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Eli M. Noam (born August 22, 1946) is an American economist and professor at
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, where he is the Paul Garrett Chair in Public Policy and Business Responsibility. He is the director of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI). He works on the economics, management, and policy of media and the digital world, including global media ownership and on next-generation "Cloud-TV." He has written over 400 articles and has authored, edited, and co-edited over 30
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.


Education

Noam attended
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, where he obtained several degrees, including a
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in 1970
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and ''summa cum laude'', a
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in 1972, a
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in 1975, and a Ph.D. in 1975. His dissertation advisors were
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(later Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisors) and
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(later a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics).


Military service

Noam served in the
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during the
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in 1967 and the October War in 1973. He also serves with the
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as a 1st Lt., Mission Pilot for Search and Rescue in the New York Wing, Phoenix Squadron.


Career

Noam began working as a professor at Columbia Business School in 1976. He took leave to serve a 3-year stint as
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of the New York Public Service Commission, where he took a lead role on issues of local telecom competition, universal service, privacy, and network upgrades. He has also taught at
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, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Swiss universities of Fribourg and St. Gallen (where he served as the first Virtual Visiting Professor). He is active in the development of electronic distance education. Noam serves as the
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of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI). CITI is a
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-based research center focusing on
management Management (or managing) is the administration of organizations, whether businesses, nonprofit organizations, or a Government agency, government bodies through business administration, Nonprofit studies, nonprofit management, or the political s ...
and
policy Policy is a deliberate system of guidelines to guide decisions and achieve rational outcomes. A policy is a statement of intent and is implemented as a procedure or protocol. Policies are generally adopted by a governance body within an or ...
in
telecommunications Telecommunication, often used in its plural form or abbreviated as telecom, is the transmission of information over a distance using electronic means, typically through cables, radio waves, or other communication technologies. These means of ...
,
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, and electronic
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. Noam also initiated the
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concentration in the Management of Media, Communications, and Information at the Business School. Noam's articles and books are on subjects such as
communication Communication is commonly defined as the transmission of information. Its precise definition is disputed and there are disagreements about whether Intention, unintentional or failed transmissions are included and whether communication not onl ...
s,
information Information is an Abstraction, abstract concept that refers to something which has the power Communication, to inform. At the most fundamental level, it pertains to the Interpretation (philosophy), interpretation (perhaps Interpretation (log ...
, public
choice A choice is the range of different things from which a being can choose. The arrival at a choice may incorporate Motivation, motivators and Choice modelling, models. Freedom of choice is generally cherished, whereas a severely limited or arti ...
,
public In public relations and communication science, publics are groups of individual people, and the public (a.k.a. the general public) is the totality of such groupings. This is a different concept to the sociology, sociological concept of the ''Öf ...
finance Finance refers to monetary resources and to the study and Academic discipline, discipline of money, currency, assets and Liability (financial accounting), liabilities. As a subject of study, is a field of Business administration, Business Admin ...
, and general
regulation Regulation is the management of complex systems according to a set of rules and trends. In systems theory, these types of rules exist in various fields of biology and society, but the term has slightly different meanings according to context. Fo ...
. He was President of the International Media Management Academic Association, 2013–2015. Noam helped to create, and co-taught, the first stand-alone course dedicated to exploring the human rights responsibilities of global business at Columbia Business School in the early 1990s.


Honors

Noam has received honorary doctorates from the University of Munich (2006) and the University of Marseilles (2008).


Other activities

Noam was a member of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC), a
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appointment, from 2003 to 2005. He was a regular columnist for the ''Financial Times'' online edition. Noam has been a member of advisory boards for the Federal government's telecommunications network, of the IRS computer system modernization, the National Commission on the Status of Women in Computing, the NY Governor's Task Force on New Media, and of the Intek Corporation (UK). He is Chairman of the Nexus Mundi Foundation (tele-medicine in Africa), and served on boards of the
Oxford Internet Institute The Oxford Internet Institute (OII) serves as a hub for interdisciplinary research, combining social and computer science to explore information, communication, and technology. It is an integral part of the University of Oxford's Social Science ...
, Jones International University (the first accredited online university), the
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, the Minority Media Council, and on several committees of the National Research Council. He was on the Faculty Steering Committee of the
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(
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), the research advisory board of the
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(1976-1980), the Mass Media committee of the ACLU (1982-1986), and the Consumer Telecommunications Information Project of the
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. He served on scientific advisory boards for the governments of
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and
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. He is a member of the
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Senate, representing his faculty's tenured professors. Noam has been a participant member of the
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and of the
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. He is a licensed radio amateur advanced class, and a commercially rated and active pilot. He holds a US patent on a smart packet/e-wallet system.


Personal life

Noam is married to Nadine Strossen, the former National President of the American Civil Liberties Union (
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).


Select publications


Books (authored, edited, or co-edited)

* ''Who Owns the World’s Media? Media Concentration and Ownership Around the World'' (Oxford, 2016) * ''Media Ownership and Concentration in America'' (Oxford, 2009). Received the Picard Prize for Best Book in Media Economics in 2010 by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Media * ''Interconnecting the Network of Networks'' (MIT, 2001) * ''Telecommunications in Europe'' (Oxford, 1992) * ''Television in Europe'' (Oxford, 1992) * ''Broadband Networks, Smart Grids and Climate Change'' (Springer, 2012) * ''Peer-to-Peer Video as a distribution Medium: The Economics, Policy, and Culture of Today’s New Mass Medium'' (Springer, 2008) * ''Mobile Media: Content and Services for Wireless Communications'' (Erlbaum, 2005) * ''Internet Television'' (Erlbaum, 2004) * ''Competition for the Mobile Internet'' (Artech, 2004) * ''Real Options: The New Investment Theory and its Implications for Telecommunications Economics'' (Kluwer, 2000) * ''Public Television in America'' (Bertelsmann, 1998) * ''Privacy in Telecommunications: Markets, Rights, and Regulations'' (United Church of Christ, 1994) * ''The International Market for Film and Television'' (Ablex, 1992) * ''Asymmetric Deregulation'' (
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, 1992) * ''Telecommunications in Africa'' (Oxford, 1999) * ''Telecommunications in Latin America'' (Oxford, 1998) * ''Telecommunications in Western Asia'' (Oxford, 1998) * ''Law of International Telecommunications in the United States'' (Nomos, 1988) * ''The Cost of Libel'' (Columbia, 1989) * ''Video Media Competition: Regulation, Economics, and Technology'' (Columbia, 1985) * ''Telecommunications Regulation: Today and Tomorrow'' (Harcourt, 1982) * ''The Impact of Information Technologies on the Service Sector'' (Ballinger, 1986) * ''Technology Without Boundaries'' (Edited the late Ithiel de Sola Pool's manuscript; Harvard, 1990) * ''The Telecommunications Revolution'' (Routledge, 1992) * ''Telecommunications in the Pacific Basin'' (Oxford, 1994) * ''Private Networks and Public Objectives'' (Elsevier, 1997) * ''Globalism and Localism in Telecommunications'' (Elsevier, 1997) * ''The Telecommunications Revolution'' (Routledge, 1992) * Textbook: ''Media and Digital Management – Foundations'' (Palgrave/Macmillan. Forthcoming) * Textbook: ''Media and Digital Management – Advanced'' (Palgrave/Macmillan. Forthcoming) * ''The Content, Impact, and Regulation of Streaming Video: The Next Generation of Media Emerges'' (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021) * ''The Technology, Business, and Economics of Streaming Video: The Next Generation of Media Emerges'' (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021) In Japanese * ''The New Economy'', Eli Noam, Thomas Hazlett, Lawrence Lessig, Richard Epstein (2005) * ''Telecommunications Meltdown,'' co-author (2005)


External links


Columbia Institute for Tele-Information


References


Columbia Bio
{{DEFAULTSORT:Noam, Eli M. Columbia University faculty Jewish American academics Jewish American non-fiction writers 1946 births Living people Harvard Law School alumni Academics from Jerusalem American male non-fiction writers 21st-century American Jews Harvard College alumni