Jonathan Sallet

Managing Director

Jonathan Sallet is a Managing Director at The Glover Park Group and has combined a career in technology, public policy, politics and the law.

Sallet’s most recent writings include authorship of a chapter in the Center for American Progress’s book on the presidential transition and a comment on FCC Reform that can be found at www.fcc-reform.org. In addition, he appeared recently as a panelist at an antitrust conference co-sponsored by the American Antitrust Institute and Silicon Flatirons.

Sallet served in the Clinton 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 Gore to address the telecommunications issues that became the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and he headed the first White House working group on the deployment of educational technology.

From 1996-2000, Sallet served as Chief Policy Counsel of MCI (later MCI WorldCom) where he concentrated on issues arising from the implementation of the Telecommunications Act, including the opening of markets to competition and where he oversaw merger reviews concerning BT, WorldCom and Sprint. He has also served as a corporate consultant and has taught as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law School and the University of Maryland.

In the political arena, Sallet served on campaigns for Al Gore and Joe Lieberman.

Sallet’s professional training is in the 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 and was a partner in the law firms of Jenner & Block and Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin.

Sallet is a Silicon Flatiron Senior Adjunct Fellow at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Sallet served as Editor-In-Chief of the Virginia Law Review and graduated from Brown University. He serves on the advisory board of the American Antitrust Institute.