Tim Wu

Future Tense Fellow; Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow, 2010

Tim Wu is a Future Tense Fellow at New America and a professor at Columbia Law School. He was also a 2010 Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow with the New America Fellows Program and is also the author of The Master Switch: the Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Knopf, 2010) and the co-author of Who Controls the Internet? (Oxford U. Press, 2006). Mr. Wu was recognized in 2013 by National Law Journal as one America's 100 most influential lawyers, and has also been recognized by Scientific American magazine, the World Economic Forum, and 02138 magazine.

Mr. Wu's best known work is the development of Net Neutrality theory, but he has also written about copyright, international trade, and the study of law-breaking. He was formerly Senior Advisor to the Federal Trade Commission, previously worked in the internet industry in Silicon Valley, and was a law clerk for Judge Richard Posner and Justice Stephen Breyer. Mr. Wu writes regularly for the The New Yorker, the New Republic, and Slate magazine. Mr. Wu graduated from McGill University and Harvard Law School.

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