The Federal Communications Commission has made two senior appointments, both highlighting its increased focus on the internet and broadband provision.
The regulator has named Phoebe Yang as senior adviser to the FCC chairman Julius Genachowski on…
The Federal Communications Commission has made two senior appointments, both highlighting its increased focus on the internet and broadband provision.
The regulator has named Phoebe Yang as senior adviser to the FCC chairman Julius Genachowski on broadband, while Zac Katz has been brought in as the commission’s new legal adviser, with particular responsibility for wireline communications, international and internet issues.
In her new role, Yang will head the core team managing the FCC’s broadband priorities, as set forth in the National Broadband Plan. Her responsibilities include advancing the regulator’s broadband agenda with other international and domestic agencies and serving as the FCC’s representative to the Executive Branch inter-agency working group charged with implementation of the National Broadband Plan across the federal government. Yang most recently served as general counsel of the Omnibus Broadband Initiative at the FCC, where she was chair of the Broadband Steering Committee.
Her prior experience includes executive roles at Discovery Communications, as VP of Corporate Development and VP of Digital Media Operations and Strategy, and at AOL Time Warner as VP of International Strategy and Policy focused on China. She also served under President Bill Clinton as Special Coordinator for China Rule of Law and practiced corporate law at Hogan & Hartson.
For the past year, Katz has served as deputy chief of the White House Counsel’s Office of Strategic Planning and Policy Analysis. He previously practiced law at Munger, Tolles & Olson in Los Angeles, focusing on transactional and litigation matters involving intellectual property.
Katz succeeds Priya Aiyar, who has been appointed deputy chief counsel to the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Oil Drilling.
