Leonard Waverman is professor and Chair of Economics at the London Business School. He is the director of the Economic and Social Research Council's E-Society Research Programme. His most cited paper is "Telecommunications Infrastructure and Economic Development: A Simultaneous Approach," coauthored with H. Roeller and published in the American Economic Review (September 2001). Mr. Waverman is a non-executive board member of GEMA, the United Kingdom’s Electricity and Gas Market Authority. He is member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin. He is also on the advisory panel to Vodafone's Research Programme on the Socio-Economic Impact of Mobile. He is a Fellow of Columbia University's Centre for Tele-Information. Mr. Waverman has also received the honor of Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques of the government of France.
J. Gregory Sidak is the F. K. Weyerhaeuser Fellow in Law and Economics at AEI. He has served as the deputy general counsel of the Federal Communications Commission and as a senior counsel and economist on President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers. He is the author or coauthor of five books on network industries, including Deregulatory Takings and the Regulatory Contract: The Competitive Transformation of Network Industries in the United States, Protecting Competition from the Postal Monopoly; Toward Competition in Local Telephony, and Transmission Pricing and Stranded Costs in the Electric Power Industry. Mr. Sidak has testified before committees of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives on regulatory and constitutional law matters.
Scott Wallsten is a fellow at the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies and resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Before joining the Joint Center, he had been an economist at the World Bank, a scholar at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and a staff economist at the Council of Economic Advisers. His interests include industrial organization and public policy, and his research has focused on regulation, privatization, competition, and science and technology policy. His work has been published in journals including the RAND Journal of Economics, the Journal of Industrial Economics, the Journal of Regulatory Economics, and Regulation.
Diane Coyle is the author of Sex, Drugs and Economics and Paradoxes of Prosperity, published by Texere. Ms. Coyle runs the consultancy Enlightenment Economics, which specializes in the impact of new technologies and globalization and she is a member of the Competition Commission and a visiting professor at the University of Manchester's Institute for Political and Economic Governance. She is also a presenter on BBC Radio 4's Analysis and a member of the executive committee of the Centre for Economic Policy Research and the Royal Economic Society's Committee on Women in Economics.
Claude E. Barfield is a resident scholar and the director of science and technology policy studies at AEI. He is the author or editor of a number of books on trade and science policy, including the recently published Free Trade, Sovereignty, Democracy: The Future of the World Trade Organization. In 1999, he coauthored Tiger by the Tail: China and the World Trade Organization with Mark Groombridge. Before coming to AEI, he served in the Ford administration, on the staff of the U.S. Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, and as a co-staff director of the President's Commission for a National Agenda for the Eighties.
Neil Gough began his career as an economist with the United Kingdom Department of Energy; he then worked for Amoco/BP as head of Regulatory Affairs before he joined Vodafone in 2003 as director of International Institutions.
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