The Center on Technology Policy (CTP) at New York University is pleased to announce that Blair Levin, who has spent decades shaping and analyzing technology and telecommunications policy from inside government, Wall Street, and leading policy institutions, has joined CTP as a senior fellow.
Levin is an internationally recognized leader in technology and telecommunications policy, with a distinguished career spanning senior roles in federal government and decades of influential analysis of technology policy, business, and capital markets. From 1993 to 1997, Levin served as Chief of Staff to FCC Chairman Reed Hundt. In 2008–2009, he co-led the technology transition team for President-elect Barack Obama and subsequently oversaw the development of the 2010 National Broadband Plan. Levin has served as a Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, The Aspen Institute, and the Brookings Institution. For more than two decades, he has worked as a telecommunications policy and equity analyst at firms including Legg Mason, Stifel Nicolaus, and New Street Research, earning him recognition from The Wall Street Journal as “the most learned of telecom analysts.”