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FCC CHAIRMAN JULIUS GENACHOWSKI ANNOUNCES SENIOR STAFF IN 
INTERNATIONAL AND CONSUMER AND GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS BUREAUS
Washington, DC -- Today, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski 
announced the appointment of Mindel De La Torre as Chief of the International Bureau and 
Yul Kwon as Deputy Chief of the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau.
“The FCC has an important role to play in empowering and protecting consumers and ensuring 
that they have access to world-leading communications networks and technologies,” said 
Chairman Genachowski. “These talented individuals have vast public and private sector 
experience in communications policy and I am delighted to have their expertise at the agency.”
Chief, International Bureau, Mindel De La Torre. Since 1998, Ms. De La Torre has been the 
president of the consulting firm Telecommunications Management Group, Inc. (TMG). Prior to 
joining TMG, Ms. De La Torre was the deputy chief of the Telecommunications Division at the 
International Bureau, which she joined in December 1994. Ms. De La Torre also worked at the 
Department of Commerce -- for over four years at the National Telecommunications and 
Information Administration (NTIA) and for three years in the General Counsel's office. She has 
been a member of various U.S. delegations to International Telecommunication Union 
conferences, such as World Radiocommunication Conferences, World Telecommunication 
Development Conferences, and Plenipotentiary Conferences. Ms. De La Torre has a B.A. from 
Vanderbilt University and a J.D. from the University of Texas. Having lived overseas most of 
her life, she speaks fluent Portuguese, French, and Spanish, and is proficient in Italian.
Deputy Chief, Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau, Yul Kwon. Mr. Kwon’s diverse 
career spans across law, technology, business, and media. His government experience includes 
lecturing at the FBI Academy, drafting science and technology legislation as an aide to Senator 
Joseph Lieberman, and clerking for Judge Barrington D. Parker on the 2nd Circuit Court of 
Appeals. In the business and technology sector, Mr. Kwon has held positions at McKinsey & 
Company, Google, and the Trium Group. He also practiced law as an attorney at Harris, 
Wiltshire & Grannis and at Venture Law Group. In 2006, Mr. Kwon became the first Asian 
American to win the CBS reality show, Survivor. His subsequent media activities include 
working as a special correspondent for CNN and as a co-host for the Discovery Channel. Mr. 
Kwon obtained his B.S. degree in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University and his J.D. from 
Yale Law School, where he served on the editorial board of the Yale Law Journal.
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