• 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.