Nick Degani is the Chief Strategist of the Digital Progress Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to bipartisan, incremental progress in tech and telecom policy that he co-founded in 2021. He is also the Principal at Reticulated Strategies LLC, his consulting firm, and an Adjunct Professor at the Antonin Scalia School of Law at George Mason University. Nick spent almost fourteen years at the Federal Communications Commission, including four years as Senior Counsel to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai and a brief stint as the agency’s General Counsel. During that time, he oversaw the agency’s work on the Restoring Internet Freedom Order, the creation of the nation’s first broadband-support auctions, the nation’s second incentive auction and the C-band auction, which raised over $80 billion for the U.S. Treasury, the opening of the 6 GHz band for Wi-Fi, the designation of 988 as the three-digit code for mental health emergencies, the agency’s work on robocalls, combatting China’s influence on American networks, space policy, and many other issues. He graduated from Yale University with a degree in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science and History, graduated from Harvard Law School, and clerked for Sixth Circuit Judge Jeffrey Sutton.
