Directors Emeritus
Officers
George A. (Jay) Keyworth II, Ph.D.
George A. (Jay) Keyworth II is Senior Fellow and Chairman of the Board of Directors at The Progress & Freedom Foundation. From 1981 to 1985, he served as Science Advisor to President Reagan and, concurrently, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, prior to which he was Director of the physics division at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He received a B.S. in physics from Yale and a Ph.D. in physics from Duke. In addition, he has received a number of awards and honorary degrees. He is a fellow at both the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He serves on the Board of Directors of General Atomics.
Jeffrey A. Eisenach, Ph.D.
Jeff Eisenach co-founded The Progress & Freedom Foundation in 1993 and served as its president for a decade. Eisenach is currently Chairman of Criterion Economics, a consulting firm with offices located in Washington, DC and Cambridge, Mass., that focuses on providing analysis for complex economic litigation and regulatory proceedings. Previously, Eisenach served as Chairman of CapAnalysis, a Washington, DC consulting firm affiliated with the law firm of Howrey & Simon. Eisenach also serves on the faculty of the George Mason University Law School, where he teaches a course on the law and economics of the digital revolution.
Eisenach received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Virginia in 1985, and has served on the faculties of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute (1985-1988) and Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government (1995-1999). His career in public service includes stints as a senior economist at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and two tours of duty at the White House Office of Management and Budget under President Reagan. In 1985 and 1986, he served as chief of staff to OMB Director James C. Miller III.
Eisenach has held positions at the American Enterprise Institute, Heritage Foundation and Hudson Institute. He is the author or editor of several books and is quoted frequently in major publications.
Kathleen Q. Abernathy
Kathleen Q. Abernathy is a Partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP where she advises clients on policy and regulatory issues related to the telecommunications and media fields. Prior to joining Akin Gump, Ms. Abernathy served as a commissioner at the Federal Communications Commission. While at the FCC, Ms. Abernathy chaired the Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service and participated in numerous international bilateral and multilateral negotiations, including the 2002 International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Plenipotentiary Conference and the 2003 ITU World Radiocommunications Conference. She was appointed by the ITU to chair the 2004 ITU Global Symposium for Regulators.
Before joining the FCC as a commissioner, Ms. Abernathy served as vice president, public policy at BroadBand Office Communications; as vice president, regulatory affairs at US West and as vice president, federal regulatory at AirTouch Communications (a predecessor company to Vodafone Communications ). Earlier in her career, she served as a legal advisor to two FCC commissioners and as a special assistant to the agency’s general counsel. Ms. Abernathy received her B.A. magna cum laude from Marquette University in 1982 and her J.D. from Catholic University’s Columbus School of Law in 1983. She is a member of the District of Columbia Bar and the Federal Communications Bar Association.
W. Kenneth Ferree
W. Kenneth Ferree is President of the Progress & Freedom Foundation. Ferree was appointed Chief of the Cable Services Bureau, now the Media Bureau, by FCC Commissioner Powell and served from 2001 to 2005. After his stint at the Federal Communications Commission, Ferree served as an Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Interim CEO at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Prior to his work at the FCC, Ferree practice law with multiple firms, focusing on communications law. Most recently, he led the communications practice group at Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton. Ferree received his law degree at Georgetown University Law Center, his MBA at San Jose State University, and a BA in English from Dartmouth College. Ferree spent six years as an adjunct professor during which time he taught Communications Law and/or Professional Responsibility.
Mark F. Grady
Mark Grady is Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law, where he teaches Torts, Antitrust and Intellectual Property, and is the director of the law school's Center for Law and Economics. He also served as Professor of Law at UCLA between 1992 and 1997. He left UCLA to become Dean and Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law (1997 - 2004), where he founded and organized three academic centers within the school including the National Center for Technology and the Law, and was also responsible for the creation of the Global Internet Summit, the largest annual technology policy event in Northern Virginia. While at George Mason he was the Principal Investigator of the law school's federally funded Critical Infrastructure Protection Project, which he founded. Grady has also taught at Duke, Northwestern and the Universities of San Diego and Iowa law schools. He is a founding trustee of the American Law and Economics Association and the author of numerous books and articles on torts, intellectual property, antitrust, law and economics, and law and biology.
He served as a consultant to the Federal Trade Commission on antitrust and advertising regulatory policy from 1981-85 while teaching at the University of Iowa College of Law. and held various positions with the agency, including Acting Director of the Office of Policy Planning and Evaluation, from 1974-78. He also served on the Task Force on Regulatory Relief, and was appointed Minority Counsel (on antitrust legislation) to the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1979. He holds an A.B. summa cum laude in economics and a J.D. from UCLA. He is an expert in intellectual property, antitrust, torts and law and economics.
Bryce (Larry) Harlow
Larry Harlow is President and Managing Partner of Timmons & Company, Inc. Before joining the company on January 1, 1991, Mr. Harlow served for a decade in six senior Federal Government positions for two Administrations. At the beginning of the Reagan Administration, he was Director of the Office of Legislation at the Environmental Protection Agency and later at the Federal Trade Commission. Mr. Harlow joined the White House as Special Assistant to President Reagan for Legislative Affairs. During the Bush Administration he served as Deputy Under Secretary of the Department of the Treasury and was designated by the President as Assistant Secretary of Treasury for Legislative Affairs.
Peter F. Harter
Peter Harter has been on email since 1986 and began publishing websites in 1993. Networking engineers, scientists, investors, lawyers, journalists, CEOs, and politicians, Peter generates relationship capital. Peter's policy expertise stems from first hand knowledge of innovation and disruption created by emerging technology companies, academia, and individuals.
Peter has managed nonprofit online communities and lobbied for corporations such as Netscape Communications, EMusic.com, and Securify. He advises entrepreneurs in China, Aspen, Silicon Valley, New York City, Washington, DC, London, Austin, Seattle, and Israel.
Presently, Peter is Vice President of Public Affairs for Intellectual Ventures LLC, a firm investing in invention and inventors. He holds a B.A. in Government and Rhetoric from Lehigh University and a J.D. from Villanova University School of Law. Peter has been participating in PFF's Aspen Summit since 1995.
John Rutledge, Ph.D.
Dr. John Rutledge was one of the principal architects of President Reagan's economic plan in 1980-81 and has been an advisor to the Bush White House on both the dividend tax cut and rebuilding Iraq. He is the chairman of Rutledge Capital, a private equity investment firm that has invested more than $150 million in middle market manufacturing, distribution, and service companies. He also authors the acclaimed Rutledge Blog on economic and technology issues. Dr. John Rutledge is President of the Business School at the Mundell International University of Entrepreneurship in Beijing.
He first introduced his Asset Market Shift framework for analyzing capital markets in The Wall Street Journal in the 1980's. Initially controversial, the framework, in which interest rates and other asset prices are determined by private arbitrage behavior, applies a rigorous foundation from thermodynamics to portfolio management. Dr. Rutledge uses the framework to track asset market shifts and develop strategies that attract capital and build wealth, bridging the gap between macroeconomic analysis and portfolio management.
Dr. Rutledge served on the faculties of Tulane University and Claremont McKenna College. In 1978, he founded the Claremont Economics Institute. He holds a BA from Lake Forest College and a PhD from the University of Virginia.
Philip M. Burgess, Ph.D.
Phil Burgess is President of the Annapolis Institute, a private non-partisan think tank, and a senior fellow at the Center for the New West. He has served on the faculties at UCLA, Ohio State University, the University of Colorado and the Colorado School of Mines. Burgess has been executive director of the Federation of Rocky Mountain States and president of the Western Governors' Policy Office. Internationally, he held an appointment to the U.S. Department of State's European Advisory Council and chaired the U.S. committee on transportation, telecommunications and tourism of the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council. He has co-authored numerous books, is widely quoted in the media and is a frequent guest commentator on radio and television.
James C. Miller III
James C. Miller III, who joined the Foundation's board in 1994, is Chairman Emeritus of CapAnalysis, a division of the international law firm of Howrey, Simon, Arnold & White. He is John M. Olin Distinguished Fellow at the Center for Study of Public Choice at George Mason University. He is also a senior fellow (by courtesy) of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, a board member (emeritus) of Citizens for a Sound Economy, and a member of the Board of Visitors of George Mason University. He serves on numerous corporate and government boards.
From 1985 to 1988, Miller was director of the Office of Management and Budget, a member of President Reagan's Cabinet; and a member of the National Security Council. From 1981 to 1985, he chaired the Federal Trade Commission. Before that, he was an associate director of OMB. He holds a B.B.A. in economics from the University of Georgia and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Virginia. He is the author of over 100 articles in professional journals and is the author, co-author or editor of nine books, the most recent of which is Monopoly Politics, published in 1999 by the Hoover Press at Stanford University. |
