Jeffrey A. Eisenach is an American

economist An economist is a professional and practitioner in the social sciences, social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy. Within this ...

. He is a visiting scholar at the

American Enterprise Institute The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, known simply as the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), is a center-right Washington, D.C.–based think tank that researches government, politics, economics, and social welfare. ...

,Jeffrey Eisenach
American Enterprise Institute. and has a position with

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, a consulting company.Dr. Jeffrey A. Eisenach
National Economic Research Associates. Eisenach has participated as an expert in government evaluations of economic and state utility issues in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and South America. In 2016, Eisenach served on then President-Elect Donald Trump's transition team as a member of the

Federal Communications Commission The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that regulates communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable across the United States. The FCC maintains jurisdiction ...

agency landing team. Eisenach's participation on this landing team was notable for his industry ties and past advocacy for deregulation of telecommunications companies. Eisenach attended Claremont Men's College, now Claremont McKenna College, in Claremont, California.

Controversies

In the 1990s, Eisenach was a close associate of

Newt Gingrich Newton Leroy Gingrich (; né McPherson; born June 17, 1943) is an American politician and author who served as the 50th speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. A member of the Republican Party, he was the U ...

. He headed

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, and later the Progress and Freedom Foundation, which Gingrich used to raise tax-exempt funds for his Renewing American Civilization campaign. Speaker Gingrich was later reprimanded by the House of Representatives by a vote of 395-28 and fined $300,000 for using these tax-exempt funds for partisan purposes and providing untrue information to a House Ethics Committee investigation of the matter. In 2016, ''

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'' found that Eisenach advocated against proposed

net neutrality Network neutrality, often referred to as net neutrality, is the principle that Internet service providers (ISPs) must treat all Internet communications equally, offering users and online content providers consistent rates irrespective of co ...

regulations in his capacity as an

(AEI) visiting scholar, including publishing AEI working papers, inviting FCC officials to speak out against net neutrality at both private and public AEI events, and testifying before congress regarding the potential harms of net neutrality using his AEI title, while simultaneously working as a paid consultant for Verizon and Verizon's trade association, GSMA. The report found that Eisenach rarely disclosed this conflict of interest in his policy work as a scholar at AEI.

Publications

* Jeffrey A. Eisenach, R. May, ed. ''Communications Deregulation and FCC Reform: What Comes Next?''. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001 () * Jeffrey A. Eisenach, Thomas M. Lenard, ed. ''Competition, Innovation and the Microsoft Monopoly: Antitrust in the Digital Marketplace''. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999 () * Jeffrey A. Eisenach, Albert Stephen Hanser, ed. ''Readings in Renewing American Civilization''. McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1993 ()

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Eisenach, Jeffrey Living people Year of birth missing (living people) American economists Information Technology and Innovation Foundation