J. Scott Marcus is a Director, Department Manager and Senior Consultant
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). Previously, 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. Prior
to that, 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. 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. In 2004, Mr.
Marcus was attached to the European Commission (DG INFSO) as a
Transatlantic Fellow of the German
Marshall Fund of the United States.
Mr. Marcus also works as an independent consultant. Clients include the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).
Mr. Marcus is also a member of the Scientific Committee of the new
Communications and Media program at the Florence School of Regulation
(FSR), a unit of the European Union 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), and a
Visiting Fellow
of the University of Southern California's Center for Communication Law and Policy.
He has served as co-editor
for public policy and
regulation for IEEE Communications
Magazine. He is
a Senior Member of the IEEE. He served on the board of the American
Registry of
Internet Numbers (ARIN) from 2000 to
2002, on the Meetings and Conference Board of the IEEE
Communications
Society from 2001 through 2005, and as Chair of IEEE
CNOM. 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.
Areas of specialization include: