Town Hall Meeting
Sunday, October 17, 2004, 6:15pm - 7:30pm

On August 4, 2004, Jeffrey Carlisle was named to become Chief of the FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau. He joined the Bureau in June, 2001 as Senior Deputy Chief, and has served as Co-Director of the FCC’s Internet Policy Working Group. Before joining the FCC, he practiced law independently and as an associate with O’Melveny & Myers, specializing in transactions, mergers and acquisitions of telecommunications companies, and competitive entry into local exchange markets. Mr. Carlisle received a B.A. in History from the University of California, Los Angeles, a J.D. from Boalt Hall, University of California, Berkeley, and an M.A. from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

Robert Pepper was appointed Chief of Policy Development at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in March 2003. In this capacity, Pepper serves as a direct advisor to the Chairman of the FCC on long-term policy planning including formulating and evaluating long-range policy options. Before being named to this new position, Pepper was Chief of the Office of Plans and Policy (OPP) beginning in December 1989. Under Pepper's leadership, OPP was responsible for policy questions that cut across traditional industry and institutional boundaries, especially those arising from the development of new technologies as well as the intersection of regulation and changing market economics. At OPP, Pepper's responsibilities included leading teams implementing provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996; assessing the deployment of broadband technologies; assessing the development of the Internet and electronic commerce; developing the framework for digital television; designing and implementing the first spectrum auctions in the United States; developing more market-based spectrum policies; assessing competition in the video marketplace; and assessing the impact of the development of the Internet on traditional communications policy structures.

Before joining the FCC, Pepper was Director of the Annenberg Washington Program in Communications Policy Studies. He also has been Director of Domestic Policies and Acting Associate Administrator at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration and developed a program on communications, computers, and information at the National Science Foundation.

He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he also received his doctorate.

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