Industry Perspective: It’s Taking the World
Wednesday, January 4, 2006, 1:30pm - 2:00pm

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Robert Pepper, Senior Managing Director, Global Advanced Technology Policy, Cisco

Dr. Robert Pepper joined Cisco in July 2005 from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) where most recently he had been Chief, Policy Development. At Cisco, Pepper, based in Washington, DC, leads a team driving Cisco’s global policy agenda for advanced technology policy in areas such as wireless, IP enabled services, broadband, and security. At FCC, Pepper served as an advisor to the last six Chairmen on policy planning including formulating and evaluating long-term policy options, especially those that cut across traditional industry and institutional boundaries as a result of new technological developments and convergence. Prior, Pepper was Director of the Annenberg Washington Program in Communications Policy Studies. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he also received his doctorate.