Francois Bar
Associate Professor of Communications at the Annenberg School for Communication
François Bar is Associate Professor of Communication in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. He directs the Annenberg Research Network on International Communication. Prior to USC, he held faculty positions at Stanford University and at the University of California at San Diego. Since 1983, he has been a member of the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE), at UC Berkeley, where he previously served as program director for research on telecommunications policy and information networking. He has held visiting faculty appointments at the University of Toronto, the University of Paris-XIII, Théséus, and Eurécom.
He received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, studied at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and holds a Diplôme d'Ingénieur from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (ENPC) in Paris. His current research interests include comparative telecommunication policy, as well as economic, strategic and social dimensions of computer networking, new media and the Internet. His research has been published in books of collected studies, in policy reports, and in such journals as Telecommunications Policy, The Information Society, Organization Science, Infrastructure Economics and Policy, Communications & Strategies, Réseaux, and the International Journal of Technology Management. He currently serves on the advisory boards of non-profit Compumentor, and start-ups Clickability and Polaris Wireless.
