The United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM),known until 2018 as the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG),is an independent agency of the United States government that broadcasts news and information. It is considered an arm of U.S. diplomacy.
ZoëEliot Baird is an American lawyer and president of the Markle Foundation. She is known for her role in the Nannygate matter of 1993,which arose when she was nominated by President Bill Clinton as the first woman to be Attorney General of the United States,but she withdrew her nomination when it was discovered she had hired illegal aliens and failed to pay Social Security taxes for them. Since 1998,she has led the Markle Foundation.
William Earl Kennard is an American attorney and former government official. Kennard served as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from 1997 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton,and was the first African American to lead the agency. In 2009,Kennard was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve as Ambassador to the European Union,serving until 2013.
Robert J. Shapiro is the cofounder and chairman of Sonecon,LLC,a United States private consultancy for economic and security-related issues that has built a reputation on a range of policy matters,including climate change,intellectual property,securities fraud,healthcare reform,demographics,the resilience of the electric grid to cyberattacks,and blockchain technologies. He is known for advising public officials,including President Bill Clinton,UK Prime Minister Tony Blair,senior members of the Obama cabinet and administration,numerous US senators and representatives,and the Director of the International Monetary Fund. He also has advised senior executives of numerous Fortune 100 companies.
Mark Aurel Landler is an American journalist who is the London bureau chief of The New York Times. He was previously a White House Correspondent,based in Washington,D.C.
The Internet in the United States grew out of the ARPANET,a network sponsored by the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the U.S. Department of Defense during the 1960s. The Internet in the United States in turn provided the foundation for the worldwide Internet of today.
Michael Braverman Goodman Froman is an American lawyer who served as the U.S. Trade Representative from 2013 to 2017. He was Assistant to the President of the United States and Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economic Affairs,a position held jointly at the National Security Council and the National Economic Council. In that position he served as the United States sherpa to the G7,G8,and G20 summits of economic powers. On May 2,2013,President Barack Obama nominated him to succeed Ambassador Ron Kirk as the U.S. Trade Representative. He was confirmed on June 19,2013.
Julius Genachowski is an American lawyer and businessman. He became the Federal Communications Commission Chairman on June 29,2009. On March 22,2013,he announced he would be leaving the FCC in the coming weeks. On January 6,2014,it was announced that Genachowski had joined The Carlyle Group.
Kevin Werbach is an American academic,businessman and author. In 2002,he founded the Supernova Group,a technology analysis and consulting firm. Since 2004,Werbach is an Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at The Wharton School,University of Pennsylvania. He writes about business,policy,and social implications of emerging Internet and communications technologies.
Nancy Helen Sutley led the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) for five years during the administration of Barack Obama. She was unanimously confirmed for that post by the United States Senate on January 22,2009. The CEQ coordinates federal environmental efforts and works with agencies other than White House offices in the development of environmental policies and initiatives;the chair serves as the principal environmental policy advisor to the president.
Susan P. Crawford is the John A. Reilly Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. She served as President Barack Obama's Special Assistant for Science,Technology,and Innovation Policy (2009) and is a columnist for WIRED. She is a former Board Member of ICANN,the founder of OneWebDay,and a legal scholar. Her research focuses on telecommunications and information law.
Connecting America:The National Broadband Plan is a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) plan to improve Internet access in the United States. The FCC was directed to create the plan by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009,and unveiled its plan on March 16,2010.
Meredith Attwell Baker is the president and chief executive officer of CTIA,an industry trade group that represents the international wireless telecommunications industry. From 2009 to 2011,Baker was a member of the United States Federal Communications Commission,nominated by U.S. President Barack H. Obama. She also served in the National Telecommunications and Information Administration as a political appointee,and was subsequently named a deputy assistant secretary of the Commerce Department by President George W. Bush in February 2007.
Clarence "Larry" Irving Jr. is the former Vice President of Global Government Affairs for Hewlett-Packard Company. He joined the company on September 9,2009 and left in 2011.
Broadband universal service,also known as "universal service obligation" (USO) or "universal broadband service",refers to government efforts to ensure all citizens have access to the internet. Universal voice service obligations have been expanded to include broadband service obligations in Switzerland,Finland,Spain and the UK.
Thomas Amadeus Kalil is an expert on technology and innovation policy,and is currently the Chief Innovation Officer at Schmidt Futures. He was previously Deputy Director for Policy in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy under President Obama,and was also the Senior Advisor for Science,Technology and Innovation for the United States National Economic Council.
Beth Frances Cobert is an American businesswoman and has been a government official. She served as the acting Director for the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM) from July 10,2015 to January 20,2017. As of March 2021,she is Chief Operating Officer of the Markle Foundation and Chief Executive Officer of Skillful,an initiative of that foundation.
The Foreign Affairs Policy Board is an advisory board that provides independent advice and opinion to the Secretary of State,the Deputy Secretary of State,and the Director of Policy Planning on matters concerning U.S. foreign policy. The Board reviews and assesses global threats and opportunities,trends that implicate core national security interests,tools and capacities of the civilian foreign affairs agencies,and priorities and strategic frameworks for U.S. foreign policy. The Board meets in a plenary session several times a year at the U.S. Department of State in the Harry S. Truman Building.
Philip Jacob Weiser is an American lawyer and politician who has served as the 39th Colorado Attorney General,since 2019. He is the Hatfield Professor of Law and Telecommunications,Executive Director and Founder of the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law,Technology,and Entrepreneurship,and Dean Emeritus at the University of Colorado Law School. He previously served in the Obama and Clinton Administrations in the White House and Justice Department. A member of the Democratic Party,he was elected Attorney General for the State of Colorado in the 2018 election,defeating Republican George Brauchler on November 6,2018. He was re-elected in 2022.
