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 Jonathan Sallet is a Partner at The Glover Park Group with a career in technology, public policy, politics and the law. Mr. Sallet served in the Clinton/Gore Administration as Assistant to the Secretary and Director of the Office of Policy & Strategic Planning of the Department of Commerce, focusing on economic and technology policy. He was a member of the small group of Administration officials who met regularly with Vice President Al Gore to work on the telecommunications issues that became the Telecommunications Act of 1996; he headed the first White House working group on the deployment of educational technology. From 1996-2000, Mr. Sallet served as Chief Policy Counsel of MCI, where he concentrated on issues arising from the implementation of the Telecommunications Act and where he oversaw merger reviews concerning BT, WorldCom and Sprint. His corporate experience also includes work with Ira Magaziner on privacy-enhancing technologies. In the political area, Mr. Sallet was active in 2003 – 2004 as Communications Director and Senior Strategist to Joe Lieberman’s presidential campaign. His earlier work in politics included Senator Lieberman’s Vice Presidential campaign in 2000; Al Gore’s campaigns in 1996, 1992 and 1988; and service as counsel to the Standing Committees of the Democratic National Convention in 1992. Mr. Sallet’s professional training is in the law. A graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, he clerked for Associate Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr., and Judge Edward Tamm of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He was a partner in the law firms of Jenner & Block and Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin. Mr. Sallet’s more recent publications include an EPI working paper, “Principles for Governmental Action in a Broadband World,” an article in Business Week Online entitled “Behold the Broadband Value Circle,” and, in the publication First Monday, “The challenges of classification: Emerging VOIP regulation in Europe and the United States,” and “Just how open must an open network be for an open network to be labeled ‘open’?” Mr. Sallet’s current writing projects include, with Professor Steven Weber, an examination of the “Open v. Closed” debate as it impacts innovation, and a chapter on the Department of Commerce for the Center for American Progress’ book on the forthcoming presidential transition. Mr. Sallet is a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for International Studies at the University of California, Berkeley; a Senior Adjunct Fellow, Silicon Flatirons at the University of Colorado School of Law; and a member of the advisory board of the American Antitrust Institute. Mr. Sallet served as Editor-In-Chief of the Virginia Law Review and graduated from Brown University. Recent articles can be found at: http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_7/bach/ http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue8_3/sallet/ |
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