Research Associate
Center for Technology, Policy and Industrial Development (CTPID) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Dr. William Lehr is recognized international expert in filed of industry and regulatory economics of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) industries. In addition to this, he is the well know economist and industrial consultant. His main research area is the mixture of technical, economic/business strategy, and public policy issues that arises in the development of internet infrastructure.
Previously, Dr. Lehr was an associate research scholar and assistant professor of finance and economics in the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University, and had given lectures on media economics, telecommunications regulation, and eBusiness strategies in the United States and Europe. He was the associate director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's research program on Internet & Telecoms Convergence (ITC, http://itc.mit.edu). Currently, he is a research associate in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is currently working with the Communications Futures Program ( http://cfp.mit.edu ) (http://people.csail.mit.edu/wlehr/ )
Dr. Lehr graduated from university of Pennsylvania with the MSE degree in 1984. He did MBA in finance from Wharton School in 1984. He has a PhD in Economics from Stanford University (1992).
