Jeffrey A. Eisenach, Ph.D., Chairman

Jeffrey A. Eisenach is Chairman and a Managing Partner at Empiris LLC, a Washington, DC-based economics consulting firm, and an Adjunct Professor at George Mason University Law School. He has more than 25 years experience performing economic analyses of competition, regulatory and public policy issues, and has served in senior policy positions at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the White House Office of Management and Budget. He has also served on the faculties of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Dr. Eisenach’s practice focuses on economic analysis of competition, regulatory, and consumer protection issues. He has submitted expert reports and testified in litigation matters and regulatory proceedings before the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, several state public utility commissions, and regulatory authorities in Australia, Canada, and South America. He has also testified before Congress on multiple occasions. In 2006, he served as a testifying expert witness for the U.S. Department of Justice in ACLU v. Gonzalez, the landmark litigation on the constitutionality of the Child Online Protection Act.

He is the author or co-author of eight books, including The Digital Economy Fact Book, The Telecom Revolution: An American Opportunity, and America’s Fiscal Future: Controlling the Federal Deficit in the 1990s. In addition, he has edited or co-edited five books, including Communications Deregulation and FCC Reform: What Comes Next? and Competition, Innovation and the Microsoft Monopoly: Antitrust in the Digital Marketplace. His articles have appeared in scholarly journals as well as in such popular outlets as Forbes, Investors Business Daily, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and The Washington Times.

Prior to joining Empiris, Eisenach served as Chairman of Criterion Economics and, previously, as Chairman of CapAnalysis, the economic consulting arm of the world’s largest antitrust law firm, Howrey LLC. Among his other previous affiliations, Dr. Eisenach has served as President and Senior Fellow at The Progress & Freedom Foundation; as a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, the Heritage Foundation and the Hudson Institute; as a consultant to the U.S. Sentencing Commission (on corporate sentencing guidelines); and, as a member of the 1980-81 Reagan-Bush Transition Team on the Federal Trade Commission, the 2000-2001 Bush-Cheney Transition Team on the Federal Communications Commission, the Virginia Governor’s Commission on E-Communities, and the Virginia Attorney General’s Task Force on Identity Theft. He is currently a member of the board of directors of Intelligent Grid Solutions LLC, and serves on the advisory boards of the Pew Project on the Internet and American Life and the Washington Mutual Investors Fund. He is also a member of the Economic Club of Washington.

He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Virginia and a B.A. in economics from Claremont McKenna College.

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