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Michael
K. Powell is Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.
He was sworn in as a member of the Commission on November 3,
1997. He was designated Chairman by President Bush on January
22, 2001.
Mr. Powell, a Republican, was
nominated by President William J. Clinton on July 31, 1997, and
confirmed by the United States Senate on October 28, 1997.
In addition to his normal
duties, Mr. Powell serves as the FCC's Defense Chairman and is
responsible for overseeing all National Security Emergency
Preparedness functions for the Commission. He also served as the
FCC representative to the President's Council on Year 2000
Conversion which was established by President Clinton on
February 4, 1998, to address the Year 2000 computer problem.
Mr. Powell previously served as
the Chief of Staff of the Antitrust Division in the Department
of Justice. In that capacity, he advised the Assistant Attorney
General on substantive antitrust matters, including policy
development, criminal and civil investigations and mergers.
Prior to joining the Antitrust Division, Mr. Powell was an
associate in the Washington, D.C. office of the law firm of
O'Melveny & Myers LLP, where he focused on litigation and
regulatory matters involving telecommunications, antitrust and
employment law. Mr. Powell graduated from the Georgetown
University Law Center following which he served as a judicial
clerk to the Honorable Harry T. Edwards, Chief Judge of the
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
Circuit.
Before attending law school,
Mr. Powell served as a policy advisor to the Secretary of
Defense on matters involving the United States-Japan security
relationship. Mr. Powell's experience also includes military
service as an armor officer in the United States Army. He spent
the majority of his active service with the 3/2 Armored Cavalry
Regiment in Amberg, Germany, serving as a cavalry platoon leader
and troop executive officer. While on duty, Mr. Powell was
seriously injured in a training accident and, after spending a
year in the hospital, was retired from service. Mr. Powell
graduated in 1985 from the College of William and Mary with a
degree in Government.
Mr. Powell currently serves on
the Georgetown University Law Center’s Board of Visitors and
the Board of Directors of the United States Telecommunications
Training Institute. He is also a 1999 Henry Crown Fellow of The
Aspen Institute.
Chairman Powell is married to
Jane Knott Powell. They live with their two children, Jeffrey
and Bryan, in Fairfax Station, Virginia
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Robert
Pepper has been Chief of the Office of Plans and Policy (OPP) at
the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) since December 1989.
Under Pepper's leadership, OPP is responsible for policy
questions that cut across traditional industry and institutional
boundaries, especially those arising from the development of new
technologies. At OPP, Pepper's responsibilities have included
leading teams implementing provisions of the Telecommunications
Act of 1996; assessing the development of the Internet and the
broadband markets; designing and implementing the first spectrum
auctions in the United States; developing more market-based
spectrum policies; assessing competition in the video
marketplace; and assessing the impact of the development of the
Internet on traditional communications policy structures.
Before
joining the FCC, Pepper was Director of the Anne berg Washington
Program in Communications Policy Studies. He also has been
Director of Domestic Policies and Acting Associate Administrator
at the National Telecommunications and Information
Administration and developed a program on communications,
computers, and information at the National Science Foundation.
He
is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he
also received his doctorate.
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