Tim Wu

Schwartz Fellow, New America Foundation

Tim Wu is a professor at Columbia Law School and the chairman of media reform organization Free Press. He is the co-author of Who Controls the Internet? (Oxford U. Press, 2006). Mr. Wu was recognized in 2006 as one of 50 leaders in science and technology by Scientific American magazine and was listed as one of Harvard's 100 most influential graduates by 02138 magazine in 2007.

Mr. Wu's best known work is the development of Net Neutrality theory, but he has also written about copyright, international trade, and the study of law-breaking. He previously worked for Riverstone Networks in the telecommunications industry in Silicon Valley, and was a law clerk for Judge Richard Posner and Justice Stephen Breyer. Mr. Wu has written for the New Yorker, the Washington Post, Forbes, Slate magazine, and others. He is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Mr. Wu graduated from McGill University and Harvard Law School.

As a fellow at the New America Foundation, he will focus on how government can best regulate digital technology to encourage, rather than stifle, further innovation.

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