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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 | 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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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