Shelanski Nominated for Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs

President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate Howard A. Shelanski to be Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Office of Management and Budget.

Shelanski is the Director of the Bureau of Economics at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), a position he has held since 2012. Mr. Shelanski is currently on leave from the Georgetown University Law Center, where he has been a professor since 2011. From 2011 to 2012, he was also Of Counsel to the law firm Davis, Polk & Wardwell. Prior to this, he was the Deputy Director for Antitrust in the FTC's Bureau of Economics from 2009 to 2011. Before joining the FTC, Mr. Shelanski was on the faculty at the University of California at Berkeley from 1997 to 2009. He served as Chief Economist of the Federal Communications Commission from 1999 to 2000 and as Senior Economist for the President's Council of Economic Advisers at the White House from 1998 to 1999. He was an associate with Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd & Evans from 1995 to 1997. He served as a clerk for Justice Antonin G. Scalia of the United States Supreme Court, for Judge Louis H. Pollak of the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia, and for Judge Stephen F. Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Mr. Shelanski received a B.A. from Haverford College, and a J.D. and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.