Jeffrey Eisenach

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Jeffrey A. Eisenach is an American economist. [1] He is a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, [2] [3] and has a position with National Economic Research Associates, a consulting company. [4] Eisenach has participated as an expert in government evaluations of economic and state utility issues in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and South America.[ third-party source needed ]

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In 2016, Eisenach served on then President-Elect Donald Trump's transition team as a member of the Federal Communications Commission agency landing team. [5] [6] Eisenach's participation on this landing team was notable for his industry ties and past advocacy for deregulation of telecommunications companies. [7]

Eisenach attended Claremont Men's College, now Claremont McKenna College, in Claremont, California. [8]

Controversies

In the 1990s, Eisenach was a close associate of Newt Gingrich. He headed GOPAC, and later the Progress and Freedom Foundation, which Gingrich used to raise tax-exempt funds for his Renewing American Civilization campaign. [8] [9] Speaker Gingrich was later reprimanded by the House of Representatives by a vote of 395-28 and fined $300,000 for providing untrue information to a House Ethics Committee investigation of the matter. [10]

In 2016, The New York Times found that Eisenach advocated against proposed net neutrality regulations in his capacity as an American Enterprise Institute (AEI) visiting scholar, including publishing AEI working papers, inviting FCC officials to speak out against net neutrality at both private and public AEI events, and testifying before congress regarding the potential harms of net neutrality using his AEI title, while simultaneously working as a paid consultant for Verizon and Verizon's trade association, GSMA. The report found that Eisenach rarely disclosed this conflict of interest in his policy work as a scholar at AEI. [11]

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References

  1. ↑ "Jeffrey A. Eisenach". www.nera.com. Retrieved 2024-09-13.
  2. ↑ "AEI Welcomes Economist Jeffrey Eisenach as New Visiting Scholar". www.aei.org. 22 August 2012. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  3. ↑ Jeffrey Eisenach. American Enterprise Institute.
  4. ↑ "About NERA". www.nera.com. Retrieved 2024-09-13.
  5. ↑ Donald Trump presidential transition team. BallotPedia. Accessed March 2020.
  6. ↑ Tony Romm (7 October 2016). Trump transition team picks regulation foe as telecom point man. Politico. Accessed March 2020.
  7. ↑ Eric Lipton (12 November 2016). Trump Campaigned Against Lobbyists, but Now They’re on His Transition Team. The New York Times". Accessed March 2020.
  8. 1 2 Robert Dawidoff (1 January 1995). Twisting History: Newt Gingrich's "history lessons" are just political indoctrination. Los Angeles Times. Accessed January 2017.
  9. ↑ Roger Parloff (5 December 2011). Newt Gingrich and his sleazy ways: A history lesson. Fortune. Accessed January 2017.
  10. ↑ Adam Clymer (26 January 1997). The 'Teacher of the Rules of Civilization' Gets a Scolding. The New York Times. Accessed March 2020.
  11. ↑ Eric Lipton, Nicholas Confessore, and Brooke Williams (8 August 2016). Think Tank Scholar or Corporate Consultant? It Depends on the Day. The New York Times. Accessed March 2020.
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