Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy Announces Fellows for 2009-2010 Academic Year

Research Center Expands Program to Incorporate New Policy Expertise

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy (GCBPP) today announced its Senior Fellows for the 2009-2010 academic year. New members include Senior Policy Fellows Robert Hahn and Jodi Short, as well as Senior Industry and Innovation Fellow Carolyn Brandon. They bring their expertise in issue areas spanning telecommunications, technology and innovation policy, Internet policy, industrial organization, regulation and deregulation, law and economics, and antitrust.

At the core of GCBPP is an active group of Fellows whose research interests center on vital economic issues facing the global economy, competition and innovation. Over the academic year, the Fellows develop seminars and programs, craft Economic Policy Vignettes, and participate in a variety of activities. The Fellows are a key element to the Center’s mission of engaging leading scholars, business people and policymakers in meaningful dialog regarding issues that lie at the nexus of business and public policy.

Returning Senior Policy Fellows for 2009-2010 include the following:

T. Christopher Borek, Analysis Group

Antonio Fatas, INSEAD

J. Bradford Jensen, McDonough School of Business

Josh Lerner, Harvard Business School

Thomas P. Lyon, University of Michigan

Jeffrey T. Macher, McDonough School of Business

Robert J. Shapiro, Sonecon, LLC

Scott Wallsten, Technology Policy Institute

Catherine Wolfram, UC Berkeley

“This year we have a truly impressive group that continues our ongoing efforts to expand our policy knowledge,” said John Mayo, Executive Director of the GCBPP. “We are working to broaden our capabilities, incorporating a wider array of issue expertise into the program, in turn leading to a larger dialogue.”

For additional information on each individual Fellow, visit the Center’s Web site at http://cbpp.georgetown.edu/staff/.

About the Center for Business and Public Policy

The Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy is a non-partisan research center designed to engage scholars, business people and policymakers in relevant inquiries and dialogue to impact key business, economic and ethical public policy issues confronting American and international businesses today. The Center is one of three research centers at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. For more information, visit http://cbpp.georgetown.edu/.

SOURCE Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy