22 Facts About Eli Noam

Eli M Noam was born on August 22,1946 and is an American economist and professor at Columbia Business School, where he is the Paul Garrett Chair in Public Policy and Business Responsibility.

Eli Noam is the director of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information.

Eli Noam served in the Israel Air Force during the Six-Day War in 1967 and the October War in 1973.

Eli Noam serves with the Civil Air Patrol as a 1st Lt.

Eli Noam began working as a professor at Columbia Business School in 1976.

Eli Noam took leave to serve a 3-year stint as Commissioner of the New York Public Service Commission, where he took a lead role on issues of local telecom competition, universal service, privacy, and network upgrades.

Eli Noam has taught at Columbia Law School, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Swiss universities of Fribourg and St Gallen.

Eli Noam is active in the development of electronic distance education.

Eli Noam serves as the Director of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information.

Eli Noam initiated the MBA concentration in the Management of Media, Communications, and Information at the Business School.

Eli Noam helped to create, and co-taught, the first stand-alone course dedicated to exploring the human rights responsibilities of global business at Columbia Business School in the early 1990s.

Eli Noam has received honorary doctorates from the University of Munich and the University of Marseilles.

Eli Noam was a member of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee, a White House appointment, from 2003 to 2005.

Eli Noam was a regular columnist for the Financial Times online edition.

Eli Noam has been a member of advisory boards for the Federal government's telecommunications network, of the IRS computer system modernization, the National Commission on the Status of Women in Computing, the NY Governor's Task Force on New Media, and of the Intek Corporation.

Eli Noam is Chairman of the Nexus Mundi Foundation, and served on boards of the Oxford Internet Institute, Jones International University, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, the Minority Media Council, and on several committees of the National Research Council.

Eli Noam was on the Faculty Steering Committee of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, the research advisory board of the New York City Police Department, the Mass Media committee of the ACLU, and the Consumer Telecommunications Information Project of the United Church of Christ.

Eli Noam served on scientific advisory boards for the governments of Ireland and Sweden.

Eli Noam is a member of the Columbia University Senate, representing his faculty's tenured professors.

Eli Noam has been a participant member of the World Economic Forum and of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Eli Noam is a licensed radio amateur advanced class, and a commercially rated and active pilot.

Eli Noam is married to Nadine Strossen, the former National President of the American Civil Liberties Union.