Howard Shelanski is a Professor of Law at Georgetown University, where he holds the Sheehy Chair in Antitrust Law and Trade Regulation, and a partner in the law firm of Davis, Polk & Wardwell. His scholarship focuses on antitrust and regulation. From July 2013 through January 2017, Mr. Shelanski served in the administration of President Obama as Administrator of the White House office of Information of Regulatory Affairs. His previous government positions include serving as Director of the Bureau of Economics at the Federal Trade Commission, as Chief Economist of the Federal Communications Commission, and as a Senior Economist to the President’s Council of Economic Advisers.
From 1997 through 2009 he taught at the University of California at Berkeley, where he was co-Director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology. Before beginning his academic and government career Mr. Shelanski was a law clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia of the United States Supreme Court, Judge Louis H. Pollak of the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia, and Judge Stephen F. Williams of the United States Court of Appeals in Washington D.C. Mr. Shelanski earned his PhD in economics and his JD from the University of California at Berkeley, and his BA from Haverford College.
