Tim Wu

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Tim Wu
吳修銘
2014 at Wikipedia Day in New York City
Wu in 2014
Born
Timothy Shiou-Ming Wu

1971 or 1972 (age 52–53)[1]
Washington, D.C., U.S.
EducationMcGill University (BSc)
Harvard University (JD)
Known forcoining "net neutrality"; late 2010s revival of antitrust
Political partyDemocratic
SpouseKate Judge
Children2
RelativesAlan Ming-ta Wu (father)
Gillian Edwards (mother)
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese吳修銘
Simplified Chinese吴修铭
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinWú Xiūmíng
Wade–GilesWu2 Hsiu1-ming2
IPA[ǔ ɕjóʊmǐŋ]
Websitewww.timwu.org Edit this at Wikidata

Timothy Shiou-Ming Wu (born 1971 or 1972) is a Taiwanese-American legal scholar who served as Special Assistant to the President for Technology and Competition Policy at the United States from 2021 to 2023.[2][3][4] He is also a professor of law at Columbia University and a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times. He is known legally and academically for significant contributions to antitrust and communications policy,[5][6] coining the phrase "network neutrality" in his 2003 law journal article, Network Neutrality, Broadband Discrimination.[7][8] In the late 2010s, Wu was a leading advocate for an antitrust lawsuit directed at the breakup of Facebook.[9]

Wu is a scholar of the media and technology industries, and his academic specialties include antitrust, copyright, and telecommunications law. He was named to The National Law Journal's "America's 100 Most Influential Lawyers" in 2013, as well as to the "Politico 50" in 2014 and 2015. Additionally, Wu was named one of Scientific American's 50 people of the year in 2006, and one of Harvard University's 100 most influential graduates by 02138 magazine in 2007.[10] His book The Master Switch was named among the best books of 2010 by The New Yorker magazine,[11] Fortune magazine,[12] and Publishers Weekly.[13]

From 2011 to 2012, Wu served as a senior advisor to the Federal Trade Commission,[14] and from 2015 to 2016 he was senior enforcement counsel at the New York Office of the Attorney General, where he launched a successful lawsuit against Time Warner Cable for falsely advertising their broadband speeds.[15] Wu also served on the National Economic Council in the Obama administration under Jeffrey Zients, and served under Director Brian Deese during the first term of the Biden administration.[4] In the Biden administration, Wu notably helped author the 2021 Executive Order on Competition.[16]

  1. ^ Vilensky, Mike (July 27, 2014). "Ivy League Power Propels Columbia's Tim Wu in Bid to be New York's Lieutenant Governor". Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on November 5, 2018. Retrieved July 27, 2016.
  2. ^ Tracy, Ryan (2021-07-09). "Meet Tim Wu, the Man Behind Biden's Push to Promote Business Competition". The Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2021-07-13.
  3. ^ "Net neutrality advocate Tim Wu joins White House". POLITICO. 18 August 2016. Archived from the original on 27 June 2018. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
  4. ^ a b Kang, Cecilia (March 5, 2021). "A Leading Critic of Big Tech Will Join the White House". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 5, 2021.
  5. ^ Wu, Tim (2007). "Wireless Carterfone". International Journal of Communication: 389–426. Archived from the original on November 26, 2007. Retrieved September 11, 2007.
  6. ^ Ante, Spencer E. (November 8, 2008). "Tim Wu, Freedom Fighter". Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Archived from the original on September 24, 2019. Retrieved September 24, 2019.
  7. ^ Wu, T. (2003). "Network Neutrality, Broadband Discrimination". Journal of Telecommunications and High Technology Law. 2: 141–179. SSRN 388863.
  8. ^ "Tim Wu Elected Board Chair At Free Press". Columbia Law School. Archived from the original on 2016-05-10. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
  9. ^ Lohr, Steve (July 25, 2019). "Chris Hughes Worked to Create Facebook. Now, He Is Working to Break It Up". The New York Times. Retrieved December 9, 2020.
  10. ^ "Tim Wu". OECD Ministerial Meeting on the Future of the Internet Economy, June 2008. Archived from the original on January 18, 2009. Retrieved 10 December 2008.
  11. ^ "A Year's Reading". The New Yorker. December 6, 2010. Archived from the original on July 13, 2019. Retrieved September 24, 2019 – via www.newyorker.com.
  12. ^ Wu, T. (December 22, 2010). "America's Original Startup: The Phone Company". Fortune. Archived from the original on September 24, 2019.
  13. ^ "Best Books of 2010". www.publishersweekly.com. Archived from the original on 11 November 2010. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  14. ^ "Professor Tim Wu Named Advisor to Federal Trade Commission on Consumer Protection, Competition". Columbia Law School. Retrieved 2020-11-27.
  15. ^ Lovett, Kenneth (18 December 2018). "EXCLUSIVE: Charter/Spectrum Cable agrees to record $174M settlement for misleading customers on internet speed: AG's office - NY Daily News". nydailynews.com. Archived from the original on 27 December 2018. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
  16. ^ Cassidy, John (2021-07-12). "The Biden Antitrust Revolution". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2022-11-14.