Mark Jamison
Mark Jamison is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he works on how technology affects the economy, and on telecommunications and Federal Communications Commission issues. He is concurrently the director and Gerald Gunter Professor of the Public Utility Research Center and the Digital Markets Initiative at the University of Florida’s Warrington College of Business. He conducts research related to the regulation of the information technology sectors.
Dr. Jamison has served on the FCC transition team for President-elect Trump and as a special adviser to the chair of the governor of Florida’s internet task force. Earlier, he was manager of regulatory policy at Sprint, head of research for the Iowa Utilities Board, and communications economist for the Kansas Corporation Commission. He has also served on a variety of boards at the state and federal level.
Dr. Jamison has written three books, contributed to several edited volumes, published in academic and policy journals, and written in several news publications. He has a PhD in economics from the University of Florida
Recent Events and Presentations
Fostering User Safety in AR/VR Technology
Join ITIF for a panel discussion with policymakers and thought leaders about how to ensure that users can enjoy the benefits of AR/VR technology safely.
Dynamic Antitrust Discussion Series: “House Report on Big Tech”
ITIF and Competition Policy International hosted the third in a series of discussions on “dynamic antitrust,” in which Aurelien Portuese, ITIF’s director of antitrust and innovation policy, sits down with leading scholars and antitrust enforcers in Washington, Brussels, and elsewhere to discuss the path forward in making antitrust a foundation for innovation.
2017 Telecom Priorities for Congress and the FCC
President Trump’s administration will likely bring fundamental changes in jurisdiction of the Federal Communications Commission. Many expect former Chairman Wheeler’s signature policy shift—using the pretext of net neutrality rules to classify Broadband Internet Access Services as a telecommunications service under Title II of the Communications Act—to be undone. How that undoing is done matters immensely. Join ITIF as we host a panel of experts to discuss this question and more.
