Mark Nadel was an attorney/advisor at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from 1990 to 2024.  At the FCC, he was in charge of designing the original rules for the FCC’S “E-rate” program, which provides some $4 billion annually in discounts to schools and libraries for securing Internet access.  He also worked for two years at the former Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) on reports covering high-definition television, copyright, as well as a 1987 overall review of the future of communications technology and policy.  Prior to that, he assisted Eli Noam at the Columbia Business School Institute for Tele-Information.

Nadel has published articles in law reviews – including those at Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and Berkeley – and op-eds in the Wall Street Journal.  Most recently, he has written about the obstacles to price competition among residential real estate brokers and how to overcome them.  He has also proposed five new ideas for improving the economics of producing local journalism and is working on expanding those ideas.

Nadel has taught courses at several university law schools — those of Catholic, Yeshiva, and NYU – as well as the New School for Social Research.  He majored in economics and political science at Amherst College and is a graduate of Harvard Law School.