FCC Chairman Genachowski: Innovation and the Impact of Technology/Broadband on the Economy
Chairman Julius Genachowski, who was appointed to the FCC by President Barack Obama and Senate-confirmed to take office in June 2009, will be giving a talk on innovation and how technology/broadband is driving the economy.
The FCC is an independent United States government agency charged with regulating interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable. Some recent issues the FCC has been contending with include Net Neutrality and being asked to mediate the dispute between Cablevision and News Corp, including their blacked-out FOX programming.
In addition to welcoming remarks by President Hultin, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz will attend the talk and Congressman Ed Towns will introduce Chairman Genachowski.
Light refreshments will be served.
RSVP
The NYU-Poly community is invited to attend the talk and participate in an open Q&A, but you must RSVP to president@poly.edu as space will be limited.
Biography of FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski
Julius Genachowski was nominated by President Barack Obama as Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission on March 3, 2009, and sworn into office on June 29, 2009.
Chairman Genachowski has two decades of experience in public service and the private sector. Prior to his appointment, he spent more than 10 years working in the technology industry as an executive and entrepreneur. He co-founded LaunchBox Digital and Rock Creek Ventures, where he served as Managing Director, and he was a Special Advisor at General Atlantic. In these capacities, he worked to start, accelerate, and invest in early- and mid-stage technology and other companies. From 1997-2005, he was a senior executive at IAC/InterActiveCorp, a Fortune 500 company, where his positions included Chief of Business Operations and General Counsel.
Genachowski's public service spanned broadly across government. His confirmation as FCC Chairman returns him to the agency where, from 1994 until 1997, he served as Chief Counsel to FCC Chairman Reed Hundt, and, before that, as Special Counsel to then-FCC General Counsel (later Chairman) William Kennard. Previously, he was a law clerk at the U.S. Supreme Court for Justice David Souter and Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. (ret.), and at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit for Chief Judge Abner Mikva. Genachowski also worked in Congress for then-U.S. Representative (now Senator) Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), and on the staff of the House select committee investigating the Iran-Contra Affair.
Genachowski has been active at the intersection of social responsibility and the marketplace. He was part of the founding group of New Resource Bank, which specializes in serving the needs of green entrepreneurs and sustainable businesses, and has served on the Advisory Board of Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2). He also served as a board member of Common Sense Media, a leading non-partisan, non-profit organization seeking to improve the media lives of children and families.
Genachowski received a J.D. from Harvard Law School (magna cum laude), where he was co-Notes Editor of the Harvard Law Review. He received a B.A. from Columbia College (magna cum laude), where he was Editor of Columbia Spectator's Broadway Magazine, re-established Columbia's oldest newspaper (Acta Columbiana), and was a writer and researcher for Fred Friendly. He was also a certified Emergency Medical Technician who served on the Columbia Area Volunteer Ambulance, and taught cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
Genachowski, a son of immigrants, is married to Rachel Goslins and has three children.