D avid 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.