Antitrust Law Daily Wrap Up, AGENCY NEWS: Bureau of Economics Director Shelanski leaves FTC; Ippolito named Acting Director, (Jul 9, 2013)
Organizations Mentioned:Bureau of Economics | Davis Polk & Wardwell, LLP | Kellogg Huber Hansen | Northwestern University | University of California
Howard Shelanski, Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Economics, has left the agency to take up a position as Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Office of Management and Budget, the FTC announced today. Pauline Ippolito will assume the position of Acting Director of the Bureau of Economics.
Shelanski had served as Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Economics since July 2012, while on leave from teaching law at the Georgetown University Law Center. He was previously Deputy Director of the Bureau from 2009 to 2011. Shelanski served as Chief Economist for the Federal Communications Commission from 1999 to 2000, and as Senior Economist for the President’s Council of Economic Advisers at the White House from 1998 to 1999. He practiced law at the Washington, D.C. firm of Kellogg Huber Hansen Todd & Evans, prior to joining the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley School of Law in 1997, and has served as of counsel to Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP. His teaching and research focuses on antitrust, regulation, and telecommunications policy.
The former Director received a Ph.D. in Economics and a J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, and a B.A. from Haverford College. Following law school, he clerked for Judge Stephen F. Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, Judge Louis H. Pollak of the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia, and Justice Antonin Scalia of the United States Supreme Court.
During her 30-year career at the agency, Ippolito has served in a range of management and staff positions, including Deputy Director of the Bureau of Economics. She holds a Ph.D. from Northwestern University, and is a nationally recognized scholar whose research and policy interests include the economics of risk and information in consumer good markets, the design of public policy for advertising and labeling, and the effects of consumer policy choices on business behavior and consumer welfare.
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