Giulia McHenry and Wayne Leighton on the FCC's Office of Economics and Analytics

Today we are joined by Giulia McHenry and Wayne Leighton, who are respectively Chief and Deputy Chief of the FCC’s Office of Economics and Analytics. The new office—OEA—is a major initiative of the current FCC and was established almost exactly two years ago. Giulia came to her current position after serving as Chief Economist at the NTIA. Prior to that, she focused on telecommunications issues at a well-known economics consulting firm. Giulia holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Maryland. Wayne previously served as Chief of the Office of Strategic Planning and Policy Analysis at the FCC, and as a Senior Economist at the Wireless Bureau and as a Wireless Advisor to Commissioner Deborah Taylor Tate. Outside of the FCC, he has worked as an economist for the Senate Banking Committee, an economics consulting firm, and as professor of Economics at the Universidad Francisco Americana in Guatemala. He holds a PhD in Economics from George Mason.

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