Email:
athierer [at] cato.org
Adam D. Thierer is the former director of telecommunications
studies at the Cato Institute. Thierer conducts research on how
government regulations are hampering the evolution of
communications networks, including telephony, broadcasting, cable,
satellite and the Internet. He also examines the broader economic
and constitutional aspects of telecommunications policy. His
writing has been published in the Washington Post,
Newsweek, Wall Street Journal, Investors
Business Daily, Journal of Commerce, Forbes,
and The Economist. He has made media appearances on
National Public Radio, PBS, Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC, BBC,
Radio Free Europe and Voice of America. Thierer also spent nine
years at The Heritage Foundation, where he served as the Alex C.
Walker Fellow in Economic Policy. In that capacity, he covered
telecommunications and Internet policy and also wrote extensively
on antitrust, electricity and energy policy, the airline industry,
and federalism. Before coming to Washington, Thierer worked at the
Adam Smith Institute in London, England, where he examined reform
of the British legal system. Thierer earned his bachelor’s degree
in political science and journalism at Indiana University and
received his master’s degree in international business management
and trade theory at the University of Maryland.
