Blair Levin
Legislative Policy Conference
Blair Levin
Blair Levin serves as a Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Metropolitan Policy Project at the Brookings Institution. He also is the Policy Advisor to New Street Research, an international equity research firm. Blair began his career practicing law in North Carolina. He then served as Chief of Staff to FCC Chairman Reed Hundt (1993-1997), was a policy analyst for the equity research teams at Legg Mason and Stifel Nicolaus, co-lead the Obama technology and government innovation transition team, and returned to the government to direct the writing of the United States National Broadband Plan (2009-2010).
Since then, he has split his time advising institutional investors and private companies, serving with various of non-profits, and has been involved with a number of pro bono projects including working with three dozen university communities seeking to obtain next-generation broadband networks, working with the World Bank and UNHCR to create a Global Broadband Plan for Refugees, and working with the National Urban League to produce a Digital Equity and Inclusion Agenda. Barron’s Magazine noted that his work, "has always been on top of developing trends and policy shifts in media and telecommunications … and has proved visionary in getting out in front of many of today's headline-making events." Former FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler also praised his work, noting “no one’s done more to advance broadband expansion and competition through the vision of the National Broadband Plan.”