Howard Shelanski is Professor of Law at Georgetown University where he holds the Sheehy Chair in Antitrust Law and Trade Regulation. His research and writing focus on competition policy and regulation. Howard is also a Partner at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, where he represents clients across a range of industries in merger and conduct investigations by federal antitrust agencies and other regulatory authorities.
From 2013 to 2017, Howard served as Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. Before that, he was Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Economics. Howard also served as the FCC’s Chief Economist and as a Senior Economist for the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. He began his career clerking for Judge Stephen Williams on the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, Judge Louis H. Pollak on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and Justice Antonin Scalia. Howard earned his BA at Haverford College and his JD and PhD at the University of California at Berkeley.
