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(Originally aired: 10-11-96)                                                  DR. ELI NOAM                                                                Professor of Economics and Finance                                  Columbia University                                                                             Director:                 Columbia University Institute                   for Tele-Communications               Columbia University Institute for Tele-Information                                                  noam@columbia.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The program can be viewed in its entirety by clicking the you tube link below:   Eli Noam Ph.D - (part 1 - 50 mins.) Original Air date: 11-18-96 - ELI NOAM Ph.D ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The program can be viewed in its entirety by clicking the you tube link below:   Eli Noam Ph.D - (Part 2 - 8 mins.)  Original air date: 11-15-96 - ELI NOAM Ph.D   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- More about: DR. ELI NOAM   Eli M. Noam Director - CITI Professor of Finance and Economics   Uris Hall, Suite 1A 3022 Broadway, Columbia University New York, NY 10027 Phone: 212-854-8332 Fax: 212-854-1471 Email: noam@columbia.edu   Selected Post-1995 Articles   Curriculum Vitae   Selected Op-Eds   Courses   Recent Activities   Pictures   Eli Noam has been Professor of Economics and Finance at the Columbia Business School since 1976. In 1990, after having served for three years as Commissioner with the New York State Public Service Commission, he returned to Columbia. He is the Director of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information. 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 about 25 books. 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 adviser: Martin Feldstein. 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 Goverment Service: Comissioner, New York State Public Service Commission. 1987-1990. President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC), 2003-Present 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 (selective): 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. Books (authored, edited and 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) Forthcoming Books and Books in Progress: The Dark Side of the Internet, monograph. Media Management (textbook) Mobile Media Content and Services for Wireless Communications, Jo Groebel, Eli Noam and Valerie Feldman, editors (forthcoming Erlbaum, 2005) Media Ownership and Concentration in America, Eli Noam (forthcoming 2005, Oxford University Press) The New Economy, Eli Noam, Thomas Hazlett, Lawrence Lessig, Richard Epstein (forthcoming, in Japanese, 2005) Peer to Peer Video as a Distribution Medium, Eli Noam and Darcy Gerbarg, editors (forthcoming) After the Spectrum Frontier, David Salant, editor, (forthcoming) Military Service: 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 Personal: U.S. Citizen. Born 1946. Married to Nadine Strossen, National President, ACLU. Radio Amateur Advanced Class. Commercially rated multi-engine pilot. Memberships: New York and D.C. Bars; Council on Foreign Relations: Fellow, World Economic Forum.