Chairman Pai Announces Wayne Leighton as Chief of FCC Office of Strategic Planning and Policy Analysis

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai announced that the agency has chosen Wayne Leighton as chief of the FCC’s Office of Strategic Planning and Policy Analysis, continuing the work he has been doing as acting chief. Prior to serving as acting chief, Leighton served as a senior economist in the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau and as wireless advisor to then-FCC Commissioner Deborah Taylor Tate. Prior to his FCC service, Leighton worked for an economic consulting firm, was senior economist with the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and has been a professor of economics at Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala. He earned a doctorate in economics from George Mason University and undergraduate degrees in business and economics from Texas A&M University.