Staff

High quality, original research must drive a public policy group's message points. It is for this reason that we have assembled a team of thought leaders and communications experts who understand policy processes. Our team has the skills necessary to help its supporters find practical solutions by answering difficult questions.

Staff

Michael A. Turner, Ph.D. (President)
Robin Varghese, Ph.D. (Senior Fellow)
Joseph Duncan, Ph.D. (Senior Fellow)
Edward M. Roche, Ph.D. (Director, Scientific Intelligence)
Patrick Walker (Fellow, Economic Policy)
Kenneth Brown (Director, Special Projects)
Adam Rodman (Manager, Special Projects)

Adjunct Fellows

John Kamp, Ph.D., J.D.

Biography: Michael A. Turner (President, Senior Scholar)

Dr. Turner currently serves as President and Senior Scholar of the Political and Economic Research Council. After serving as a Graduate Fellow at the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI) at the Columbia Business School in New York City, he was named Executive Director of the Information Services Executive Council (ISEC), an elite strategic industry group focused upon government and public affairs as well as policy research.

Dr. Turner is a prominent expert on privacy and dataflow issues. He has testified before Congress and numerous state legislatures, and presented studies to a host of government agencies including the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, the General Accounting Office, and the Council of Economic Advisers. Dr. Turner also sits on the Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee of the Department of Homeland Security.

Prior to his graduate studies, Dr. Turner served as the manger of federal regulatory and government affairs for the North American Telecommunications Association (NATA) in Washington, D.C. and served as a staff assistant in the U.S. Senate. Dr. Turner received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in Political Economy, and his B.A. from Miami University in Economics.

turner@infopolicy.org

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Dr. Duncan is currently an independent consultant with many clients across a broad swath of industries. Prior to leaving the private sector, Duncan served as Chief Economist for Dun & Bradstreet, where he oversaw a team of economists generating economic and strategic business analysis for D&B. Duncan has authored dozens of books and hundreds of articles, many of which focus on information economics. Duncan was involved in the crafting of the Privacy Act and helped architect the Standard Industrial Classification system (SIC) for tracking economic data across the entire U.S. economy. His most recent book, Statistics for the 21st Century, addresses issues pertaining to the collection and use of such data.

duncan@infopolicy.org

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Currently, Kamp serves as Of Counsel in the Wiley, Rein & Fielding’s privacy, Internet and e-Commerce, government affairs and advertising practices. He boasts particular experience as a lead advocate of Internet and privacy issues throughout the Government, including the FTC, FDA, Department of Commerce and the White House. Kamp is a former Senior Vice President of the American Association of Advertising Agencies (AAAA), responsible for monitoring Congress, Federal Agencies, and the courts addressing issues of importance pertaining to the advertising industry. Dr. Kamp served nearly a decade in senior policy positions at the FCC, including three years as head of the Office of Congressional and Public Affairs.

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Ed is the Director of Scientific Intelligence for the Institute. He has extensive industry experience including his management of the Conference Board's Council of Telecommunications Executives, composed of Chief Telecommunications Officers. He served as the Chief Research Officer for the Gartner Group (Research Board), and Chief Scientist for The Concours Group where he helped develop a "fast cycle" research methodology. He is an expert advisor to the United Nations on issues of Information Technology, and has served on mission in Kenya. Ed wrote papers on telecommunications infrastructure policy in the Bay area under the auspices of the Instutite of Urban and Regional Development at the University of California at Berkeley, and for the Council on Foreign Relations special study on globalization and the city. He conducted IT policy related research for the Diebold Institute for Public Policy Studies in Japan, Korea, and Brazil. He is the author of several books including "Telecommunications and Business Strategy", "Managing Information Technology in Multinational Corporations", and "Information Systems, Computer Crime, and Criminal Justice", and has edited seven others.

Ed received a doctorate from Columbia University in 1987 with a thesis directed by Alan F. Westin on transborder data flow in multinational enterprises, and holds a MA in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. where he focused on national security, strategic defence, and international law. Ed's paper on Information Technology in Multinational Corporations was elected as the best paper published in the IT field in Europe in 1996. He is a member of the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

roche@infopolicy.org

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Dr. Varghese is a Senior Fellow and Research Director of the Political and Economic Research Council. He has worked extensively on issues of information privacy and security, data quality, credit reporting and credit reporting reform in the United States and abroad, media ownership, financial literacy and the use of non-financial data for widening credit access. Varghese has played a key role in research design the development of methodology for PERCÕs studies and has overseen PERCÕs research efforts in these areas. He is the co-author of many PERC studies on credit reporting and financial access. Varghese has worked on behalf of PERC with the Federal Trade Commission, the Government Accountability Office, and the offices of members of Congress on policy issues directly related to PERCÕs core research.

Dr. Varghese received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in political science, in comparative political economy. Prior to joining PERC, he worked as a senior researcher and Graduate Fellow at the Columbia Institute of Tele-Information (CITI) where he worked on issues of media concentration. Varghese has also worked for Institutional Investor Institute as a conference programmer, where he oversaw issues pertaining to the Y2K phenomenon and assessed survey results of the banks' and investment firms' technology policy. Varghese has published articles in top academic journals.

varghese@infopolicy.org

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Walker's areas of focus include economic policy and quantitative methods. While at PERC, Walker has helped spearhead analysis examining how consumer credit scores (and credit availability and price) are effected with the inclusion of different types and amounts of payment information in their credit files.

While in the Ph.D. program at Duke University (ABD), he taught undergraduate econometrics and microeconomics. Walker received an M.A. in economics from Duke University and a B.A. in economics and mathematics from the University of North Florida.

walker@infopolicy.org

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Kenneth Brown has been involved in public policy research for over 10 years. Kenneth's expertise and background in public policy includes economics, trade, and technology. While Kenneth Brown was the president of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, he authored and published over 100 publications on a range of public policy topics including technology, trade, immigration, and economics. Kenneth's expertise includes foundation relations and project development.

Kenneth Brown resides in Falls Church, Va. Kenneth is a graduate of George Mason University.

kenb@infopolicy.org

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Rodman organizes and executes the scholars' projects. He graduated from the University of North Carolina with a degree in history and chemistry.

rodman@infopolicy.org

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