Chairman Pai Announces Jeffrey Prince as New FCC Chief Economist

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai announced the appointment of Jeffrey Prince as chief economist of the FCC. Dr. Prince currently serves as a professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business. He will begin work at the FCC on Sept 3.

Dr. Prince is the Harold A. Poling Chair in Strategic Management and the co-director of the Institute for Business Analytics at the Kelley School of Business. He earned his doctorate in economics from Northwestern University and currently serves as a co-editor at the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy and on the board of editors at Information Economics and Policy. Dr. Prince’s research at Indiana primarily focuses on the fields of industrial organization and applied econometrics. He has published works on dynamic demand for computers, Internet adoption and usage, the inception of online/offline product competition, and telecom bundling.

Chairman Pai also thanked Dr Babette Boliek for her work during her term as FCC chief economist, and wished her well as she returns to Pepperdine.