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Eli Noam is Professor of Economics and Finance at the Columbia Business School since 1976 and its Garrett Professor of Public Policy and Business Responsibility. Served for three years as a Commissioner for Public Services of New York State. Appointed by the White House to the President's IT Advisory Committee. Director of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, a research center focusing on management and policy issues in communications, internet, and media. He has also taught at Columbia Law School, Princeton University's Economics Department and Woodrow Wilson School, and the University of St. Gallen, and is active in the development of electronic distance education. Noam has published 30 books and over 300 articles in economics journals, law reviews, and interdisciplinary journals, and is a regular columnist for the Financial Times online edition. His recent books and projects include: Media Ownership and Concentration in America (Oxford); Peer-to-Peer Video (Springer); Media Concentration Around the World (ed., Oxford, forthcoming); Media Management (4-volumes, forthcoming); and the projects: A National Initiative for Next Generation Video; Ultrabroadband; and Next Generation Wireless.
Noam has been a member of advisory boards for the Federal government's telecommunications network, and of the IRS computer system, of the National Computer Systems Laboratory, the National Commission on the Status of Women in Computing, the Governor's Task Force on New Media, and of the Intek Corporation. His academic, advisory, and non-profit board and trustee memberships include the Nexus Mundi Foundation (Chairman), Oxford Internet Institute, Jones International University (the first accredited online university), the Electronic Privacy Information Center, the Minority Media Council, and several committees of the National Research Council. He served on advisory boards for the governments of Ireland and Sweden, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a commercially rated pilot, served in the Israel Air Force in the 1967 and 1973 wars, and is currently a search and rescue pilot with the Civil Air Patrol (1st Lt.). He is married to Nadine Strossen, a law professor and national president of the American Civil Liberties Union for 18 years. He received the degrees of BA, MA, Ph.D (Economics) and JD from Harvard University, and honorary doctorates from the University of Munich (2006) and the University of Marseilles (2008). Contact: noam@columbia.edu.
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curriculum vitae.
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Present Positions:
Public Policy and Business Responsibility Columbia Business School; 2012-present
Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia Business School; 1976-present
Director, Columbia
University Institute for Tele-Information; 1983-1987,
1991-present
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Education:
Harvard: A.B. 1970
(Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude thesis); A.M. 1972; J.D. 1975; Ph.D.
Economics, 1975, Dissertation adviser: Martin
Feldstein, Thomas
Schelling.
Honorary Doctorate, Ludwig-Maximilian
University, Munich, 2006
Honorary Doctorate, University of Marseilles, 2008
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Other Academic Positions:
Columbia Law School
Visiting Professor, Princeton
University Economics Department
& Woodrow Wilson
School 1975-1976.
Virtual Visiting Professor at University
of St. Gallen, Switzerland. 1998-2000.
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Selected Goverment Service:
Commissioner, New York
State Public Service Commission. 1987-1990.
President's Information Technology
Advisory Committee (PITAC), 2003-2005
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Selected Government Boards:
General Services Administration,
FTS-2001
Network Selection
IRS, Tax Information
Systems Modernization
National Institute of Standards and Technology, National
Computer Laboratory.
National Association of Regulatory
Commissioners, Technology Committee; National Regulatory Research Institute
National Academy of Science,
Committee
on Future of Broadband Communications, (Report:, "Broadband: Bringing
Home the Bits")
Commission on the Status of Women in Computing
Governor's
Task Force on New Media and the Internet, New York State
International Advisory Board to the National Agency ComReg
(Commission for Communications Regulation), Ireland
Committee
on the State of Telecom R&D
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Boards and Advisory Boards (selective):
Electronic Privacy Infromation
Center (EPIC)
European Institute on the
Media
France
Telecom Scientific Advisory Board
Intel Corporation
Jones
International University (online college), Trustee
Minority Media Telecommunications
Council
Nexus Mundi Foundation
for LDC IT development, Chairman
Oxford Internet Institute
DeSantis Center for Film Studies, Senior Fellow
International Engineering Consortium, Honorary Fellow
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Editorial Boards:
The Communications Review
Communications and Strategies
Information Law Series.
International Journal on Media Management
Law and Society Review (past).
New Media.
Telecommunications Policy.
Telematics.
Transborder Data Report.
Trends in Communications (co-editor)
Utility Policy.
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Books (authored, edited and co-edited):
Telecommunications
Regulation: Today and Tomorrow. Harcourt,
1982.
Video
Media Competition: Regulation, Economics, and Technology.
Columbia, 1985.
The Impact of Information Technologies on the Service Sector.
Ballinger, 1986.
Law
of International Telecommunications in the United States.
Namos, 1988.
The
Cost of Libel. Columbia,
1989.
Technology
Without Boundaries. Harvard,
1990.
Telecommunications
in Europe. Oxford, 1992.
Television
in Europe. Oxford, 1992.
The
Telecommunications Revolution. Routledge,
1992.
Asymmetric
Deregulation. Ablex,
1992.
The
International Market for Film and Television Programs.
Ablex,
1993.
Telecommunications
in the Pacific Basin. Oxford,
1994.
Privacy
in Telecommunications: Markets, Rights, and Regulations.
United Church of Christ, 1994.
Private
Networks and Public Objectives. Elsevier
, 1997.
Globalism
and Localism in Telecommunications. Elsevier,
1997.
Telecommunications
in Latin America. Oxford,
1998.
Telecommunications
in Western Asia. Oxford,
1998.
Public
Television in America. Bertelsmann,
1998.
Telecommunications
in Africa. Oxford, 1999.
Real
Options: The New Investment Theory and its Implications for
Telecommunications Economics. Kluwer,
2000.
Interconnecting
the Network of Networks. MIT,
Cambridge, MA, 2001.
Internet
Television, Eli Noam, Jo Groebel, Darcy Gerbarg, editors
(Erlbaum, 2004).
Competition
for the Mobile Internet, Dan Steinbock and Eli Noam (Artech,
2004).
Telecommunications
Meltdown, Eli Noam (co-author), with Thomas Hazlett, Lawrence Lessig,
Richard Epstein (in Japanese, 2005).
Mobile
Media Content and Services for Wireless Communications,
Jo Groebel, Eli Noam and Valerie Feldman, editors (Erlbaum,
2005).
Ultrabroadband: The Next Stage in Communications, Communications and Strategies, special issue, Co-editor, 2008
Peer to Peer Video as a Distribution Medium, Eli Noam and Lorenzo Pupillo, editors (2008, Springer)
Media Ownership and Concentration in America, Eli Noam (Oxford, 2009)
Broadband Networks, Smart Grids and Climate Change, Eli Noam, Lorenzo Pupillo, and Johann J. Kranz (Springer, 2013)
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Forthcoming Books and Books in Progress:
Media and Information Management (4-Volume Professional Handbook)
Media Ownership and Concentration Around The World (forthcoming, Oxford University Press)
The Next Generation of Television: The Cloud of Clouds
Broadband Nation: The Dark Side of the Internet
The Impact of Knowledge on the Firm
Ultrabroadband Networks and the Personal Media Cloud, editor
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Military Service:
Israel
Air Force. Six-Day War 1967, October War 1973.
Civil Air Patrol , 1st
Lt., present, Mission Pilot for Search and Rescue,
New York Wing, Phoenix Squadron
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Personal:
U.S. Citizen. Born 1946. Married 1980 to Nadine
Strossen, National President, American Civil Liberties Union 1991-2008 and Professor of Constitutional Law, New York Law School.
Radio Amateur Advanced
Class.
Commercially rated multi-engine pilot.
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Memberships:
New York and D.C. Bars; Council on Foreign Relations: Fellow, World Economic Forum.
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