Professor Martin Cave: Understanding spectrum policy 2
Martin Cave is the Director of the Centre for Management under Regulation at Warwick University Business School. For the UK government he has carried out the Independent Review of Spectrum Management (2002) which led to the introduction of spectrum trading as well as completing an audit of public sector spectrum holdings in 2005. Professor Cave has advised a wide range of governments and regulators as well as the World Bank and was a member of the UK Competition Commission from 1996 to 2002. He has written 139 books and articles, including The Essentials of Modern Spectrum Management (2007) with William Webb and Chris Doyle.
Kris Shields: Auctions course
Kris Shields leads Computech’s Auction Practice, and specializes in auction systems design and development. He has built spectrum auction systems for a variety of spectrum regulators, including the US, Mexico, and Sweden. Mr. Shields has actively participated in the
design, development, and live auction support for the last 20+ FCC auctions, and under his lead, Computech’s auction team delivered and supported the FCC’s 700MHz auction system, which raised $19.1 billion in 2008. Mr. Shields is a PMP-certified Project Manager with an MBA from UMD’s Smith School of Business, and an undergraduate degree in Information Systems.
Dr Chris Doyle: Spectrum pricing & Auctions course
Dr Chris Doyle is a specialist in regulation and
competition issues affecting the electronic communications sector. He is
an Associate at Warwick Business School and at the Department of
Economics, Warwick University. Among his many consulting assignments Dr
Doyle was the principal advisor and auction designer for world’s first
ascending clock spectrum auction held in Nigeria in 2001. He has advised
numerous clients about auction design and auction bid strategies. He is
a co-author of Essentials of Modern Spectrum Management, Cambridge University Press 2007.
Ann LaFrance: Legal issues in spectrum management
Ann LaFrance is Coordinating Partner for the Squire Sanders
communications law team in EMEA and leader of the firm's European
data protection and privacy practice. Ms. LaFrance has over two
decades of experience working on regulatory, policy, competition and
commercial matters involving the TMT sector in Europe, the United
States, the Middle East and key emerging markets around the globe.
She began her career as a telecommunications lawyer with Squire
Sanders in Washington, DC, and from 1996-2004, she served as Chief
International Counsel for MCI Communications Corp. (since acquired by
Verizon) in Washington, Brussels and London/Reading. Now based in
London, Ms. LaFrance's practice covers a wide range of
telecommunications and media issues involving national and
international law, policy and regulation, including spectrum policy
and licensing matters.
Richard Womersley: Understanding spectrum policy 1 & 2
Richard
Womersley has an honours degree in Electrical and Electronic
Engineering accompanied by over 15 years consulting, operational and
business experience in the fields of radio spectrum management, public
telecoms and digital broadcasting. He is an experienced trainer and has
conducted consultancy projects for regulators, operators, governments
and end-users on issues covering national and international policy;
regulation and its implications; pricing, auctions and licensing;
service and technology roll-out; and interference. His work has spanned
Europe (including the European Commission, EBU, Ofcom and the UK
Government), the Middle East, the Caribbean, the Americas, Africa,
South Asia, East Asia and Australasia.
Martin Sims: Understanding spectrum policy 1 & 2
Martin Sims is a journalist and academic who specialises in
communications policy issues. He set up PolicyTracker, the spectrum
policy newsletter and has published articles on many facets of the
subject. His work has been published in academic journals and books and
he is a former editor of Intermedia, the policy journal of the
International Institute of Communications. As a journalist he was a
news editor in independent radio then worked for BBC network news. He
has an honours degree and a masters degree in communication studies and
lectures at the University of East London.
