Tim Berners-Lee
Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. He is the Director of the World Wide
Web Consortium and the 3Com Founders Professor of Engineering in the School of
Engineering with a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science at the Laboratory for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he also heads the Decentralized
Information Group.
Vinton G. Cerf
Cerf is recognized as one of the fathers of the Internet. He is currently vice president
and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google. His honorary degrees and awards include the
National Medal of Technology, the Turing Award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom,
and membership in the National Academy of Engineering.
KC Claffy
Claffy is Director of the Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) based at
the San Diego Supercomputer Center of the University of California, San Diego. She
founded CAIDA in 1996 and leads its research in Internet data collection, analysis, and
visualization, and in enabling others to make use of the data and results. Dr. Claffy
received the IEEE Internet Award in 2014 for her “seminal contributions to the field
of Internet measurement, including security and network data analysis, and for
distinguished leadership in and service to the Internet community by providing open-access data and tools.”
Paul de Sa
de Sa is a Senior Analyst at Bernstein Research. Prior to joining Bernstein, he worked at
the FCC, serving as chief of the Office of Strategic Planning and Policy Analysis and
working on a wide variety of issues before the commission such as broadband and
spectrum policy. Previously, he was a partner at McKinsey & Co. Dr. de Sa holds a
doctorate in theoretical physics (Oxford Univ.), was a Kennedy Scholar at MIT and a
post-doctoral research fellow at Harvard.
Sharon Gillett
Gillett is Principal Technology Policy Strategist at Microsoft Corporation. Prior to
joining Microsoft, she was Chief of the Wireline Competition Bureau at the FCC,
working on the PSTN-to-IP transition and reform of the Universal Service Fund.
Previously, Ms. Gillett lead the Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and
Cable and served as the executive director and research associate for the Internet and
Telecoms Convergence Consortium at MIT.
William Lehr
Lehr is an economist and research associate in the Computer Science and Artificial
Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He
currently works on the Communications Futures Program at CSAIL. Previously, Dr.
Lehr was associate director of the MIT Research Program on Internet & Telecoms
Convergence and an associate professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of
Business. His research focuses on the economic impact of regulatory policy on Internet industries.
Ruth Milkman
Milkman is the FCC Chief of Staff. Ms. Milkman previously served in the FCC as Chief
of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, Special Counsel to the Chairman for
Innovation in Government, Deputy Chief of the International and Common Carrier
Bureaus, and Senior Legal Advisor to Chairman Reed Hundt. She was also a founding
partner at Lawler, Metzger, Milkman & Keeney and served as a law clerk to the U.S.
Court of Appeals Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson.
Jonathan Nuechterlein
Nuechterlein is the FTC General Counsel. Previously he was a partner and Chair of the
Communications, Privacy, and Internet Law Practice Group at Wilmer Cutler Pickering
Hale & Dorr, Deputy General Counsel for the FCC, and an Assistant to the Solicitor
General at the U.S. Department of Justice. Nuechterlein also clerked for U.S. Supreme
Court Justice David H. Souter and U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Stephen F. Williams.
Jonathan Sallet
Sallet is the FCC General Counsel. Mr. Sallet has been a partner in three law firms,
O’Melveny & Myers LLP, Jenner & Block and Miller, and Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin,
and served as Chief Policy Counsel for MCI Telecommunications, later MCI
WorldCom. Mr. Sallet also served as Director of the Office of Policy & Strategic
Planning for the Department of Commerce, and was a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court
Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr., and U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Edward A. Tamm.
Henning Schulzrinne
Schulzrinne is Julian Clarence Levi Professor of Computer Science at Columbia
University and Technology Advisor to the FCC, where he had previously served as
Chief Technology Officer. Prior to joining Columbia, Schulzrinne was a member of the
technical staff at AT&T Bell Labs and at GMD-Fokus (Berlin). He served in many
positions in the IEEE Communications Society (including the Board of Governors and
as vice chair of ACM SIGCOMM), and co-developed a wide range of important Internet standards and
protocols, such as VOIP.
Howard Shelanski
Shelanski is the Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
Previously he was the Director of the Bureau of Economics at the FTC, and he has
also served as Chief Economist of the FCC and as a Senior Economist for the
President's Council of Economic Advisers. He has been a member of the faculties of
Georgetown University (since 2011) and the University of California at Berkeley (19972009). Before beginning his academic and government career Mr. Shelanski practiced
law and served as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, U.S. District Court Judge Louis
H. Pollak, and U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Stephen F. Williams.
Jim Speta
Speta is the Class of 1940 Research Professor of Law and Senior Associate Dean at
Northwestern Law. His research includes telecom and Internet policy, antitrust,
administrative law, and market organization. He teaches in the Law School and in the
Joint Program in Law and Business operated by the Law School and the Kellogg
School. A graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, Prof. Speta clerked for
U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Harry T. Edwards and practiced appellate, telecom, and
antitrust law with the Chicago office of Sidley & Austin.
Daniel Weitzner
Weitzner is the Director of MIT’s CSAIL Decentralized Information Group and
teaches at MIT’s Computer Science Department. His research includes development of
accountable systems architectures to enable the Web to be more responsive to policy
requirements. Prior to MIT, he was the Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Internet
Policy in the White House, where his work included the U.S. Consumer Privacy Bill of
Rights and the OECD Internet Policymaking Principles. He founded the Center for
Democracy and Technology and was Deputy Policy Director of the Electronic Frontier
Foundation. In 2012 he was named to the Newsweek/Daily Beast Digital Power Index.