Martin Cave is a professor at Warwick University in the United Kingdom . His areas of expertise include competition law and policy, regulatory economics, and telecommunications. Mr. Cave is an adviser to Oftel, the United Kingdom’s telecommunications regulator, and is a member of the Competition Commission. He also advises Postcom, which is the United Kingdom’s postal regulator, and the United Kingdom’s airport regulator. Mr. Cave has consulted for numerous firms in regulatory proceedings in other network industries, as well as in antitrust and commercial litigation. Mr. Cave is the editor of the Handbook of Telecommunications Economics. His work has been published in numerous scholarly journals, including the Economic Journal, the European Economic Review, the Information Economics and Policy, and the Oxford Review of Economic Policy.

Robert W. Crandall is a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution. His research areas include antitrust, telecommunications, the automobile industry, competitiveness, deregulation, industrial organization and policy, and regulation. He is the author or coauthor of Who Pays for Universal Service? When Telephone Subsidies Become Transparent; Talk Is Cheap: The Promise of Regulatory Reform in North American Telecommunications; After the Breakup: U.S. Telecommunications in a More Competitive Era; Changing the Rules: Technological Change, International Competition, and Regulation in Communications; The Extra Mile: Rethinking Energy Policy for Automotive Transportation; and Manufacturing on the Move, Regulating the Automobile. Mr. Crandall previously taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at George Washington University.

Gary Epstein is a partner at the international law firm of Latham & Watkins. Mr. Epstein is the lead attorney for Latham & Watkins on U.S. domestic telecommunications matters and satellite and international communications projects. He has advised several of the divested Bell Operating Companies on U.S. telecommunications regulatory matters, including local access and interconnection, convergence of cable and telephone technologies, and personal communications services. Mr. Epstein also serves as the U.S. regulatory counsel for Teléfonos de México and has advised several foreign and foreign-owned companies on U.S. international policies, including ownership restrictions and authorizations for international services. He has been involved directly in the privatization or other restructurings of telecommunications sectors in Pakistan, Kuwait, New Zealand, Australia, Venezuela, Argentina, and Poland. Mr. Epstein was the chief of the common carrier bureau of the Federal Communications Commission from 1981 to 1983. During his tenure, he directed the development and implementation of key policies adopted by the FCC in such areas as market competition, access charges, cellular radio, satellite spacing, and FCC international policies.

Gerald R. Faulhaber is a professor of public policy and management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He served as the chief economist at the Federal Communications Commission from 2000 to 2001. His research areas include microeconomics, management, and public policy, with particular emphasis on telecommunications and broadband infrastructure for the Internet. He is the author of several books, including European Economic Integration: Technological Perspectives and Telecommunications in Turmoil: Technology and Public Policy. Mr. Faulhaber has served on numerous scholarly boards and review committees and was the vice president of the Board of Directors of the Telecommunications Policy Research Conference in Washington, D.C. He was an associate editor of the Journal of Industrial Economics and serves on the Board of Editors of Information Economics and Policy. Mr. Faulhaber was previously the director of strategic planning and financial management at AT&T and was the head of economics research at Bell Laboratories. He has held visiting scholar positions at INSEAD in Fountainebleau, France; at the Institut Analisi Economica in Barcelona; and at Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management in Beijing.

Harold Furchtgott-Roth is a visiting fellow at AEI. One of the few economists to have served on a federal regulatory commission, he is writing a book on telecommunications regulation. From 1997 through 2001, he served as a commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission, where he was a forceful critic of the agency’s overregulation of communications and broadcasting markets and a frequent dissenter from its decisions. Before his appointment to the FCC, he was a chief economist for the U.S. House Committee on Commerce and a principal staff member on the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Mr. Furchtgott-Roth is the coauthor of three books: Cable TV: Regulation or Competition (1996); Economics of a Disaster: The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill (1995); and International Trade in Computer Software (1993).

Edward M. Graham is a senior fellow at the Institute of International Economics. He has also been a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund and a visiting professor at Seoul National University and Harvard University since 1995. Mr. Graham previously taught at Duke University, the University of North Carolina, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has also served on the professional staffs of the OECD and the U.S. Treasury Department. Mr. Graham is the author or coauthor of a number of studies on international investment and technology transfer, including Fighting the Wrong Enemy: Antiglobal Activists and Multinational Enterprises; Competition Policy and Competition Policies in the Global Economy, coauthored with J. David Richardson; Global Corporations and National Governments; and Foreign Direct Investment in the United States, coauthored with Paul R. Krugman. He has also published over sixty scholarly articles.

Randall S. Kroszner was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on November 28, and was appointed by President Bush on November 30, as a member of the Council of Economic Advisers. Mr. Kroszner is on leave from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, where he is a professor of economics. He is also on leave from his positions as editor of the Journal of Law and Economics and associate director of the George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State. Mr. Kroszner has served as a consultant to the International Monetary Fund; the World Bank; the Inter-American Development Bank; the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Kansas City, Minneapolis, New York, and St. Louis; the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Deutsche Bank; Lexecon Inc.; and G.T. Management (Asia). Mr. Kroszner has been a visiting professor at the Stockholm School of Economics, the Institute for International Economic Studies at the University of Stockholm, and the Free University of Berlin. His research interests include the economics and politics of international and domestic banking and financial regulation, bond markets and debt restructuring, monetary economics, and antirust. His articles have been published in over fifty journals, including the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, The Public Interest, and Regulation.

William T. Lake is a partner at the law firm of Wilmer Cutler & Pickering and cochairs the firm’ s communications and electronic commerce practice group. His practice focuses on U.S. and international telecommunications, including related trade, competition, and intellectual property issues. Mr. Lake joined the firm in 1973, after serving as counsel to the Council on Environmental Quality at the Executive Office of the President, and he became a partner in 1977. In 1980, he left the firm to serve as principal deputy legal adviser at the U.S. Department of State, and he returned to the firm in 1981. Mr. Lake is a member of the American Law Institute, the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Society of International Law, the Panel of Arbitrators of the American Arbitration Association, the Federal Communications Bar Association, and the U.S. Council for International Business. Mr. Lake serves on the board’s of directors for the International Human Rights Law Group and the World Wildlife Fund. He writes and speaks frequently on telecommunications issues.

Kevin J. Martin was nominated April 30, and confirmed May 25 as a commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission. Mr. Martin served as a special assistant to the president for economic policy. He also served on the Bush-Cheney transition team and was the deputy general counsel for the Bush campaign. Before joining the campaign, Mr. Martin was an adviser to FCC commissioner Harold Furchtgott-Roth. He has also served in the Office of the Independent Counsel and as an associate at the law firm of Wiley, Rein & Fielding. Mr. Martin was a law clerk to Judge William M. Hoeveler of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Mark S. McConnell is a partner at the international law firm of Hogan & Hartson. Mr. McConnell’s practice centers on international trade regulation and related issues, in which he represents U.S. and foreign corporations, trade associations, and governments. His areas of practice encompass litigation of trade cases before U.S. government agencies and courts, as well as representation of clients involved in regulatory and legislative action by the U.S. government. His practice also includes analysis of U.S. international trade policy for private and governmental clients, and has served as an adviser to governments involved in trade negotiations with the United States. Mr. McConnell has written a number of articles on international trade and investment regulation and speaks frequently on trade policy and trade regulation. He served on President-elect Reagan’s presidential transition team in 1980.

Jeffrey H. Rohlfs is a founding principal at Strategic Policy Research, Inc. He has consulted for a variety of clients with regard to telecommunications competition, cost estimation, interconnection pricing, regulatory reform, restructuring and privatization in many countries, and policies regarding spectrum and mobile telecommunications. Mr. Rohlfs has substantial international consulting experience. His work has appeared in numerous publications and has been presented at conferences worldwide. Mr. Rohlfs served as the department head of economic modeling research at Bell Laboratories, where he researched the theory of network externalities and the theory and estimation of optimal telecommunications prices. He also has taught economics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

J. Gregory Sidak is the F. K. Weyerhaeuser Fellow in Law and Economics at AEI. He has served as 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.

John Thorne is a lecturer in telecommunications law at Columbia Law School and the senior vice president and deputy general counsel of Verizon, where he is responsible for antitrust, trade regulation, and strategic initiatives. He has coauthored several books with Peter Huber and Michael Kellogg, including Federal Telecommunications Law and Federal Broadband Law. In 1993, he won a seminal First Amendment case, Chesapeake & Potomac Tel. Co. v. United States, which permitted telephone companies to provide broadband video services. Corporate Counsel Magazine named Mr. Thorne one of its forty-five best corporate lawyers under the age of forty-five in 1996.