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 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He holds a joint appointment with the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Laboratory for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence.

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 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 the 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 (since 2011) and the University of California at Berkeley (1997- 2009). Before beginning his academic and government career, Mr. Shelanski practiced law and served as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice , 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.