Staff
Thomas M. Lenard
President and Senior Fellow
tlenard@techpolicyinstitute.org

Thomas Lenard is president and senior fellow at the Technology Policy Institute. Lenard is the author or coauthor of numerous books and articles on telecommunications, electricity, antitrust, privacy, e-commerce and other regulatory issues. His publications include Net Neutrality or Net Neutering: Should Broadband Internet Services Be Regulated?; The Digital Economy Fact Book; Privacy and the Commercial Use of Personal Information; Competition, Innovation and the Microsoft Monopoly: Antitrust in the Digital Marketplace; and Deregulating Electricity: The Federal Role.
Before joining the Technology Policy Institute, Lenard was acting president, senior vice president for research and senior fellow at The Progress & Freedom Foundation. He has served in senior economics positions at the Office of Management and Budget, the Federal Trade Commission and the Council on Wage and Price Stability, and was a member of the economics faculty at the University of California, Davis. He is a past president and chairman of the board of the National Economists Club.
Lenard is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and holds a PhD in economics from Brown University.
Contributions
- Comments filed with NTIA on the "Information Privacy and Innovation in the Internet Economy.", by Paul H. Rubin and Thomas M. Lenard, June 1, 2010
- Google-AdMob: A Bad Precedent, by Thomas M. Lenard, April 27, 2010
- In Defense of Data: Information and the Costs of Privacy, Policy & Internet Journal, by Thomas M. Lenard and Paul H. Rubin, April 16, 2010
- Broadband Bombshell, by Thomas M. Lenard, Lawrence White and James Riso, April 14, 2010
- Lenard Files Comments with the FCC In the Matter of Preserving the Open Internet Broadband Industry Practices, by Thomas M. Lenard, March 2, 2010
- Increasing Spectrum for Broadband: What Are The Options?, by Lawrence White and Thomas M. Lenard, February 12, 2010
- Lenard Files Comments with FCC on Preserving the Open Internet Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, by Thomas M. Lenard, January 13, 2010
- Lenard Files Comments with FCC on Broadband Study Conducted by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, by Thomas M. Lenard, November 9, 2009
- Renewable Electricity Standards, Energy Efficiency, and Cost-Effective Climate-Change Policy, by Thomas M. Lenard, October 6, 2009
- Lenard and White File ICANN Comments with NTIA, by Thomas M. Lenard and Lawrence White, June 5, 2009
- Lenard Testifies on ICANN Reform, by Thomas M. Lenard, June 4, 2009
- In Defense of Data: Information and the Costs of Privacy, by Paul H. Rubin and Thomas M. Lenard, May 18, 2009
- In Defense of Data: Information and the Costs of Privacy - Executive Summary, by Paul H. Rubin and Thomas M. Lenard, May 18, 2009
- ICANN at a Crossroads: A Proposal for Better Governance and Performance, by Lawrence White and Thomas M. Lenard, March 18, 2009
- ICANN at a Crossroads: A Proposal for Better Governance and Performance - Executive Summary, by Thomas M. Lenard and Lawrence White, March 18, 2009
- Evaluating the Effects of Wholesale Electricity Restructuring, by Thomas M. Lenard and Stephen McGonegal, September 18, 2008
- Lenard Files Comments With FCC on AWS-3 Spectrum Auction, June 5, 2008
- Comments with NTIA on ICANN, Tie with Department of Commerce Should Not Be Terminated, by Thomas M. Lenard, February 5, 2008
- An Examination of the Google-DoubleClick Merger and the Online Advertising Industry: What Are the Risks For Competition and Privacy. Testimony before the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights Committee on the Judiciary, by Thomas M. Lenard, September 27, 2007
- Googling Monopoly, by Paul H. Rubin and Thomas M. Lenard, August 22, 2007
- Privacy and the Commercial Use of Personal Information: The Case of Customer Proprietary Network Information, by Paul H. Rubin and Thomas M. Lenard, August 15, 2007
- Comments to the Federal Communications Commission Regarding Broadband Industry Practices, by Thomas M. Lenard, June 14, 2007
- Vista, Open Access and Net Neutrality, by Thomas M. Lenard, November 25, 2006
- Intellectual Property Index for the Information Technology Sector, by Thomas M. Lenard, November 14, 2006
- Perspective: Time to Rethink Set-Top Box Regulation, by Thomas M. Lenard, September 28, 2006
- Privacy in the Commercial World II, by Thomas M. Lenard, June 20, 2006
- Why Don't We Just Auction the 'White Space'?, by Thomas M. Lenard, May 16, 2006
- DACA Report from the Working Group on New Spectrum Policy, Release 1.0, by Thomas M. Lenard and Lawrence White, March 22, 2006
- Slow Down on Data Security Legislation, by Thomas M. Lenard and Paul H. Rubin, August 9, 2005
- An Economic Analysis of Notification Requirements for Data Security Breaches, by Thomas M. Lenard and Paul H. Rubin, July 12, 2005
- The Streamlined Sales Tax Project: An Initiative Whose Time has Not Yet Come, by Thomas M. Lenard and Stephen McGonegal, May 23, 2005
- Wireless Philadelphia: A Leap Into the Unknown, by Thomas M. Lenard, April 3, 2005
- FERC's New Regulatory Agenda, by Thomas M. Lenard, October 16, 2002
- FERC's Flawed Assessment of the Benefits and Costs of Regional Transmission Organizations, by Thomas M. Lenard, May 22, 2002
- Orbitz: An Antitrust Assessment, by Thomas M. Lenard and William F. Adkinson, Jr., April 22, 2002
- Privacy and the Commercial Use of Personal Information, by Paul H. Rubin and Thomas M. Lenard, January 15, 2002