Laura Caballero-Trenado
Faculty of Law and Social Sciences
University of Cardenal Herrera-CEU
Laura Caballero is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences at the University of Cardenal Herrera-CEU in Valencia, Spain. Prior to joining the University, she worked as an editor in the economics area of some of the most prestigious media in Spain.
Her research bears a multi-disciplinarian thrust, comparing audiovisual policies in the European countries. Her doctoral dissertation, Digital Terrestrial Television in Spain (1997 - 2004), is a study of the convergence of the political, economical, social, technological and legal aspects of the digitalization process in the EU.
Areas of specialization:
- Audiovisual European Policies and Regulation
- European Digitalization Process
- Convergence of Audiovisual and Information Technologies in the EU
- Terrestrial Broadcasting
- New Broadcasting Technologies and the Communications Revolution
J. Scott Marcus
J. Scott Marcus is a Senior Consultant for the WIK, a research institute in economics and regulatory policy for network industries, located in Bad Honnef, Germany. Previously, he served as Senior Advisor for Internet Technology for the FCC. He also served as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Genuity, Inc. (GTE Internetworking). Marcus holds a B.A. in Political Science (Public Administration) and an M.S. from the School of Engineering, Columbia University.
In 2004, Marcus was attached to the European Commission (DG INFSO) as a Transatlantic Fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the United States. Scott is co-editor for public policy and regulation for IEEE Communications Magazine. He served on the board of the American Registry of Internet Numbers (ARIN) from 2000 to 2002, on the Meetings and Conference Board of the IEEE Communications Society from 2001 through 2005, and as Chair of IEEE CNOM. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE. He is the author of numerous papers and of a book on data network design: Designing Wide Area Networks and Internetworks: A Practical Guide, Addison Wesley, 1999.
Much of Marcus' published work is interdisciplinary, combining economic, public policy, and technological analysis.
Areas of specialization:
- Network interconnection (including PSTN, NGN and Internet; Europe and the U.S.)
- Regulation in a converged or NGN environment (including VoIP)
- International comparative analysis of markets and of legal and regulatory institutions (especially Europe and the U.S.)
- Security, trust and privacy for electronic communications networks
- Spectrum management policy
- Cable networks: market analysis, evolution to triple play
- Data network design; capacity planning and performance analysis; and
operations and management
Martin Richardson
School of Economics, College of Business and Economics, Australian National University
Martin Richardson is a New Zealander who holds a Masters degree from the Australian National University (ANU) and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. He has taught at universities in the U.S. and New Zealand and took a chair at the ANU in 2003. His teaching and research interests lie in trade theory, industrial organization and applied microeconomics. He has published primarily in trade theory but also on a range of other applied microeconomics subjects in journals such as the Economic Journal, the Journal of International Economics and the European Economic Review. He has been a lay member of the New Zealand High Court for 6 years.
Areas of specialization:
- Industrial Trade Theory
- Applied Microeconomics
- Commercial Policy
- Industrial Organization
