech. degree in 1986 from the Helsinki University of Technology.
He worked as a research engineer at the Technical Research Centre of Finland 1974-1987. In 1976 he was a visiting scholar at Stanford University in the USA and in 1982 at the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis in Austria.
From 1987-1999 he was the secretary of the Science and Technology Policy Council of Finland. The Council is chaired by the Prime Minister with the task to give advice to the Government and administration in issues related to science, technology and innovation policies. In 1999 he joined the Nokia Group as a director, technology policy. At Nokia his responsibilities cover technology policy, knowledge management, university co-operation, future watch and issues relating to information society.
He has published over forty papers on evaluation and innovation policies. He has been a consultant to a number of industrial companies, international organisations and European governments. In 1992-1993 he chaired the international expert group which carried out the evaluation of EUREKA. Since 1994 he has been a member of the evaluation and monitoring panels of a number of the EU RT&D programmes. 1996-1999 he was the chairman of the OECD Working Group for Technology and Innovation Policy.
Patricia PaolettaPatricia Paoletta is Vice President, Government Affairs of Level 3 Communications. She came to Level 3 from the Hill, having served as majority telecommunications Counsel with the House Commerce Committee. As majority counsel, she was responsible for providing telecommunications policy and legislative advice to the Chairman and the Members of the House Commerce Committee and the Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade and Consumer Protection.
She joined the Commerce Committee staff 1996 Executive Office of the President, where she served as the Director of Telecommunications Trade Policy at the Office of U.S. Trade Representative. At USTR, she was responsible for negotiating and enforcing telecommunication trade agreements in both multilateral and bilateral fora, and providing telecom policy advice to USTR. While at USTR, Ms. Paoletta engaged in bilateral telecom negotiations with Japan, China and Korea, implementation of the telecom previsions of NAFTA, and in groups addressing telecommunications policy in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation and the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas fora. Ms. Paoletta also provided policy guidance for the WTO negotiations on basic telecom.
Before going to USTR, Ms. Paoletta spent five years at the Federal Communications Commission, most recently as Senior Legal Advisor to the International Bureau Chief, and prior to that, as Senior Attorney in the Office of International Communications. In these positions, Ms. Paoletta was responsible for providing legal advice to the Commission on International Services Regulation and representing the FCC on domestic communications issues in international policy and trade fora.
Prior to serving in government, Ms. Paoletta was associated with the law firm Nixon, Hargrave, Devans & Doyle for several years (now merged with the firm of Peabody Brown), where she worked for the firm's communications clients, including local exchange carriers, satellite services providers, cable operators and telecommunications providers.
Ms. Paoletta received her Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center in 1988 and her Bachelor of Arts from Boston College in 1984.
Robert Pepper Robert Pepper has been Chief of the Office of Plans and Policy (OPP) at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) since December 1989. Under Pepper's leadership, OPP is responsible for policy questions that cut across traditional industry and institutional boundaries, especially those arising from the development of new technologies. At OPP, Pepper's responsibilities have included leading teams implementing provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996; assessing the development of the Internet; designing and implementing the first spectrum auctions in the United States; developing more market-based spectrum policies; assessing competition in the video marketplace; and assessing the impact of the development of the Internet on traditional communications policy structures.Before joining the FCC, Pepper was Director of the Annenberg Washington Program in Communications Policy Studies. He also has been Director of Domestic Policies and Acting Associate Administrator at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration and developed a program on communications, computers, and information at the National Science Foundation.
He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he also received his doctorate.
Andrew PincusAndrew J. Pincus was nominated by President Clinton and confirmed by the United States Senate to serve as General Counsel for the U.S. Department of Commerce. Mr. Pincus was sworn in on April 27, 1997.
As General Counsel, Mr. Pincus is the chief legal advisor for the Department. Beyond his legal responsibilities, Mr. Pincus also serves as a senior policy advisor for the Secretary and the Department on a broad range of domestic and international issues, including electronic commerce, international trade, telecommunications, intellectual property rights, environmental issues, export controls and technology.
Prior to joining the Commerce Department, Mr. Pincus was a partner at the Washington, DC law firm of Mayer, Brown & Platt from 1988 to 1997, where he focused on Supreme Court and appellate litigation and legislative policy. From 1984 to 1988, he was Assistant to the Solicitor General at the U.S. Department of Justice; and from 1982 to 1984, Mr. Pincus was an associate at the firm of Hughes, Hubbard & Reed in Washington, DC.
Mr. Pincus began his career as a judicial clerk to U.S. District Judge Harold H. Greene (1981-1982). He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale College (1977), where he graduated cum laude, and a law degree from the Columbia University School of Law (1981), where he was the James Kent Scholar, Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and Notes and Comments Editor of The Law Review.
Mr. Pincus, 41, was born in New York, New York. He resides in Washington, DC with his wife and their two children.
David PecautDavid Pecaut is the leader The Boston Consulting Group’s global electronic commerce practice and heads BCG’s Canadian operations. David's work focuses on issues of competitive strategy, electronic commerce strategy, globalization, brand building and pricing. His clients are major multinationals in a wide array of industries including financial services, consumer goods and high technology. David has also built an international practice as an advisor to various governments on economic and industrial policy.
The author of numerous articles and books, David’s most recent article, ‘Breaking Compromises, Breakaway Growth’ appeared in the Harvard Business Review. David holds a Master’s in philosophy from the University of Sussex and an AB magna cum laude from Harvard College.
Jonathan SalletJonathan Sallet is Chief Policy Counsel for MCI WorldCom, Inc. In that capacity, he develops and coordinates MCI WorldCom's public policy positions and oversees the company's advocacy to the federal government.
From 1993 to 1996, he served as Assistant to Secretary Ronald R. Brown and Director of the Office of Policy & Strategic Planning at the United States Department of Commerce. Before joining the Clinton Administration, Sallet advised then-senator Al Gore on economic policy issues.
From 1980 to 1993, Sallet practiced law in Washington, DC. He also served as an adjunct professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center, co-teaching a constitutional law seminar.
Sallet served as a law clerk to Associate Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. of the United States Supreme Court from 1979-1980 and to Judge Edward A. Tamm of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1978-79.
Sallet graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1978, where he was Editor-In-Chief of The Virginia Law Review and a member of the Raven Society. He graduated from Brown University in 1974. Currently, he serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the nonprofit organization, Rock the Vote, the Center for National Policy, and the D.C. Technology Council.
Bror SalmelinGraduated from Helsinki University of Technology with majors in Control and Systems Engineering, Electronics and Measurement Technology in 1978.
Joined the in 1983 founded Technology Development Centre, TEKES (a Finnish agency co-ordinating and funding industrial RTD) in 1984. Had several positions within the organisation responsible for projects and national programmes in Manufacturing, Industrial Automation and Electronics. From 1994 onwards the deputy of the Information Technology Section in TEKES.
Was involved in the ESPRIT programme unofficially from 1985, later was the Finnish government representative at the Information Technology Committee. Was involved in the global IMS (Intelligent Manufacturing Systems) initiative from the very first beginning in 1990, during the Feasibility Study phase chaired the EFTA delegation.
Moved to Los Angeles in 1996, where held the position of Technology Attaché for TEKES. The main tasks were to establish research and business contacts with U.S. and Finnish businesses and research establishments.
Joined as Head of Unit in DG III F/7 (Integration in Manufacturing) the European Commission in March 1998. From January 1999 the Head of Unit in DG XIII C/3 (Electronic Commerce) in the IST (Information Society Technology) programme.
Pamela SamuelsonPamela Samuelson is a Professor at the University of California at Berkeley with a joint appointment in the School of Information Management & Systems as well as in the School of Law where she is Co-Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. She has written and spoken extensively about the challenges that new information technologies pose for traditional legal regimes, especially for intellectual property law.
In June of 1997 she was named a Fellow of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. She has also been also been a Public Policy Fellow of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and a Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery. In March of 1998, the National Law Journal named her as one of the fifty most outstanding women lawyers in the U.S. She is also a member of the American Law Institute and of the Board of Directors for the Northern California chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. As a Contributing Editor of the computing professionals' journal, Communications of the ACM, she writes a regular "Legally Speaking" column.
A 1976 graduate of Yale Law School, she practiced law as an associate with the New York law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher before turning to more academic pursuits. From 1981 through June 1996 she was a member of the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh Law School, from which she visited at Columbia, Cornell, and Emory Law Schools.
Glenn WorochDr. Woroch is presently Visiting Professor of Economics and Executive Director of the Consortium for Research on Telecommunications Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. After receiving an M.A. in Statistics and a Ph.D. in Economics from Berkeley, he joined the economics faculty at the University of Rochester. Subsequently, as a research economist at GTE Laboratories, he managed several projects related to regulatory reform and emerging competition in local exchange markets. Returning to California, Dr. Woroch taught briefly at Stanford University before taking up his current positions at Berkeley.
Dr. Woroch's current research examines the incentives for and consequences of entry into network industries, and regulatory policy and corporate strategy toward deregulated telecommunications markets. His research also investigates the efficient protection of intellectual property and the competitive and welfare effects of exclusionary practices of dominant firms especially in high tech and network industries.Dr. Woroch is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Regulatory Economics and the board of directors of the International Telecommunications Society. He has served as an advisor to government agencies and industry committees, and regularly consults to private companies and testifies on regulatory, antitrust and intellectual property matters.
For a detailed curriculum vitae and research publications, please visit: http://elsa.berkeley.edu/~woroch
Axel Zerdick joined the faculty of Freie Universität Berlin in 1980 as Professor of Economics and Mass Communication (Institut für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft); at present, he is also dean of the Department of Political and Social Sciences. After university studies in electrical engineering, Law and Business administration in Germany and Canada and professional experience in Germany, Canada and Japan he finished his university education with a degree in Business Administration (Diplom-Kaufmann, specializing in electronic data processing) in 1968 and a doctoral degree in Economics (Dr. rer.pol., specializing in antitrust policy in Japan) in 1970. He continually combined teaching and research positions with consulting work, originally with an emphasis on commercial data processing, gradually changing into the economics of mass media and telecommunications and communicattion policy. He has frequently been a speaker in international conferences and a collaborator in international research efforts; his cooperation with Berkeley colleagues dates back to a visiting professorship in 1986. In 1996, he founded the European Communication Council (an independent group of communication scholars, supported by private funds), of which he also is the speaker.
He has been serving on several German federal and state government committees. His work has included policy consulting for several foreign governments on broadcasting and telecommunication issues. At present, he serves on the Board of Governors of Sender Freies Berlin (the Public Broadcasting Institution of Berlin) and on the Scientific Advisory Board of Regulierungsbehörde für Post und Telekommunikation (the German Federal Regulatory Authority for Telecommunication and Postal Services). His consulting work for companies has included clients from the media, multimedia and telecommunication industries. He is presently chairman of the board of ART+COM Medientechnologie und Gestaltung AG, a software and VR solution provider company based in Berlin.
His authored and co-authored publications on communication issues include works (in German) on "Telephone and Society, vol.1: Approaches to a Sociology of Telephone Communication" (1989), "The Diversity of Telephone Usage in Europe" (1990), "The Future of the Telephone – Comments on the Interrelationship of Social Psychology and Economic Factors" (1990), "Recommendations for a Broadcasting Policy Framework in the States of Berlin and Brandenburg" (1990), "Structural Analysis of Mail Services for Press Products and their Economic and Policy Implications" (1991), "New Developments of Media Concentration in Europe" (1993), "Mail Services for Press Products in Europe: Mail Services for Newspapers and Magazines in Selected European Countries" (1995), "Concentration in the Multimedia Age" (1995), "The US Media Mergers and their Implications for the German and European Television Markets" (1995). - In English: "Youth and Multimedia: Potential Influence of Multimedia on Children and Young People. A summary report on issues in German research on Multimedia", Berlin 1996 (with Andreas Breiter, Hardy Dreier und Peter Zoche) and "Exploring the Limits - Europe's Changing Communication Environment. The European Communication Council Report The European Communication Council Report 1997". - Berlin; Heidelberg; New York: Springer. (with Philip Schlesinger, Alessandro Silj und Percy Tannen-baum). Readers of English only should look forward to the English version of "Die Internet-Ökonomie - Strategien für die digitale Wirtschaft" (1999) to be published as " E-conomics: Strategies for the Digital Marketplace" (with Arnold Picot, Klaus Schrape; Alexander Artopé, Klaus Goldhammer, Ulrich T. Lange, Eckart Vierkant; Esteban López-Escobar, Roger Silverstone) in June 1999 by Springer (Japanese and Spanish editions are under way).
Professor Zysman has been a member of the Berkeley faculty since 1974, and is the Co-Director of the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy, founded in 1982. Professor Zysman completed a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1973 and has been honored with Visiting Professorships in North America, Europe, and Asia. He has served as a consultant to a number of governments, firms and international organizations.
Recent publications on European and Japanese policy include: "Europe in an Emerging World Economy: Why Economic Heterogeneity Creates New Options," with Andrew Schwartz, in Journal of Common Market Studies, September 1998; "‘Wintelism’ and the Changing Terms of Global Competition: Prototype of the Future?" with Michael Borrus. BRIE Working Paper #96B, (Berkeley: BRIE, 1997); "Technology or Trade" How to Create Jobs? The Kreisky Commission on Employment Issues in Europe, Ed. (Vienna: Passagen-Verlag, 1996); "Tales from the ‘Global’ Economy: Cross National Production Networks and the Re-Organization of the European Economy" with Eileen Doherty and Andrew Schwartz, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics (North Holland, 1997). Prof. Zysman recently finished editing a two-volume series on the economic transformation in Europe and the former Soviet Union, published in the Fall of 1998 by International and Area Studies Press, entitled Enlarging Europe: The Industrial Foundations of a New Political Reality (with Andrew Schwartz) and The Tunnel at the End of the Light: Privatization, Business Networks, and Market Development in Russia (with Stephen Cohen and Andrew Schwartz) respectively. Other books include: Manufacturing Matters (with Stephen S. Cohen, 1987); Governments, Markets and Growth (1983); Political Strategies for Industrial Order: State, Market and Industry in France (1977; published in France as, L'Industrie Française Entre l'Etat et le Marche, 1983).
