Reed Hundt

Reed E. Hundt served four years as Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), from 1993 to 1997. Prior to his position as Chairman of the FCC, Mr. Hundt was a partner in the Washington, DC office of Latham & Watkins, a national and international law firm.  

Reed Hundt is a part-time advisor to McKinsey & Company, and Co-Chairman of The Forum on Communications and Society at The Aspen Institute. Mr. Hundt serves on the boards of directors of Intel, Pronto Networks, Tropos Networks, Polyserve, Entrisphere, and Access Spectrum.  He is a special advisor to Blackstone Group, a New York-based private equity firm. He is a member of the advisory committee at the Yale School of Management.

Reed Hundt is the author of You Say You Want A Revolution: A Story of Information Age Politics (Yale University Press, 2000) and In China's Shadow: The Crisis of American Entrepreneurship (Yale University Press, 2006).  

Reed Hundt is a magna cum laude graduate of Yale College, earning a Bachelor of Arts with Exceptional Distinction in History (1969).  He is also a graduate of Yale Law School (1974) where he was a member of the executive board of the Yale Law Journal.  Mr. Hundt clerked for the late Chief Judge Harrison L. Winter of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and is a member of the District of Columbia, Maryland, and California bars.