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Technology and Regulation Program Fellows

M-RCBG appoints fellows in a variety of programs. In addition to the fellows listed below, please see additional listings here.

Eugene Kimmelman | Chris Miller | Nancy Rose | Jon Sallet | Tom Wheeler 

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Eugene Kimmelman

Eugene Kimmelman served as Deputy Associate Attorney General, Office of the Associate Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice January 2021 until August 2022, where he oversaw the Antitrust and Tax Divisions and the U.S. Trustees Program for the Associate Attorney General. From 2014-2020 he was President and CEO, and then Senior Advisor, at Public Knowledge, managing competition policy advocacy, state and federal antitrust enforcement efforts, and legal scholarship to preserve competition and promote public welfare in the technology sector. Previous positions include Director, Internet Freedom & Human Rights, New America Foundation; and Chief Counsel Competition Policy and Intergovernmental Affairs, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice. He is Senior Policy Fellow at Yale University’s Tobin Economic Policy Center, and a Senior Research Fellow at M-RCBG, where he will contribute to a seminar series on Big Tech, global tech policy and tech regulation. E-mail: eugene_kimmelman@hks.harvard.edu

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Chris Miller

Chris Miller is Associate Professor of International History at The Fletcher School, where his research focuses on technology, geopolitics, economics, international affairs, and Russia. He is author of Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology, a geopolitical history of the computer chip. He is the author of three other books on Russia, including Putinomics: Power and Money in Resurgent Russia; We Shall Be Masters: Russia's Pivots to East Asia from Peter the Great to Putin; and The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy: Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR. He has previously served as the Associate Director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy at Yale, a lecturer at the New Economic School in Moscow, a visiting researcher at the Carnegie Moscow Center, a research associate at the Brookings Institution, and as a fellow at the German Marshall Fund's Transatlantic Academy. He received his PhD and MA from Yale University and his BA in history from Harvard University

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Nancy Rose

Nancy Rose is the Charles P. Kindleberger Professor in the MIT Economics Department, where her research and teaching focus on industrial organization, competition policy, and the economics of regulation.  Her recent research on the economic and legal foundations for more effective antitrust enforcement builds on her experience as the DAAG for Economic Analysis in the DOJ Antitrust Division from 2014 through 2016.  She directed the National Bureau of Economic Research program in Industrial Organization from its inception in 1991 through 2014, and is a current NBER Research Associate.

Rose has been recognized with a number of professional honors and awards, including election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Carolyn Shaw Bell Award from the American Economic Association’s (AEA) Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, the Industrial Organization Society Distinguished Fellow award, MIT’s Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellowship, and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, among others.  She was a fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study for 2021-22.  Rose currently serves as President of the Industrial Organization Society (IOS), Vice President of the Western Economics Association International, and on the advisory boards of the American Antitrust Institute, the Hamilton Project, and the Journal of Economic Perspectives.  She is a member of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) Research and Policy Network on Competition Policy. Her past professional service includes terms as Vice President and Executive Committee member of the AEA, Vice President of the IOS, and on a number of editorial boards.

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Jon Sallet

Jonathan Sallet currently serves as a special assistant attorney general for the State of Colorado. Prior governmental service includes an appointment as general counsel of the Federal Communications Commission, deputy assistant attorney general for litigation in the antitrust division of the U.S. Department of Justice, and director of the Office of Policy & Strategic Planning for the U.S. Department of Commerce. His publications concentrate on antitrust issues, including Louis Brandeis: A Man for This Season, 16 Colo. Tech. L.J. 365 (2018), and, with Professor Nancy Rose, The Dichotomous Treatment of Efficiencies in Horizontal Mergers: Too Much? Too Little? Getting it Right, 168 U Penn L. Rev. 1941 (2020), which has been named a winner of the 2021 Jerry S. Cohen Award for Antitrust Scholarship. Jonathan Sallet is a Senior Research Fellow at M-RCBG where he will contribute to a seminar series on Big Tech, global tech policy and tech regulation, while collaborating on a paper on related topics. Email: jsallet@hks.harvard.edu

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Tom Wheeler

Tom Wheeler is a businessman and author and was Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from 2013 to 2017. He is currently a Senior Research Fellow at M-RCBG where he will contribute to a seminar series on Big Tech, global tech policy and tech regulation, while collaborating on a paper on related topics. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution and holds a joint appointment as a Senior Fellow at vlog’ Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy . For over four decades, Wheeler has been involved with new telecommunications networks and services. At the FCC he led the efforts that resulted in the adoption of Net Neutrality, privacy protections for consumers, and increased cybersecurity, among other policies. As an entrepreneur, he started or helped start multiple companies offering innovative cable, wireless and video communications services. He is the only person to be selected to both the Cable Television Hall of Fame and the Wireless Hall of Fame, a fact President Obama joked made him “the Bo Jackson of telecom.” Tom Wheeler’s newest book is From Gutenberg to Google: The History of Our Future (Brookings Press, 2019). He is also the author of Take Command: Leadership Lessons from the Civil War (Doubleday, 2000), and Mr. Lincoln’s T-Mails: The Untold Story of How Abraham Lincoln Used the Telegraph to Win the Civil War (HarperCollins, 2006). Email: thomas_wheeler@hks.harvard.edu