Glenn A. Woroch, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor of Economics
Executive Director,
Center for Research in Telecommunications Policy (CRTP)
University of California, Berkeley
Dr.Woroch was one of the founding members of the ITS Board of Directors. He was also a member of the local organizing committee for the biennial conference in Cambridge, MA in 1988, and a member of the program committee for the Cannes meeting in 1992. He was the chair of the original Journal Committee and remains a member of the Publications Committee today. Working with other Committee members, he forged the original partnership with North-Holland Publishing and its journal, Information Economics & Policy.
Dr.Woroch received his B.A. in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his M.A. in statistics and Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley. Before assuming his current position at Berkeley, he taught at the University of Rochester and Stanford University and was a senior member of the technical staff of GTE Laboratories.
Dr.Woroch has published numerous articles in the fields of industrial organization, antitrust and regulation in scholarly journals including the Rand Journal of Economics, the International Journal of Industrial Organization, the Review of Industrial Organization, Telecommunications Policy, and the Antitrust Bulletin. He recently published a chapter on local network competition in the Handbook of Telecommunications Economics. He has served on the editorial boards of Information Economics & Policy and the Journal of Regulatory Economics.
As Executive Director of the Center for Research on Telecommunications Policy (groups.haas.berkeley.edu/imio/crtp/), Dr.Woroch organizes workshops and conferences on various topics in telecommunications policy and strategy and oversees the funding of on-campus research projects in these fields. Dr.Woroch’s own research focuses on theoretical and empirical investigations of competition in and regulation of network industries, with particular application to the telecommunications and computer sectors. His research also examines antitrust policy toward intellectual property protection and various business practices.
Dr.Woroch has been an economic advisor to government agencies including the U.S. Departments of Energy and Justice and the Office of Technology Assessment. He is a Principal of The Brattle Group (www.brattle.com), an economic consulting company, on behalf of which he advises private-sector clients and provides expert testimony on matters involving monopolization claims, mergers, intellectual property infringement, and economic damages.
Dr.Woroch makes his home in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and son.When not teaching at Berkeley and managing CRTP, he enjoys biking, running and skiing, as well as cooking and wine tasting.
