Alan Pearce, Ph.D., Consultant, FCC/Federal Govt. Relations
Dr. Alan Pearce is Great American Broadband’s Regulatory Consultant and the founder of Information Age Economics.
Dr. Pearce founded Information Age Economics in 1979 after a senior level policy career in the US Government from 1970-78. He was one of the prime architects of pro-competitive public policies at the Federal Communications Commission where he helped lay the foundation of a new information era, serving first as Chief Economist for Chairman Dean Burch and then for Chairman Richard Wiley.
Dr. Pearce next became chief economist of the Subcommittee on Telecommunication in the US House of Representatives and then joined the US Office of Telecommunications Policy in the Executive Office of the President.
Since leaving the government, Dr. Pearce has provided professional services to telecommunications, wireless, satellite, cable TV, radio and TV broadcasting, movie and program production companies, along with software and equipment manufacturers. He has also consulted with a wide variety of government organizations at the international, federal, state, and local levels, and has assisted clients in the US and overseas with negotiations on privatization’s and appropriate regulatory structures, antitrust issues, spectrum auctions, mergers and acquisitions, appraisals and valuations, franchises, and service rates.
He was educated at The London School of Economics and Political Science, The University of London and Indiana University.
Management Team
- Robert Schmidt
- Iftikhar Shirazi
- Greg Williams
- Lori Bridegroom
- Alan Pearce
- Steve Coran
Advisory Board
- James F. Green
- Otto W. Hoernig, Jr
- W. Terry McBrayer
- Congressman
Michael Oxley (Ret)
- Des R. Sood
- Thomas Wheeler
