Eli Noam is Director
of Virtual Institute of Information, Director of the Columbia
Institute for Tele-Information, and Professor of Finance and Economics.
Eli Noam returned to Columbia in 1990, after having served as Commissioner
with the New York State Public Service Commission. He has been a professor
at Columbia Business School since 1976 and taught also at Columbia Law School
and Princeton University's Economics Department and Woodrow Wilson School.
Noam has published extensively in economic journals, law reviews, and interdisciplinary
journals. His books and works include the authored, edited, or co-authored
volumes Telecommunications in Europe; Television in Europe; Telecommunications
Regulation: Today and Tomorrow; Video.
Media Competition; Services
in Transition: The Impact of Information Technology in the Service Industry;
The Law of International Telecommunications in the United States; The International
Market in Film and Television Programs; Telecommunications in the Pacific
Basin; Asymmetric Deregulation: The Dynamics of Telecommunications Policies
in Europe and the United States; Public TV in America; Telecommunications
in Africa; Telecommunications in Asia and the Middle East; and Telecommunications
in Latin America. He was a member of the advisory boards for the Federal
governments FTS-2000 telecommunications network, the IRS's computer system
reorganization, and the National Computer Systems Laboratory. He is a member
of the Council on Foreign Relations. He received an AB, MA, PhD (Economics)
and JD from Harvard.
Eli Noam
