Chairman Carr Appoints Dan Daly as Managing Director

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr announced the appointment of Daniel Daly as agency Managing Director. Daly has been Deputy Managing Director prior to this appointment and has two decades of leadership experience in the Office of the Managing Director. Daly has been in the senior leadership of the Office of Managing Director for two decades, having served as Senior Counsel for Financial Operations starting in 2006, Chief of Staff starting in 2009, and, most recently, Deputy Managing Director since 2022. He also served as Acting Chief of Staff of the FCC’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau in 2008 and as Counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform from 2002 to 2006. Dan received the FCC Distinguished Service Medal (Gold Award) in 2024 for sustained extraordinary accomplishments related to the mission and objectives of the Commission.