Verveer Tapped For State Telecom Slot
As Tech Daily Dose reported last month, Jenner & Block attorney Philip Verveer has now officially been tapped for the impossibly titled position of Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Communications and Information Policy in the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs and U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy. Verveer has practiced communications and antitrust law in the government and in private law practice for more than 35 years, according to a White House personnel announcement. From 1969 to 1981, Verveer was a trial attorney in the Justice Department's Antitrust Division; as a supervisory attorney in the Bureau of Competition at the FTC; and as the chief of the FCC's Cable Television Bureau, the Broadcast Bureau, and the Common Carrier Bureau.
Between 1973 and 1977, he served as the DOJ Antitrust Division's first lead counsel in the investigation and prosecution of United States v. American Tel. & Tel. Co., the case that eventuated in the divestiture of the Bell System. As a Bureau Chief at the FCC, Verveer participated in a series of decisions that enabled increased competition in video and telephone services and limited regulation of information services, the bio stated. Since 1981, Verveer has practiced law in the private sector and in 1995 and 1996 he chaired the federal advisory committee that identified spectrum requirements necessary to afford public safety organizations efficient and interoperable wireless communications. He has also served on the Visiting Committee of the University of Chicago Law School and the Executive Committee of the Alumni Board of Governors of Georgetown University.
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