Improving Spectrum Management through Economic or Other Incentives:
Steering Committee Members

A Workshop sponsored by the
National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)

National Academy of Sciences, Lecture Room,
2101 Constitution Ave., NW (Entrance at 2100 C St.), Washington, D.C.
February 28 - March 1, 2006

Dale N. Hatfield, chair, is an independent consultant and adjunct professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Telecommunications at the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU). Between December 2000 and April 2002, Hatfield served as chair of the department. Prior to joining CU, he was the chief of the Office of Engineering and Technology at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and immediately before that was chief technologist at the agency. Before joining the Commission in December 1997, he was CEO of Hatfield Associates, Inc., a Boulder, Colorado-based multidisciplinary telecommunications consulting firm for 15 years. Before that, he was deputy Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information and deputy administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. Before moving to NTIA, Hatfield was chief of the Office of Plans and Policy at the FCC. In 1973 he received a Department of Commerce Silver Medal for contributions to domestic communications satellite policy and in 1999 he received the Attorney General's Distinguished Service Award. In 2000, he received the PCIA Foundation's Eugene C. Bowler award for exceptional professionalism and dedication in government service and the FCC's Gold Medal Award for distinguished service. More recently, he received the distinguished engineer award from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He currently is a fellow of the Radio Club of America. In February 2001, the FTC appointed Hatfield Monitor Trustee in the AOL/Time Warner merger. Hatfield is member of the National Research Council study committee that is examining new wireless technologies and spectrum policy. He also is serving on the board of directors of Crown Castle International and KBDI TV-12 Public Television in Denver. Hatfield holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from Case Institute of Technology and an M.S. in industrial management from Purdue University.

William Lehr is a research associate in the Center for Technology, Policy and Industrial Development (CTPID) at MIT. Lehr is an Internet infrastructure industry economist and consultant with over twenty years of experience. His fields of specialization and research include industrial organization, political economy, and regulatory economics as applied to the information technology industries. His research with the Communications Futures Program currently, and with the MIT Research Program on Internet & Telecoms Convergence previously, focuses on emerging broadband and wireless technologies, and their implications for industry structure, business, and public policy. Previously, Lehr was an assistant professor on the faculty of the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University. In addition to his academic research, Lehr provides economic and strategy consulting services to firms and governments on a variety of policy and business issues of relevance to the information technology industries. Lehr holds a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford (1992), an MBA from the Wharton Graduate School, and M.S.E., B.S. and B.A. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania.

Jon M. Peha is associate director of the Center for Wireless and Broadband Networking at Carnegie Mellon University, and a Professor in the Department of Engineering & Public Policy and the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering. His research spans technical and policy issues of computer and telecommunications networks. This has included spectrum, broadband Internet, wireless networks, video and voice over IP, communications for emergency responders, universal service, secure Internet payment systems, e-commerce, and network security. He also consults for industry and government agencies. Dr. Peha has addressed telecom and e-commerce issues on legislative staff in the House and Senate, and helped launch a US Government interagency program to assist developing countries with information infrastructure. He has also served as Chief Technical Officer of several high-tech start-ups, and as a member of technical staff at SRI International, AT&T Bell Laboratories, and Microsoft. Dr. Peha holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford.