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Panelist

Reed Hundt

Mr. Hundt is currently the co-chairman of the Coalition for the Green Bank and the principal of REH Advisors, a business consulting firm founded in 2009 and based out of Washington, D.C.

Mr. Hundt was the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from 1993-97. As chairman he helped negotiate the World Trade Organization Telecommunications agreement, opening markets in 69 countries to competition and dropping barriers to foreign investment. He also played a role in crafting one of the largest single national commitments to K-12 education in America’s history: the Snowe-Rockefeller program that directs more than $4 billion annually to connect all classrooms to the Internet.

Reed was a member of Barack Obama’s Presidential Transition Team (2008-09) where he served as the economic agency review group head. Reed served as a senior adviser to McKinsey & Company, a strategic management consulting firm, from 1998-2008.

He was co-chairman of the Forum on Communications and Society at the Aspen Institute (1998-2006), and was a member of the National Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, Academy and Sciences, Telecommunications Research & Development from 2003-04.

Mr. Hundt was awarded the "Helen Keller Outstanding Public Service Award" from the American Foundation for the Blind "for his exemplary efforts to include all Americans, especially those who are blind or visually impaired, in the communications revolution and for creating the FCC’s Disabilities Issues Task Force."