Speaker Biographies

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Dan Brenner, National Cable & Telecommunications Association

Daniel Brenner is Senior Vice President for Law & Regulatory Policy at the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, Washington, D.C., where he has served since 1992. Previously, he served as Director of the Communications Law Program and a member of the faculty at UCLA Law School. He also served as Counsel to the Los Angeles office of LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae. Brenner was Senior Legal Advisor to Chairman Mark Fowler of the Federal Communications Commission from 1981 to 1986. He was also Vice-Chairman of the U.S. Delegation to the ITU World Radio Conference in Geneva, Switzerland. He has served as a consultant on telecommunications issues for the RAND Corporation and the International Media Fund, and as a Senior Fellow at The Annenberg Washington Program. He is a graduate of Stanford University and Stanford Law School.

Brenner serves on the Board of Directors of Cable Positive, the cable industry's AIDS awareness and support organization. He has also served on the board of advisors of Falcon Cable Systems. He was a member of the Board of Trustees of Stanford University from 1982-1987. He was appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate to be a member, and served as Vice-Chairman, of the Board of Directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting from 1986 to 1991. He is co-author of a leading cable treatise on cable television law and serves on the adjunct faculty of Georgetown Law School.