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OPAD Staff Biographies
Eric
R. Stark
Associate Administrator for the Office of Policy Analysis
and Development
(202) 482-1880
estark@ntia.doc.gov
Eric R. Stark serves as Associate Administrator for the
Office of Policy Analysis and Development in the Commerce
Department’s National Telecommunications and Information
Administration (NTIA). In this capacity, he directs the
department that conducts research and analysis and prepares
policy recommendations for the Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information. Mr. Stark
was appointed to the post on July 11, 2005.
NTIA serves as the principal adviser to the President
on telecommunications and information policy. In this
role, NTIA formulates, advocates, and participates in
the implementation of policies, frequently working with
other Executive Branch agencies to develop and present
the Administration's position. Since its creation in 1978,
NTIA has been at the cutting edge of critical technology
issues.
The Office of Policy Analysis and Development (OPAD) is
the domestic policy division of NTIA. OPAD supports NTIA's
role as principal adviser to the Executive Branch and
the Secretary of Commerce on telecommunications and information
policies by conducting research and analysis and preparing
policy recommendations. The office generates policies
that promote innovation, competition, and economic growth
for the benefit of American businesses and consumers,
and is focused on fulfilling President Bush’s national
goal of affordable broadband Internet access for all Americans
by 2007.
Prior to his service in the Administration, Mr. Stark
was Global Account Director for AT&T in San Francisco,
California, responsible for leading a worldwide sales
team for one of AT&T's largest accounts. From 1998
to 2002, he was Regional Sales Manager for AT&T in
Los Angeles, California. Prior to that, Mr. Stark served
in a variety of sales and operations roles for AT&T
in both business and consumer markets. Mr. Stark received
his B.A. in Economics and Business from Westmont College
in Santa Barbara and an M.B.A. from the University of
Southern California in 1996. He and his wife Sabrina were
married in 1993 and have two children.
Joe
Gattuso
Senior Policy Advisor
(202) 482-0977
jgattuso@ntia.doc.gov
In his over 16 years at NTIA, Joe
has worked on a broad range of matters in various capacities,
including Acting Director of the Office of Policy Analysis
and Development and Acting Director of Congressional Affairs.
Joe’s area of concentration is spectrum management
theory and the regulation of commercial wireless services.
He is currently detailed to NTIA’s Office of the
Assistant Secretary where he is coordinating NTIA’s
implementation of the President’s Initiative on
Spectrum Policy for the 21st Century and helping to establish
the Commerce Spectrum Management Advisory Committee. In
2004, Joe spent over five months in Baghdad, Iraq, on
detail to the Coalition Provisional Authority as an advisor
to Iraq’s Ministry of Communications and National
Communications and Media Commission. While there he led
a legal and regulatory team responsible for establishing
an independent regulatory commission, acting as a provisional
regulator, and advising on the development of a basic
communications law and related issues. He also prepared
and submitted documents to begin the process of redelegation
of the “Dot-IQ” country code top level domain
to Iraq through application to the Internet Corporation
for Assigned Names and Numbers. Joe received a BA from
Stanford University and a JD from the UCLA School of Law,
where he participated in the Communications Law Program.
After law school, Joe practiced law in his home state
of California for several years until moving to Washington.
Alfred
Lee
Senior Advisor
(202) 482-1878
alee@ntia.doc.gov
Alfred Lee is currently Senior Advisor in the Office of
Policy Analysis and Development (OPAD) at the National
Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA),
U.S. Department of Commerce, where he has also served
as Acting Associate Administrator. Specializing in telecommunications
policy research, Lee has managed and developed national
policy initiatives to enhance competition and reduce regulation
in the telecommunications marketplace. He has shaped,
managed the development of, and articulated numerous agency
positions on a wide variety of issues, involving telephony,
cable television, and information services. His more recent
work has focused on issues related to the emergence of
markets for new technologies and services, including digital
television services, the commercialization of the Internet,
and new Internet technical standards. Lee has coauthored
several books and numerous monographs and articles related
to his telecommunications policy research interests. Lee
earned his M.S. and PhD. from Cornell University and his
B.S.E.E. from the University of Illinois. He has served
as a consultant to the National Science Foundation, as
an Associate Editor of the IEEE Technology and Society
Magazine, and as a program organizer for the Telecommunication
Policy Research Conference. He is an elected member of
Sigma Xi, a scientific research honorary society and has
received numerous commendations for his work at the U.S.
Department of Commerce.
Maureen
A. Lewis
Director of
the Minority Telecommunications Development Program
(202) 482-1892
mlewis@ntia.doc.gov
Ms. Lewis joined NTIA as the Director
of the Minority Telecommunications Development Program
in January 2000. In that role, she is responsible for
developing policy and analyzing proposed legislation and
regulations to increase minority ownership of broadcast
and telecommunications enterprises. She wrote a report
titled Changes, Challenges, and Charting New Courses:
Minority Commercial Broadcast Ownership in the United
States. She also serves as a senior policy analyst
and advises on such issues as media, broadband deployment,
federal rights-of-way, Internet domain names, and small
business development. Previously, Ms. Lewis served as
general counsel of the Alliance for Public Technology,
where she successfully petitioned the Federal Communications
Commission to initiate a proceeding to evaluate the pace
of broadband deployment in the United States. She also
served as senior counsel for Howard University, where
she represented the university’s radio, television,
and publishing operations. Ms. Lewis began her career
at the Federal Trade Commission as an antitrust attorney
and advisor for Commissioner Mary Azcuenaga. She received
her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington,
DC and her B.A., cum laude, in Economics from Spelman
College in Atlanta, GA. She is a member of the bar of
the District of Columbia and of the United States Supreme
Court.
James
McConnaughey
Senior Economist
(202) 482-3161
jmcconnaughey@ntia.doc.gov
James McConnaughey serves as Senior Economist, National
Telecommunications & Information Administration's
(NTIA) Office of Policy Analysis and Development, at the
US Department of Commerce. Prior to NTIA, he was Research
Manager at Bethesda Research Institute and Senior Economist
at the Federal Communications Commission. Mr. McConnaughey
has worked on a variety of issues related to regulatory
reform, competition, and universal service. In recent
years, he has focused particularly on universal service
and issues related to Internet access and usage, including
broadband. The senior economist has co-authored two books
and a law journal article, contributed several book chapters,
and made numerous presentations on U.S. telecommunications
policy in the United States and countries such as Belgium,
Botswana, Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, and the UK.
He recently led the team that developed the Commerce Department
broadband study, A
Nation Online. McConnaughey earned a B.S. (with
high honors) and an M.A. in economics from the University
of Maryland and the George Washington University, respectively,
and an M.P.A. (with high honors) as Robert Seamans Fellow
for Technology & Public Policy and Lucius Littauer
Scholar at Harvard University.
Sallianne
F. Schagrin
Telecommunications
Policy Analyst
(202) 482-1885
sschagrin@ntia.doc.gov
Since January 2000, Ms. Schagrin has served as a telecommunications
policy analyst for NTIA’s Office of Policy Analysis
and Development. Ms. Schagrin analyzes and develops policy
relating to electronic commerce including, privacy and
security, consumer protection, child online protection,
spam, identity theft, electronic signatures, domain names
and new technologies. Most recently, she coordinated a
conference for NTIA on wireless security threats to identify
issues and solutions related to vulnerabilities that threaten
consumer and industry security and privacy using wireless
communications. Ms. Schagrin also manages NTIA’s
kids.us educational campaign as mandated by Congress under
the Dot Kids Implementation Act of 2002, which designates
the kids.us space for child appropriate online content.
Additionally, Ms. Schagrin has authored several reports
for NTIA, including a report to Congress on the “Children’s
Internet Protection Act,” studying the effectiveness
of Internet safety policies and technology protection
measures and the Commission for Child Online Protection
Act (COPA) report to Congress analyzing methods to protect
minors from inappropriate online content, including the
impact on free speech and consumer privacy. Ms. Schagrin
received her B.A. from Western Washington University in
Bellingham, Washington and her J.D. from The American
University’s Washington College of Law.
Timothy
C. Sloan
Analyst
(202) 482-1899
tsloan@ntia.doc.gov
Mr. Sloan is an analyst in the Domestic Policy Office
of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration.
He has been with NTIA since January 1986, and has more
than 20 years experience in all phases of telecommunications
and cable television law and policy. Before coming to
NTIA, Mr. Sloan was Associate General Counsel of the National
Cable Television Association, a regulatory attorney with
Bell Atlantic, and an associate at Wilkinson, Cragun,
and Barker, a Washington communications law firm. Mr.
Sloan graduated from Georgetown University in 1976 with
a degree in government. He received a law degree in 1979
from Duke University Law School.
Contact
Office of
Policy Analysis and Development
National Telecommunications & Information Administration
U.S. Department of Commerce
1401 Constitution Avenue, N.W., Room 4725
Washington, D.C. 20230
Voice: (202) 482-1880 · Fax: (202) 482-6173
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