David W. Dorman is chairman of the board and chief executive officer of AT&T. He joined AT&T Corp. as president in December 2000. Before coming to AT&T, Mr. Dorman was CEO of Concert, the global venture created by AT&T and British Telecommunications. His career in telecommunications began in 1981, after early jobs in software development, sales and marketing, when he became the fifty-fifth employee of the then-fledgling long-distance carrier now know as Sprint. By 1990, Mr. Dorman was president of Sprint Business. In 1994, he became the youngest chief executive officer of a Bell operating company when he was name CEO of Pacific Bell. Mr. Dorman became an executive vice president of SBC Communications when it acquired Pacific Bell. He left SBC to serve as chairman, president, and CEO of PointCast, an Internet-based news and information service, before becoming CEO of Concert.

James K. Glassman is a resident fellow at AEI and the host of TechCentralStation.com. He also writes a syndicated financial column, which appears on the front page of the Washington Post business section every Sunday and is published in other newspapers, including the New York Daily News and the International Herald Tribune. Mr. Glassman is the author of The Secret Code of the Superior Investor (Crown), which Business Week called the best financial book of the 2002 season and Barron’s selected as one of the year’s ten best. His first book, Dow 36,000 (Times Books), a bestseller coauthored with the economist and AEI scholar Kevin A. Hassett, was praised by Newsweek’s Allan Sloan for its "wonderfully clear explanations of financial theory [and] excellent advice on general investing approaches." Mr. Glassman has given frequent congressional testimony, recently on subjects as varied as telecommunications policy, Securities and Exchange Commission regulations, Social Security reform, and personal investing. He is a popular speaker on economic, political, and investing topics.

Jeffrey Halpern is the senior research analyst covering the domestic telecommunications industry at Sanford C. Bernstein. Immediately prior to joining Bernstein, he was regional director of financial solutions consulting for Bell Communications Research (BellCore, now Telcordia Technologies). Among Mr. Halpern’s long-term clients at BellCore were three of Western Europe’s largest incumbent telecommunication service providers, as well as the first competitive local exchange carrier in South Korea. Before joining Bellcore, he was a member of the senior management team charged with the turnaround of Woodard, a private manufacturing concern. In addition to his professional accomplishments, Mr. Halpern also serves on the Board of the Allwin Initiative on Corporate Citizenship at the Amos Tuck School.

Laurence J. Kotlikoff is professor of economics at Boston University. He is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a fellow of the Econometric Society, and president of Economic Security Planning, Inc. Mr. Kotlikoff was a senior economist on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers during the Reagan administration and served on the faculties of economics of the University of California, Los Angeles, and Yale University. He has testified before the Senate Finance Committee, the House Ways and Means Committee, and the Joint Economic Committee. Mr. Kotlikoff is the author of several books, including Essays on Saving, Bequests, Altruism, and Life-Cycle Planning.

Blair Levin is a managing director and telecom and media analyst for Legg Mason. He served as chief of staff to Chairman Reed Hundt at the Federal Communications Commission from December 1993 through October 1997. Described by Broadcast and Cable magazine as the "Sixth Commissioner," Mr. Levin oversaw, among other matters, the implementation of the historic 1996 Telecommunications Reform Act, the first spectrum auctions, the development of digital television standards, and the FCC’s Internet initiative. After leaving the FCC, he served as a consultant to a wide variety of telecommunications and media companies. Before his position with the FCC, Mr. Levin was a partner in the North Carolina law firm of Parker Poe, Poe, Adams and Bernstein, where he represented new communications ventures, as well as numerous local governments on public financing issues. He has spoken to numerous conferences around the world, has testified before multiple governmental entities, and has written for a variety of publications on telecommunications and media issues.

Kevin J. Martin was sworn in as FCC commissioner on July 3, 2001. Before joining the FCC, he was a special assistant to the president for economic policy. Mr. Martin served on the Bush-Cheney Transition Team and was deputy general counsel for the Bush campaign. Before joining the campaign, he was an adviser to FCC commissioner Harold Furchtgott-Roth. Mr. Martin has also served in the Office of the Independent Counsel and worked as an associate at the Washington, D.C., law firm of Wiley, Rein & Fielding. Before joining Wiley, Rein & Fielding, he was a judicial clerk for U.S. district court judge William M. Hoeveler in Miami, Florida.

Bruce P. Mehlman was confirmed assistant secretary of Commerce for technology policy on May 25, 2001. He leads the Office of Technology Policy within the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Technology Administration. Before joining the Department of Commerce, Mr. Mehlman served as telecommunications policy counsel for Cisco Systems, Inc. Before joining Cisco Systems, he served as policy director and general counsel at the House Republican Conference headed by Representative J. C. Watts Jr. (R-Okla.). Mr. Mehlman formerly served as general counsel of the National Republican Congressional Committee under chairmen Representative Bill Paxon (R-N.Y.) and Representative John Linder (R-Ga.), focusing on election law, political broadcast regulations, and congressional ethics. He also worked as a commercial litigation attorney in the Washington, D.C., law firm of Wiley, Rein & Fielding.

Harris N. Miller became president of the Information Technology Association of America in 1995. He is also president of the World Information Technology and Services Alliance, an "association of associations" representing fifty high-tech trade groups around the world, and a member of the board of directors of ITT Educational Services, Inc. Governor Mark Warner (D-Va.) recently appointed him to the Virginia Research and Technology Advisory Commission. Before joining ITAA, Mr. Miller was president of Immigration Services Associates, a government relations firm based in Washington, D.C., specializing in immigration issues and concurrently acted as government relations director for Fragomen, Del Rey & Bernsen, P.C., a nationwide law firm specializing in immigration. He operated his own government relations firm, Harris Miller & Associates, with clients in high tech, agriculture and banking. In addition to private sector experience, Mr. Miller has many years of government service, including assignments as legislative director to Senator John A. Durkin (D-N.H.); deputy director for congressional relations in the Office of Personnel Management; and legislative assistant for the Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, and International Law on the House Committee on the Judiciary. He has written and spoken widely on a variety of high tech issues and has been published in various popular and academic journals, including the Washington Post, IT Professional Magazine, and The World Today.

Adam D. Thierer is the director of telecommunications studies at the Cato Institute. He conducts research on how government regulations are hampering the evolution of communications networks, including telephony, broadcasting, cable, satellite, and the Internet and he also examines the broader economic and constitutional aspects of telecommunications policy. Before joining Cato, Mr. Thierer spent nine years at the Heritage Foundation, where he served as the Alex C. Walker Fellow in Economic Policy. In that capacity, he covered telecommunications and Internet policy and also wrote extensively on antitrust, electricity and energy policy, the airline industry, and federalism. Before coming to Washington, he worked at the Adam Smith Institute in London, England, where he examined reform of the British legal system. His writing has been published in the Washington Post, Newsweek, Wall Street Journal, Investors Business Daily, Journal of Commerce, Forbes, and The Economist. He has made media appearances on National Public Radio, PBS, Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC, BBC, Radio Free Europe, and Voice of America.