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Professor Nicholas Bloom is a Professor of Economics at Stanford University. His works on management practices and uncertainty. He previously worked at the Treasury and at McKinsey & Company. His work has been covered extensively in the media, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, CNBC, BBC, Economist and the Financial Times. He is the recipient of several honors, including an Alfred Sloan Fellowship, a National Science Foundation Career Award and the Frisch Medal. He has a BA from Cambridge, an MPhil from Oxford, and a PhD from UCL. Read more »

Since October 2009, Mindel De La Torre has been Chief of the International Bureau at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). In that role, she leads the FCC’s efforts internationally – both on a bilateral and multilateral basis. She oversees the International Bureau’s functions with regard to licensing of international and domestic satellites, international long distance, international broadcast stations, and submarine cables. Ms. De La Torre was previously at the FCC between 1994-1998 as Deputy Chief of the Telecommunications Division of the International Bureau. Read more »

Ken Zita specializes in opportunity definition, strategic marketing and policy formulation at the highest levels of the technology, financial and government worlds. He has advised on behalf of private investors, lenders and international organizations in over 50 countries, including a number of fragile and post-conflict economies. Following 9/11 Mr. Zita served as principal U.S. Read more »

Cowhey is an expert on U.S. foreign policy and technology policy. He has published extensively on comparative foreign policy and international issues involving Asia and the United States. He has also done extensive work on international trade, technology and investment policy. His special expertise is the international communications and information industries.  Read more »

Alan Simpson is Vice President of Policy for Common Sense Media. Simpson’s background combines experience as an advocate for children and education issues, as well as work within media organizations. Prior to joining Common Sense Media, Simpson was the senior director for marketing and communications at the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). Simpson has also worked at Voices for Illinois Children, an advocacy organization in Chicago, and at National Public Radio (NPR) and the Cable Satellite Public Affairs Network (C-SPAN) in Washington, DC.

Daniel Gross is one of the most widely read financial and economic writers working today. He is global business editor and columnist at Newsweek and the Daily Beast, where he oversees economic coverage for the magazine and the website. His column appears online, in the magazine’s domestic and international editions, and in the several foreign language editions. He is the host of “The Number,” a daily video feature that appears on TheDailyBeast.com. Read more »

James Pethokoukis is the Money & Politics columnist-blogger for the American Enterprise Institute. Previously, he was the Washington columnist for Reuters Breakingviews. Pethokoukis has written for many publications including USNews & World Report, The New York Times, The Weekly Standard, Commentary, USA Today, and Investor's Business Daily. Pethokoukis is also an official CNBC contributor. Read more »

Emma Llansó joined Center for Democracy & Technology in 2009 as an Equal Justice Works Fellow sponsored by the Bruce J. Ennis Foundation. Her fellowship project focused on analyzing legislative, regulatory, and policy proposals aimed at addressing online child safety and privacy concerns for their potential impact on free expression online. This project involved the full range of CDT's domestic free expression policy work, which includes amicus activity in First Amendment cases, defending Internet intermediary liability protections in the U.S. Read more »

For the past 30 years, Stephen Balkam has had a wide range of leadership roles in the nonprofit sector in the both the US and UK. He is currently the Founder and CEO of the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI), an international, nonprofit organization headquartered in Washington, DC. FOSI’s mission is to make the online world safer for kids and their families. FOSI convenes the top thinkers and practitioners in government, industry and the nonprofit sectors to collaborate and innovate and to create a “culture of responsibility” in the online world. Read more »