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Dr. Furchtgott-Roth serves as President of Furchtgott-Roth Economic Enterprises, an economic consulting firm, which he founded in 2003. From 2001 to 2003, Dr. Furchtgott-Roth was a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. From 1997 to 2001, Dr. Furchtgott-Roth served as a commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission. Before his appointment to the FCC, he was chief economist for the House Committee on Commerce and a principal staff member on the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Dr. Furchtgott-Roth is the author of dozens of publications and has coauthored three books. He is also a columnist for the New York Sun. Dr. Furchtgott-Roth received a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University and an S.B. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. | 