J. Scott Marcus is a Senior
Fellow at Bruegel, a
Brussels-based macroeconomics think tank.
He also works as an independent consultant dealing with
policy and regulatory
issues related to electronic communications, media and ICTs.
He is best known
as an economist, but his academic training is as a political
scientist (with a
specialty in public administration) and as an engineer. Mr.
Marcus is based in
Brussels, Belgium, and in Bonn, Germany.
Current and past private
consulting clients have included
the European Parliament; the Electronic Frontier Foundation
(EFF); the
International Telecommunications Union (ITU); national
regulatory authorities
of Bahrain, Jamaica, and Namibia; Systra (the systems
engineering arm of the French
rail system); and various market players.
From July 2005 to August
2015, he served as a Director
for WIK-Consult GmbH (the
consulting
arm of the WIK, a research institute in economics and
regulatory
policy for network industries, located in Bad Honnef,
Germany). From 2001 to
2005, he served as Senior Advisor for Internet Technology
for the United
States Federal
Communications Commission
(FCC), a position equivalent in rank to the Chief
Economist or Chief
Technologist. In 2004, the FCC loaned Mr. Marcus to the
European Commission (to
what was then DG INFSO) pursuant to a grant from the German Marshall Fund of the
United States.
Prior to working for the FCC, he was the Chief Technology
Officer (CTO) of
Genuity, Inc. (GTE Internetworking), one of the world's
largest Internet
backbone service providers at that time.
In early 2014, Mr. Marcus
served on a panel of three experts
appointed by Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta to review
the state of
broadband infrastructure in Italy and prospects for
achieving European
broadband goals. Mr. Marcus is a member of the Scientific
Committee of the
Communications and Media program at the Florence School of
Regulation (FSR), a
unit of the European University Institute (EUI) / Robert
Schuman Centre for
Advanced Studies (RSCAS). He is also a Fellow of GLOCOM (the Center for
Global Communications,
a research institute of the International University of
Japan). He has served
as co-editor for public policy and regulation for IEEE Communications Magazine. He is a Senior
Member of the IEEE,
and has served on the Meetings and Conference Board of
the IEEE
Communications Society from 2001
through 2005 and as Chair of IEEE
CNOM.
He served on the board of the American Registry of Internet
Numbers (ARIN) from 2000
to 2002.
He is the author of numerous
papers and of a book on data network
design: Designing
Wide
Area Networks and Internetworks: A Practical Guide,
Addison Wesley,
1999. Much of Scott's published
work is interdisciplinary, combining economic,
public policy, and
technological analysis.
Mr. Marcus holds a B.A. in Political Science (Public
Administration) from the
City College of New York, and an M.S. from the School of
Engineering, Columbia
University.