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 NEWS  Federal  Communications  Commission  445  12  th  Street,  S.  W.  Washington,  D.  C.  20554  This  is  an  unofficial  announcement  of  Commission  action.  Release  of  the  full  text  of  a  Commission  order  constitutes  official  action.  See  MCI  v.  FCC.  515  F  2d  385  (D.  C.  Circ  1974).  News  Media  Information  202  /  418-  0500  Internet:  http://  www.  fcc.  gov  TTY:  1-  888-  835-  5322 
 FOR  IMMEDIATE  RELEASE:  NEWS  MEDIA  CONTACT:  February  18,  2004  Audrey  Spivack  202-  418-  0512 
 MARTIN  PERRY  NAMED  FCC  CHIEF  ECONOMIST 
 Washington,  DC  –  Martin  Perry  has  been  named  Chief  Economist  of  the  FCC,  effective  January  2004.  Perry,  a  lawyer  as  well  as  an  economist,  is  on  leave  from  Rutgers  University 
 where  he  has  been  on  the  Economics  faculty  since  1989  and  served  as  Chair  of  the  Department  for  five  years. 


 Perry  is  an  internationally  recognized  scholar  and  antitrust  expert.  He  has  published  extensively  on  several  economic  issues  relevant  to  the  communications  industry.  He  has  also 
 advised  the  Department  of  Justice  on  competitive  issues  in  several  merger  investigations. 
 Perry  has  served  as  a  Visiting  Professor  at  the  University  of  California  at  Berkeley  (Economics  Department),  Rutgers  Law  School  at  Newark,  Washington  University  (Olin  School 
 of  Business),  and  University  of  Pennsylvania  (Wharton  School  of  Management).  Perry  is  also  a  Research  Affiliate  at  the  Institute  for  Economic  Analysis  in  Barcelona  Spain,  one  of  the  premier 
 economic  research  centers  in  Europe. 
 Prior  to  joining  Rutgers  University,  he  was  a  member  of  the  technical  staff  at  Bell  Telephone  Laboratories,  Inc.  (1976-  1983),  and  Bell  Communications  Research  (1984-  1989). 


 Perry  received  his  A.  B.  in  mathematics,  with  honors  at  the  University  of  Missouri  at  Columbia,  and  his  A.  M.  and  Ph.  D  in  economics  at  Stanford  University.  In  addition,  he  received 
 his  J.  D.  at  Rutgers  Law  School  at  Newark. 
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