Eli Noam

Eli M. Noam (1946-) is a professor of Finance and Economics at the Columbia Business School. Since he started working there in 1976, his time at the school was split by a brief stint as Commissioner of the New York State Public Service Commission. He has also taught at Columbia Law School, the Princeton University Economics Department, the Woodrow Wilson School (1975-1976), and the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland (1998-2000). Noam returned to the business school in 1990 where he now serves as the director of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, a research center at the school. CITI is a university-based research center focusing on strategy, management, and policy issues in telecommunications, computing, and electronic mass media. In addition to leading CITI's research activities, Noam initiated the MBA concentration in the Management of Media, Communications, and Information at the Business School and the Virtual Institute of Information, an independent, web-based research facility. Besides the over 400 articles in economics, legal, communications, and other journals that Professor Noam has written on subjects such as communications, information, public choice, public finance, and general regulation, he has also authored, edited, and co-edited more than 25 books.

Additionally, he is married to Nadine Strossen, National President, ACLU.

Present Positions

Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia Business School; 1976-present
Director, Columbia University Institute for Tele-Information; 1983-1987, 1991-present

Education

Harvard: A.B. 1970 (Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude thesis); A.M. 1972; J.D. 1975;
Ph.D. Economics, 1975, Dissertation advisor: Martin Feldstein.
Honorary Doctorate, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, 2004

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.

Selected Government Service

Commissioner, New York State Public Service Commission. 1987-1990.
President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC), 2003-

Selected Government Boards

General Services Administration, FTS-2000 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

Boards and Advisory Boards

Electronic Privacy Infromation Center (EPIC)
European Institute on the Media
France Telecom Scientific Advisory Board
Intek Corporation
Trustee, Jones International University (online college)
Minority Media Telecommunications Council
Oxford Internet Institute

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.

Grants

National Science Foundation: "Technical Innovation under Monopoly and Competition: Established Cable Television Franchises and the State of the Art".
National Science Foundation, "The Impact of New Information Technology on the Service Sector".
National Science Foundation, "The Dynamics of One-Sided Liberalization".
Fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the United States: "The Growing Divergence of American and European Telecommunications Infrastructure and its Implications for Information Supply."
Resident Fellow, Freedom Forum Media Studies Center, 1994-95.
Association of Academic Health Centers, Annual Award Lectureship, 1997.
Obtained support for telecom and media research center activities at Columbia University from over 50 companies and organizations from 15 countries.
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, obtained award of multi-year grant for national research center on the telecom industry, 2000; renewed,2003; renewed 2006.
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, grant for project, “Remedies for Telecommunications Recovery,” 2002.
Recognition Award, American Economic Association, Transportation and Public Utilities Group Fellow, DeSantis Center for Film Studies, 2006

Books (authored, edited, 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)
Mobile Media Content and Services for Wireless Communications, Jo Groebel, Eli Noam and Valerie Feldman, editors (Erlbaum, 2005)
The New Economy, Eli Noam, Thomas Hazlett, Lawrence Lessig, Richard Epstein (in Japanese, 2005)

Forthcoming Books and Books in Progress

Media Ownership and Concentration in America, Eli Noam (forthcoming 2007, Oxford University Press)
The Dark Side of the Internet, monograph.
Media Management (textbook)
Peer to Peer Video as a Distribution Medium, Eli Noam and Lorenzo Pupillo, editors (forthcoming)

Military Services

Israel Air Force. Six-Day War 1967, October War 1973.
Civil Air Patrol , 1st Lt., active, Mission Pilot for Search and Rescue, New York Wing, Phoenix Squadron

Memberships

New York and D.C. Bars; Council on Foreign Relations: Fellow, World Economic Forum.

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