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Email: jeff.eisenach@nera.com
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PhD in economics, University of Virginia
BA in economics, Claremont McKenna College
Dr. Eisenach is a Senior Managing Director and Co-Chair of NERA's Communications, Media, and Internet Practice. He is also an Adjunct Professor at George Mason University Law School, where he teaches Regulated Industries, and a Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Previously, Dr. Eisenach has served in senior policy positions at the US Federal Trade Commission and the White House Office of Management and Budget, and on the faculties of Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Dr. Eisenach's consulting practice focuses on economic analysis of competition, regulatory, intellectual property and consumer protection issues. He has submitted expert reports and testified in US federal court as well before the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, the International Trade Commission, the Copyright Royalty Board, the Federal Communications Commission, US Tax Court, several state public utility commissions, and courts and regulatory bodies in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, the Caribbean, and South America. He has also advised clients in some of the world’s largest information technology sector mergers.
He has written or edited 19 books and monographs, including Broadband Competition in the Internet Ecosystem and Competition, Innovation and the Microsoft Monopoly: Antitrust in the Digital Marketplace. His writings have also appeared in scholarly journals such as The Review of Network Economics, as well as in popular outlets like Forbes, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.
Prior to joining NERA, Dr. Eisenach was a managing director and principal at Navigant Economics, and before that he served as Chairman of Empiris LLC, Criterion Economics, and CapAnalysis, LLC. Among his other previous affiliations, Dr. Eisenach has served as President and Senior Fellow at The Progress & Freedom Foundation; as a scholar the Heritage Foundation, and the Hudson Institute; as a member of the 1980-81 Reagan-Bush Transition Team on the Federal Trade Commission, the 2000-2001 Bush-Cheney Transition Team on the Federal Communications Commission, the Virginia Governor's Commission on E-Communities, and the Virginia Attorney General's Task Force on Identity Theft. In 2016-2017 he led the Trump-Pence Transition Team for the Federal Communications Commission.
Title | Date | |||
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Net Neutrality: Revisiting the Repeal | 12 October 2023 | |||
Revising the Horizontal Merger Guidelines: The Path Forward | 19 September 2023 | |||
What Happens If the American Innovation and Choice Online Act Becomes Law? | 22 February 2022 | |||
Space Economics at the Winnick International Tech & Telecom Forum | 18 November 2021 | |||
Dominance Litigation | 09 December 2020 | |||
38th Annual Institute on Telecommunications Policy & Regulation | 03 December 2020 | |||
UBS 5G Summit 2020 | 18 May 2020 | |||
2019 National Lawyers Convention | 14 November 2019 | |||
7th Winnik International Telecoms and Internet Forum | 04 April 2019 | |||
16th LDC Convening | 18 December 2018 | |||
Title | Date | Type | ||
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Expert Quoted in Financial Review on News Content from Traditional Publishers | 20 July 2023 | Media Coverage | ||
Financial Times Quotes NERA Expert on the News Industry Growing Rift With Publishers | 20 July 2023 | Media Coverage | ||
Expert Quoted in Financial Times’ Article Exploring News Content from Traditional Pub... | 18 July 2023 | Media Coverage | ||
Facebook and the News Industry: Who Benefits…and How? | 27 March 2023 | Media Coverage | ||
NERA Study Explores Facebook’s Economic Benefits for News Publishers | 27 March 2023 | Media Coverage | ||
The Economic Benefits of Facebook for the News Industry | 27 March 2023 | Media Coverage | ||
Traditional Publishers vs. Meta | 27 March 2023 | Media Coverage | ||
Meta, News Content, and New Publisher Share Regulations | 26 March 2023 | Media Coverage | ||
NERA Analysis and Facebook’s Economic Benefits for the News Industry | 26 March 2023 | Media Coverage | ||
NERA Experts Recognized in Who's Who Legal 2022 | 17 October 2022 | Press Release | ||