Robert Pepper

Robert M. Pepper Ph. D is a specialist in communications policy. He received his BA. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. and held faculty positions at the University of Iowa, Indiana University, and University of Pennsylvania, and was a research affiliate at Harvard University. Following this he was Director of the Annenberg Washington Program in Communications Policy. He was subsequently Chief of the Office of Plans and Policy and Chief of Policy Development at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, and office now known as OSP. At the FCC, he worked on issues such as implementing telecommunications legislation, planning for the transition to digital television, designing and implementing the first U.S. spectrum auctions. He has also been Acting Associate Administrator at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration and initiator of a program on Computers, Communications and Information Policy at the National Science Foundation. He is Vice President for Global Technology Policy at Cisco, having joined the company in 2005.