PEOPLE MOVES
TIM WU
FROM : COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY , NEW YORK TO : US GOVERNMENT
WAS : PROFESSOR NOW : SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR TECHNOLOGY
" Wu has previously run for the Democratic nomination for Lieutenant Governor of New York , and was appointed to the Office of New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman "
Tim Wu is a professor of law at Columbia University . He is best known for coining the phrase ‘ network neutrality ’ and for being a leading advocate for an antitrust lawsuit directed at the breakup of Facebook .
His books include Who Controls the Internet ? Illustrations of a Borderless World ; The Master Switch : The Rise and Fall of Information Empires ; The Attention Merchants : The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads and The Curse of Bigness : Antitrust in the New Golden Age . Wu has previously run for the Democratic nomination for Lieutenant Governor of New York , and was appointed to the Office of New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman . On March 5 2021 Wu confirmed he would join Biden ’ s National Economic Council as a special assistant to the president for technology and competition policy .
16 April 2021