OUR PEOPLE: Officers, Directors, Fellows, and the Advisory Board

AAI OFFICERS

President

The President of the AAI is Albert A. ("Bert") Foer, whose career has included private law practice in Washington, DC (Hogan & Hartson, Jackson & Campbell); the Federal Senior Executive Service (as Assistant Director and Acting Deputy Director of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Competition); CEO of a mid-sized chain of retail jewelry stores for twelve years; trade association and non-profit leadership; and teaching antitrust to undergraduate and graduate business school students. Foer has published numerous articles, book chapters, and reviews relating to competition policy. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, with an A.B. (magna cum laude) from Brandeis University, and an M.A. in political science from Washington University. His e-mail:   Bfoer@antitrustinstitute.org; office phone is 202-276-6002.

Vice President

Diana L. Moss is Vice President as well as a Director and Senior Research Fellow of the AAI. She specializes in the economics of antitrust, regulation, and energy and natural resources. Dr. Moss was a senior Staff Economist and coordinated competition analysis in the Office of Markets, Tariffs and Rates, Division of Corporate Applications, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission from 1995 through 2000. From 1989 through 1995, Dr. Moss consulted in private practice. She has published and spoken widely on energy regulation and antitrust issues and is also adjunct professor at the University of Colorado, Department of Economics and affiliated professor at the Georgetown University Graduate Public Policy Institute. Her PhD. in Mineral Economics was earned at the Colorado School of Mines in 1989. Dr. Moss joined AAI as a Senior Research Fellow in September, 2001. Her e-mail: DMoss@antitrustinstitute.org;  office phone is 720-233-5971.

Secretary

Robert H. Lande, the first AAI Senior Fellow and a co-founding Director of the AAI, served AAI on a full-time basis during three different periods. He is the Venable Professor of Law at the University of Baltimore. Professor Lande is the author of numerous law review articles relating to antitrust, is a frequent speaker at antitrust events, and is often quoted in the trade press. A graduate of Harvard University (J.D., M.P.P.) and Northwestern University (B.A.), he has served in the FTC's Bureau of Competition and was associated with Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue in Washington.  RLande@antitrustinstitute.org.

Treasurer

Albert A. Foer (See above)

AAI DIRECTORS 

In addition to Foer, the initial directors were Robert Lande (See above) and Jonathan Cuneo (See below). Lande serves as corporate secretary. On January 1, 2007, Diana Moss, Vice President (See above), and Robert Skitol,  (See below) became the fourth and fifth members of the Board of Directors.

Jonathan Cuneo, a partner in the Washington, DC, law firm of Cuneo, Waldman, Gilbert & LaDuca, LLP,  is also General Counsel of the Committee to Support the Antitrust Laws. He served in the Office of the General Counsel of the Federal Trade Commission and as Counsel to the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Monopolies and Commercial Law. JCuneo@antitrustinstitute.org.

Robert A. Skitol is a senior partner in the Antitrust Practice Group at Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP in Washington. He is a former attorney-advisor to the chairman of the FTC and former special assistant to the director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection. He has over thirty years of experience in all facets of antitrust practice and has been an active participant in the ABA Section of Antitrust Law as well as a member of the Advisory Board and a Senior Fellow of the American Antitrust Institute. He has published articles covering a wide variety of antitrust subjects in the ABA Journal of Antitrust Law, the ABA Antitrust Source and other law journals. He co-authored the book, Mergers in the New Antitrust Era. RSkitol@antitrustinstitute.org.

COMMUNICATIONS

Sarah J. Frey is AAI's Communication Manager. For media inquiries or questions regarding events, please contact her at sfrey@antitrustinstitute.org or 202-408-7442.

SENIOR FELLOWS OF THE AAI

Senior Fellows of the AAI are appointed to a term of two years, during which time they constitute an "inner circle" of advisors and undertake specific projects for the AAI.

Richard Brunell is Senior Fellow and Director, Legal Advocacy. A former editor of the Harvard Law Review, he has been a visiting law professor at Boston College, Boston University and the Roger Williams School of Law. He was a litigator with the firm of Foley, Hoag from 1991-2003 and before that with the Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General and the U.S. Dept. of Justice Antitrust Division. He is a contributing editor of the Antitrust Law Journal. RBrunell@antitrustinstitute.org.

Stephen Calkins is Professor of Law and Director of Graduate Studies at Wayne State University Law School and Of Counsel to Covington & Burling. A frequent speaker at antitrust conferences and author or co-author of many antitrust and consumer law publications, he served as General Counsel of the FTC from 1995-97. He is a graduate of Yale (B.A.) and Harvard (J.D.). SCalkins@antitrustinstitute.org.

Kenneth M. Davidson became a Senior Fellow upon his retirement from the Federal Trade Commission where he served from 1978-June, 2005. He is currently engaged in foreign and domestic consulting work. At the FTC, he was Deputy Assistant Director and a senior attorney in several divisions of the Bureau of Competition, with very substantial expertise in policy planning, premerger notification, and compliance. Formerly a law professor at SUNY Buffalo, he is the author of MEGAMERGERS: CORPORATE AMERICA'S BILLION-DOLLAR TAKEOVERS, a study of the large mergers of the 1970's and 1980's. In 1999, he co-authored A STUDY OF THE COMMISSION'S DIVESTITURE PROCESS. He has a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania and an LLM from Yale Law School. His email is  kdavidson@antitrustinstitute.org

Michal Gal is a Senior Lecturer, Director of the Law and MBA Program, and Co-Director of the Forum on Law and Markets at the Faculty of Law, Haifa University, Israel. She is also a Global Hauser Visiting Professor, NYU School of Law and a Visiting Professor at Georgetown University in 2007-2008. Dr. Gal is the author of COMPETITION POLICY FOR SMALL MARKET ECONOMIES and the main author and co-editor of THE LAW AND ECONOMICS OF ISRAELI COMPETITION LAW. She received her J.S.D. and LL.M. in law from the University of Toronto and her LL.B. from Tel Aviv University, magna cum laude, and clerked for the Israeli Supreme Court. MGal@antitrustinstitute.org

Warren S. Grimes has been Professor of Law at Southwestern University School of Law since 1988, where he teaches antitrust, legislation, business organizations, and unfair trade. Prior positions included Chief Counsel of the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Monopolies and Commercial Law, and Assistant to the General Counsel of the Federal Trade Commission. Grimes is a graduate of Stanford and the University of Michigan Law School. He is co-author, with fellow AAI Advisory Board Member Lawrence Sullivan of The Law of Antitrust: An Integrated Handbook. Wgrimes@antitrustinstitute.org.

Gregory T. Gundlach is Professor of Marketing, Coggin College of Business, University of North Florida. He holds four degrees from the University of Tennessee (B.S., M.B.A., J.D., and Ph.D.). Dr. Gundlach has been especially active with the AAI in the business school project, work relating to the distribution arena, and in arranging workshops relating antitrust and marketing issues. GGundlach@antitrustinstitute.org.

Norman W. Hawker is Associate Professor in the Haworth College of Business at Western Michigan University, where he frequently writes on antitrust topics. A lawyer with experience in private practice and as an Assistant Attorney General in Michigan, Professor Hawker earned his law degree at the University of Michigan. NHawker@antitrustinstitute.org.

John E. Kwoka, Jr., is the Neal F. Finnegan Professor of Economics at Northeastern University. He has served as President of the Industrial Organization Society and co-edits the successful series (with fellow AAI Advisory Board member Lawrence J. White) The Antitrust Revolution-- Economics, Competition, and Policy (Oxford University Press, fourth edition, 2004). jkwoka@antitrustinstitute.org 

James A. Langenfeld is a director of the national economic consulting firm, LECG. His prior work includes eleven years at the Federal Trade Commission, serving the last six years as the Director for Antitrust at the Bureau of Economics. An Adjunct Professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, he earned his doctorate in economics at Washington University. JLangenfeld@antitrustinstitute.org.

Philip B. Nelson is a Principal at Economists, Inc. Before joining EI in 1987, he was an economist with the Federal Trade Commission, serving as Assistant Director  for Competition Analysis in the FTC's  Bureau of Economics. He has taught at Yale University and Fordham Law School. He has written numerous articles and two books: Corporations in Crisis: Behavioral Observations for Bankruptcy Policy, and U.S. International Competitiveness (with John Hilke). Dr. Nelson is active in the ABA's Antitrust Section. PNelson@antitrustinstitute.org.

Roger G. Noll is Professor of Economics at Stanford University, where he also is Director of the Stanford Center for International Development. His principal research interests are antitrust, regulation, communications policy, the economics of sports, and the positive theory of public law. Dr. Noll is the author or co-author of thirteen books and monographs and over 300 articles on a wide range of topics. RNoll@antitrustinstitute.org.

Rudolph J.R. Peritz is Professor of Law at New York Law School. He is author of Competition Policy in America: History, Rhetoric, Law, the leading history of antitrust; and co-editor with Eleanor Fox and Lawrence Sullivan of Antitrust in Global Perspective (2nd ed.). He earned his law degree at the University of Texas. Professor Peritz' work at AAI focuses on intellectual property and dynamic antitrust analysis, including the integration of legal, economic, and business theory perspectives. RPeritz@antitrustinstitute.org.

Stephen F. Ross is Professor of Law at the Pennylvania State University . He is the author of the treatise, Principles of Antitrust Law. Professor Ross has served as an attorney with both the FTC and the Antitrust Division; was a clerk for Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg, then of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia; and was minority counsel for the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States Senate. His fields of expertise include Canadian antitrust law and sports law. SRoss@antitrustinstitute.org.

F.M. ("Mike") Scherer is Aetna Professor Emeritus at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. His research specialties have been industrial economics and the economics of technological change, leading to such books as Industrial Market Structure and Economic Performance (third edition with David Ross)and Competition Policy: Domestic and International. Dr. Scherer received the AAI Antitrust Achievement Award in 2002. fmscherer@antitrustinstitute.org

Bernard Ascher is former Director of Service Industry Affairs in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), an agency within the Executive Office of the President. A graduate of Brooklyn College (BA/Economics) and City University of New York (MBA/International Trade), he is currently Adjunct Professor at George Mason University and University of Maryland University College. Research interests include: trade in services; international mobility, licensing and regulation of service providers, including the professions. BAscher@antitrustinstitute.org.

David Giacalone is a graduate of Harvard Law School (1976) and served in several positions in the FTC's Bureau of Competition from 1977 through 1988. He retired from private practice as a mediator and children's advocate. At his website, f/k/a, he has focused on consumer rights, competition, and ethics in the market for legal services. His primary volunteer activities for AAI involve editing the Guide to Antitrust Resources on the Web. His e-mail is DAGiacalone@antitrustinstitute.org.

Byung Geon ("BK") Lee is a Hubert Humphrey Fellow, on leave from the Korea Fair Trade Commission where he was a senior deputy director. He will work with AAI for one year commencing in April, 2008. Leebk@ftc.gov.kr

THE ROLE OF THE AAI ADVISORY BOARD

The AAI Advisory Board consists of outstanding experts in the fields of antitrust law, economics, and business. Although decisions are made by the Board of Directors, Advisors are consulted from time to time as positions are developed and their views are taken into account. They do not vote and do not assume responsibility for the positions of the organization either as a group or individually. Typically, the President circulates information or queries to the Advisors via an e-mail listserve, and those who desire to respond will do so, either directly to the President or to the entire listserve. Advisors also participate on special projects in small groups (e.g., in drafting an amicus brief or participating in a working group) or individually (e.g., in presenting a paper at our national conference). Sometimes Advisors recuse themselves because of a conflict of interest resulting from a client matter or present or past governmental role, or because of lack of relevant expertise or time. Nonetheless, the Advisory Board provides a unique resource of great experience and wisdom that can be counted on to participate influentially as the AAI operates from day to day.

THE AAI ADVISORY BOARD

Kenneth Adams, Attorney, Washington, DC
Arthur Amolsch, Editor, FTC:Watch
Jonathan Baker, Economist and Law Professor, American  University

David Balto, Attorney, Washington,  DC
Joseph Bauer, Professor of Law, Notre Dame
Maxwell Blecher, Attorney, Los Angeles
James Brock, Economist, Miami University (Ohio)
Joseph Brodley, Professor of Law and Economics, Boston University

Joseph Bruckner, Attorney, Minneapolis
Richard Brunell, Professor of Law, Boston College

Phililppe Brusick, Economist, Geneva
Darren Bush, Professor, University of Houston Law Center
Stephen Calkins, Professor of Law, Wayne State
Michael Carrier, Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School-Camden
Peter Carstensen, Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin
Andrew Chin, Professor of Law, University of North Carolina
William Comanor, Economist, UCLA and UCSB
Patricia Conners, Assistant Attorney General, Florida
John M. Connor, Professor of Economics, Purdue University
Ellen Cooper, Assistant Attorney General, Maryland
Craig Corbitt, Attorney, San Francisco
Eric Cramer, Attorney, Philadelphia
Eugene Crew, Attorney, San Francisco
Paul Dobson, Economist, Loughborough University
Robert W. Doyle, Jr., Attorney, Washington, DC
Beth Farmer, Professor of Law, Pennsylvania State University
Harry First, Professor of Law, New York University
Kathleen E. Foote, Senior Assistant Attorney General, California
Eleanor Fox, Professor of Law, New York University
Michael Freed, Attorney, Chicago
Gary French, Economist, Nathan Associates
Mical Gal, Professor of Law, University of Haifa
Andrew Gavil, Professor of Law, Howard
Joseph Goldberg, Attorney, Albuquerque
Thomas Greaney, Professor of Law, St. Louis University
Hillary Greene, Professor of Law, University of Utah
Warren Grimes, Professor of Law, Southwestern
Mauro Grinberg, Attorney, Sao Paulo
Gregory Gundlach, Professor of Business, Notre Dame
Daniel Gustafson, Attorney, Minneapolis
Norman Hawker, Professor of Business, Western Michigan University
George Hay, Professor of Economics and Law, Cornell
Alfred Kahn, Professor of Economics emeritus, Cornell
Veronica Kayne, Attorney, Washington, DC
Susan Kelly, Attorney, American Public Power Association
John B. Kirkwood, Professor of Law, Seattle University Law School
Joseph Kohn, Attorney, Philadelphia
John Kwoka, Jr., Professor of Economics, Northeastern
James Langenfeld, Economist, LECG
Robert Litan, Brookings Institution
Milton Marquis, Attorney, Washington, DC
Philip Marsden, BIICL, London
Stephen Martin, Professor of Economics, Purdue
Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, (Ret) Chair, Consumer Federation of America
Daniel Mogin, Attorney, San Diego
David Mohre, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association
John M. Nannes, Attorney, Washington, DC
Philip Nelson, Economist, Economists, Inc.
Roger Noll, Professor of Economics, Stanford
Kevin O'Connor, Attorney, Madison
Rudolph Peritz, Professor, New York Law School
Bernard Persky, Attorney, New York
Bernard Rapoport, Insurance Company Founder
J. Douglas Richards, Attorney, New York
Douglas Rosenthal, Attorney, Washington, DC
Stephen Ross, Professor of Law, Pennsylvania State University
Jonathan Rubin, Attorney, Washington, DC
Jonathan Sallet, Attorney, Washington, DC
Steven Salop, Professor of Economics and Law, Georgetown
Marc Seltzer, Attorney, Los Angeles
F.M. Scherer, Economist, Harvard
John Shenefield, Attorney, Washington, DC
Jeffrey Shinder, Attorney, New York

Robert Skirnick, Attorney, New York
Daniel Small, Attorney, Washington, DC
Robert L. Steiner, Economic consultant
Irwin Stelzer, Economist, London
Mary Lou Steptoe, Attorney, Washington, DC
Bonny Sweeney, Attorney, San Diego
Spencer Waller, Professor of Law, Loyola University
Phil Weiser, Professor of Law, University of Colorado
Lawrence White, Professor of Economics, NYU
Craig Wildfang, Attorney, Minneapolis
Charles Wright, Attorney, London, Ontario, Canada
Richard Zerbe, Economist, University of Washington