Eli Noam

Professor of Economics and Garrett Professor of Public Policy and Business Responsibility, emeritus. Director of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, a research center focusing on management and policy issues in telecommunications, internet, and electronic mass media. Served as Public Services Commissioner of New York State. Appointed by the White House to the President’s IT Advisory Committee. Also taught at Columbia Law School, Princeton University’s Economics Department and Woodrow Wilson School, and the Swiss universities of St. Gallen and Fribourg. Published 37 books and over 350 articles, and was a regular columnist for the Financial Times online edition. Recent books: Digitized Labor (2018); Managing Media and Digital Organizations (1.9 million downloads 2020); Media and Digital Management (1.8 million downloads 2020); Technology, Business, and Economics of Streaming Video (2021); as well as the award-winning books Who Owns the World’s Media (2016) and Content, Impact, and Regulation of Streaming Video (2021). President of International Media Management Academic Association, 2013-2015. At Columbia University Senate, Chair of Budget and of Benefits committees (until 2022).

Advisory boards: Federal government’s telecommunications network; IRS computer system; National Computer Systems Lab; National Commission on Status of Women in Computing; Governor’s Task Force on New Media; Intek Corporation; Nexus Mundi Foundation (telemedicine in Africa); Oxford Internet Institute; Electronic Privacy Information Center; Minority Media Council. IT Advisory boards for governments of Ireland and Sweden. Fellow of World Economic Forum, member Council on Foreign Relations. Commercially rated pilot. Served in the Israel Air Force in 1967 and 1973 wars; search & rescue pilot with the Civil Air Patrol (1st Lt.). Married to Nadine Strossen, law professor and former national president of the American Civil Liberties Union. AB, AM, Ph.D (Economics) and JD from Harvard University, and honorary doctorates from University of Munich and University of Marseilles.