Rejen AKALU is currently a research associate at the Center for Information Communications Technologies at Denmark Technical University. He is currently conducting research on the topic of spectrum management under the direction of Professor William Melody, Managing Director of Learning initiatives for the reform of network economies (www.lirne.net) and the World Dialogue on the Regulation for Network Economies (www.regulateonline.org).
Edmond BARANES is Professor of Economic Sciences at the University of Montpellier and IDATE's Scientific Consultant. He is the Editor for the COMMUNICATIONS & STRATEGIES journal and represents IDATE within academic networks. He holds a Ph.D. in Economic Sciences and a Master of Economics (University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, 1991). He received a Post graduate diploma (DEA) in Mathematical Economy and Econometrics (1991) and a Master of Econometrics I (1990) from University of Paris.
edmond.baranes@univ-montp1.fr
Steven BAUER is completing his Ph.D. in computer science at MIT and is working in the Advanced Network Architecture Group with David Clark. Bauer's research focuses on the architectures and economics of internet-scale networks. Bauer is the recipient of the Department of Defense National Science and Engineering Fellowship and the National Science Foundation Fellowship. He is also a Harry S. Truman Scholar and Barry Goldwater Scholar.
Sophie BISMUT is a telecom analyst at IDATE, working on regulatory issues and market trends in the telecommunications sector. She is in particular in charge of two annual publications : Telecoms in Europe and The World Telecommunications Services Market.
s.bismut@idate.org
Vincent BONNEAU joined IDATE in 2004 as a Senior Consultant in the Marketing and Forecasting Department. He is mainly in charge of the impact of the software industry on the telecom markets. Prior to IDATE, Vincent Bonneau worked for the French Trade Commission (Economic Department of the Embassy of France) in San Francisco as an analyst in charge of the software industry. He has also worked for marketing departments at several telecommunication companies including Noos (French leading cable operator), Wanadoo and France Telecom. He graduated from Ecole Polytechnique (1997) and from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (2002). He also holds a MS from HEC in IT Management (2002).
v.bonneau@idate.org
Jean-Claude BURGELMAN is head of the ICT unit at the Directorate General Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. He holds degrees in social sciences (Ph.D., 1986) and in science and technology policy (MA, 1991) from the Free University of Brussels. He teaches a course on the "Global aspects of the information society" at the Free University of Brussels (VUB) where he was full professor of communication technology policy. His main research interests and activities focus on the social and economic impact of information society technologies. He has authored or co-authored 11 books on these topics. J.C. Burgelman sits on the board of several important scientific journals in the field of IST policy (COMMUNICATION & STRATEGIES, Telematics and Informatics, Media, Culture and Society, etc.) and is a member of the scientific board of CPR, the Communication Policy Research Conference and the ITS 2006 conference (the International Telecommunications Society).
Jacques CHAMPEAUX was named Executive Vice President of the Regulatory Affairs division of France Telecom in April 2004. Prior to taking up this appointment, Jacques Champeaux held a number of senior management positions in the France Telecom group including Executive Vice-President, Large Business Division from 1996 to 2002 and chairman of the Supervisory Board of EQUANT from June 2001 until the end 2002. Jacques Champeaux first joined France Telecom in 1971 and has gathered experience in many areas of the telecom business over the course of his career. He is a graduate of the Ecole polytechnique and the Ecole nationale supérieure des telecommunications.
DeockHee CHO received a B.A. degree in English Language and Literature from SungKyunKwan University, Korea, in 1996. He is currently a graduate student in the School of IT Business at ICU. His research interests include the areas of system engineering, IT management, technology strategy and M-commerce.
David CLARK is a senior research scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, where he has worked since receiving his Ph.D. there in 1973. Since the mid 1970s, Dr. Clark has been leading the development of the internet; from 1981-1989 he acted as Chief Protocol Architect in this development, and chaired the Internet Activities Board. His more recent activities include extensions to the internet to support real-time traffic, pricing and related economic issues, and policy issues surrounding the internet, such as broadband local loop deployment. His current research looks at re-definition of the architectural underpinnings of the internet, and the relation of technology and architecture to economic, societal and policy considerations. Dr. Clark is past chairman of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Academies, and has contributed to a number of studies on the societal and policy impact of computer communications. He is co-director of the MIT Communications Futures Program, a project for industry collaboration and coordination along the communications value chain.
Claude CRAMPES is professor of economics at Toulouse University and a member of the Institut d'Economie Industrielle (IDEI). His research fields are the economics of intangible assets and networks. He has done a lot of work on electricity, water distribution and cable TV. He has also contributed to the economics of innovation processes and intellectual property. C. Crampes has jointly published with A. Hollander in Economica, Information Economics and Policy, European Economic Review, and Journal of Regulatory Economics.
Peyman FARATIN is a research scientist at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. in Distributed Artificial Intelligence, developing algorithms and incentive mechanisms of electronic market institutions for online provisioning and allocation problems in IP access networks and distributed supply chains domains. He has also been involved in the engineering and institutional design of intelligent systems for the provisioning of wireless access networks and IP network management. More recently he has been working on building economic models for policy goals, focusing on the complex strategic interactions between the technologies, economies and industrial organization of internet economies involving transport service, content and application providers, economies characterized by high sunk (investment) costs, close to zero marginal cost and high fixed costs.
For more than fifteen years, Yves GASSOT has been at the head of IDATE (www.idate.org), an institute that has established itself as one of the leading research centres in Europe concerned with the telecommunications, Internet and media industries. In this position, he has taken part in numerous studies of the various markets and the strategies being pursued in the telecommunications sector. He is on the panel of several expert committees, including the Conseil Général des Technologies de l'Information and the Advisory Committee of the PTC, he is special adviser of the European Commissioner of the Information Society, he serves as director of the journal COMMUNICATIONS & STRATEGIES and is scientific head of the annual International Conference of IDATE. With a background as DPLG architect, he is a graduate of the Institute of Political Studies, Paris (3rd Cycle).
Vinoth GUNASEKARAN is a Ph.D. Student in telecommunications management, at the School of Technology Management, Stevens Institute of Technology, NJ, USA. He holds a Master’s degree in telecommunications from the University of Louisiana, LA, USA. His current research focuses on emerging wireless networks, including technologies, strategies, businesses and socio-economics. In 2004, he was a summer intern at the Mobile Networking Research group in AT&T Labs, NJ, USA. While in India, he worked in information technology and e-commerce related businesses.
Fotios HARMANTZIS is assistant professor at the School of Technology Management, Stevens Institute of Technology. His research interests include quantitative investments under uncertainty, valuation of real options, risk management, and the economics and financial aspects of high-tech and telecom. He teaches courses in financial engineering and telecommunications management programs.
Abraham HOLLANDER obtained his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Minnesota. The primary focus of his research is competition policy and international trade policy. His most recent work relates to competition in audio-visual markets, parallel trade and the licensing of intellectual property. He currently holds the position of professor of economics at the University of Montreal. A. Hollander has jointly published with C. Crampes in Economica, Information Economics and Policy, European Economic Review, and Journal of Regulatory Economics.
SeongCheol KIM received a M.B.A. degree from Seoul National University, as well as a M.A. and Ph.D. in telecommunications from Michigan State University. He is currently an associate professor of MIS and e-business in the School of IT Business at ICU. Before joining ICU, he led e-government initiatives for the Seoul Metropolitan Government as information systems director. His research interests include e-government, M-commerce, and telecommunications management.
Bruno LANVIN is the World Bank’s Senior Advisor for questions related to the information society. He is also the regional coordinator for the information technology policy programme (CITPO) for Europe and Central Asia and is the co-founder and joint head of the World Bank’s "E-Leadership" programme. He previously managed the World Bank’s "Information for Development" (infoDev) programme (2001-2003) and was the Executive Secretary of the DOT Force (Digital Opportunity Task Force) of the G-8 (2000-2001). Prior to taking this position, he led the electronic commerce programme of UNCTAD (United Nations Conference for Trade and Development) in Geneva, and occupied various high-level positions within the United Nations, both in New York and in Geneva. Bruno Lanvin has authored and co-authored several publications, articles and works, including Building Confidence: electronic commerce and development (CNUCED, January 2000) and the Global Information Technology Report (INSEAD, The World Economic Forum, infoDev, 2003, 2004, 2005). He holds a B.A. in Mathematics-Physics, an MBA from HEC, and a Ph.D. in economics.
Gilles LE BLANC is professor of economics at the Ecole des Mines de Paris and director of CERNA, research center in industrial economics. His main research interests are the analysis of industrial and regulatory dynamics and the empirical implementation of market structure's theories. Recent work focuses on digital content economics, European industrial policy and the economic geography of R&D in global firms. He is co-author of When Internet meets Entertainment (Presses de l'Ecole des Mines, 2006), an essay on digital media industries. He graduated from Ecole Polytechnique and holds a Ph.D. in economics from the Ecole des Mines. In 1999-2001, he was visiting researcher at the London School of Economics.
Rémy LE CHAMPION is an associate professor at the University Paris II and a researcher at CARISM. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University Paris X, as well as a post-doctorate from Keio University in Tokyo, Japan. He was previously a visiting researcher at the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information in New York, USA, and headed the research department of the Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel in France. He currently works as an independent expert for the European Commission. His research interests include media economics and new media (TV, programming, LPTV, press). He is the author of numerous publications, and most recently Télévision de pénurie, télévision d’abondance, with Benoît Danard, La télévision sur Internet, with Michel Agnola.
remylc@noos.fr
HyeongJik LEE received a B.S. degree in Industrial management from KAIST in 2001, and a M.A. in IT business from ICU in 2003. He is currently a doctoral student in the School of IT Business at ICU. His research interests include emerging services analysis and spectrum management in the telecommunications industry.
William LEHR is a research associate in MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). Dr. Lehr is an economist whose specialty is the regulatory and industrial economics of the internet infrastructure industries. He participates in the MIT Communications Futures Program (http://cfp.mit.edu), where his current research focuses on the evolution of wireless networking, broadband internet access, and spectrum policy. Prior to joining MIT in 1996, Dr. Lehr was an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University. In addition to his academic teaching and research, Dr. Lehr provides business strategy and litigation consulting services to public and private sector clients in the USA and abroad. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford (1992), an MBA from the Wharton Graduate School (1985), and MSE (1984), BS (1979) and BA (1979) degrees from the University of Pennsylvania.
wlehr@mit.edu
François LÉVÊQUE is professor of economics at the Ecole des Mines de Paris and visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley. He is also a director at Cerna, the research centre of the Ecole des Mines in industrial economics. François Lévêque has published several books on antitrust economics, as well as the economics of regulation and intellectual property rights. He is the author of around 50 articles on these topics. He has been regularly commissioned by the French government, OECD and the European Commission as a consultant and participates in advisory committees. He is the founder of Microeconomix, a Paris-based unit specialising in the economic analysis of legal disputes and a member of the French Environment Accounting Commission and the Council on Intellectual Property.
Stefano MANNONI is a tenured professor of law at the University of Florence. He is also an attorney and was elected commissioner of the AGCOM by the Senate in March 2005.
ChanGi NAM received a B.S. degree in management from Seoul National University in 1978, and a Ph.D. in business administration (finance) from Georgia State University in 1988. He worked for the Korean Information Society and Development Institute from 1988 to 2000. He is currently a professor in the School of IT Business at ICU. His research interests include financial analysis and performance evaluation in the information and communications industry.
Jungsuk OH is an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Information & Media Management, KAIST. His major research interests cover telecom, digital and media economics. More specifically, his recent research addresses issues of revenue/cost/profit allocation in the aforementioned industries, as well as the pricing of IT outsourcing services. He graduated from MIT (SB, 1994), studied Operations Research at Stanford University (MS, 1995) and received a Ph.D. in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University (2003). He also worked as a senior researcher at TriGem Computer, Inc. between 1997 and 2003, where he initiated and performed a number of strategy and IT infrastructure projects.
Sophie PERNET joined IDATE as a senior consultant in 2000 and specializes in the consumer market. She is in charge of the Use IT survey on ICT uses in the French consumer market. This survey is an in-depth study of telecom demand among French households, as well as arbitration between internet, TV and telephony services (based on a poll of 1,000 interviews). Sophie Pernet has carried out several studies dealing with services over broadband, and especially bundles, covering worldwide benchmarking and development opportunities. She also specialises in market modelling and forecasts.
s.pernet@idate.org
Carlos RODRÍGUEZ CASAL works as evaluation officer at the Directorate General Information Society and Media of the European Commission. His major research interests include the strategic planning of ICT policy and development effectiveness. Before taking up his position at the Commission, he was an associate professor at the State University of Navarra. Dr. Rodriguez holds a Ph.D. in mobile communications (1998), a masters in electronic engineering (1994), a masters in law (2000) and an MBA in business (2002).
carlos.rodriguez@cec.eu.int
Rahul SAMI is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan School of Information. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Yale University in 2003, and spent two years as a postdoctoral assistant at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. His research focuses on designing and analyzing incentive mechanisms, markets and reputation systems to enable self-interested parties to cooperatively solve common goals, especially in internet protocols and applications.
Sung Hee SHIM has been a doctoral student at the School of Economics, Seoul National University 2004 since 2004. His main research interests focus on bundling and platform competition in the IT industry utilizing an industrial organization approach. Before Seoul National University, he studied at the Graduate School of Management, KAIST (MS, 2004) and the School of Economics, Seoul National University (BA, 1997).
Alain VALLÉE is currently senior vice-president research at the content division of France Telecom. He began his carrer in the 1980s as a professor at the Institut National des Télécommunications and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications. He was also an expert for the European Commission’s "Analysis and forecasting group", working on the Green Paper and telecommunications directives, and chaired the "Study Group of the European regulators committee". In 1990, he joined the Direction de la Règlementation Générale, in the French Ministry for Post and Telecommunications, and directly participated in the preparation of the new telecommunications law adopted in December 1990 and its subsequent implementation. In 1996, he moved to Mobistar in Belgium where he was appointed Institutional relations director. In 1997, Alain Vallée became strategic planning and regulation director for France Telecom Mobile, and subsequently worked for the Orange Group in various positions. He holds a Ph.D. management sciences.
John WROCLAWSKI is director of the Computer Networks division at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute, with responsibility for the strategic direction of this 45-member research group. ISI's Computer Networks Division maintains active programs of research in areas such as internet protocols and architecture, sensor nets, network and distributed system security, and space systems networking. Prior to joining ISI, Mr. Wroclawski held positions as research scientist with the Advanced Network Architecture Group at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and with MIT's program on internet and telecommunications convergence. His technical interests include the architecture, technology and protocols of large, decentralized communication systems such as the internet, systems aspects of pervasive computing, and the core principles of self-organizing systems. Mr. Wroclawski is a member of the ACM, IEEE and the IETF, and has recently served on the executive committee of ACM SIGCOMM, as editor of ACM Computer Communications Review, and as a member of the IETF's Transport Area directorate. |
