Stuart N. Brotman (born December 5, 1952) is an American government policymaker; management consultant; lawyer; educator; author and editorial adviser; and non-profit organization executive. He is recognized as the private sector’s leading authority on The National Broadband Plan.
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After graduating summa cum laude from Northwestern University, Brotman received his M.A. in Communications from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley (Boalt Hall), where he served as Note and Comment Editor of the California Law Review. During the Carter Administration, Brotman served as Special Assistant to the President’s principal communications policy adviser and Chief of Staff at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA).
Since 1984, Brotman has served as President of Stuart N. Brotman Communications, a global management consulting firm based in Lexington, Massachusetts. As a senior adviser for telecommunications, Internet, media, entertainment and sports clients, he has worked on merger and acquisition projects totaling $150 billion and on litigation matters with over $2 billion in damage claims.
Brotman also served as President and CEO of The Museum of Television & Radio, where he oversaw Museum operations in New York City and Los Angeles and enabled the Museum to make major strides in transition the bicoastal 20th century museum to a 21st century institution with global reach.
He has held faculty appointments in international telecommunications and intellectual property at Boston University School of Law and Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He is Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, where he teaches entertainment and media law and formerly taught telecommunications law.
In 2000, Brotman was named the first USA Telecommunications Eisenhower Fellow.[1]
He currently serves as a Director of the Digital Policy Institute and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Communication Arts Partners, is a member of the New England Steering Committee of the Einsenhower Fellowships, and also on the National Advisory Council of the Northwestern University School of Communication. He is a Mentor of the Arts in Crisis Initiative at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Brotman has served as Chairman of the United States-Israel Science and Technology Foundation and the American Bar Association’s International Communications Law Commuttee. He also has served on the boards of the Boalt Hall Alumni Association, the Museum of Television & Radio, and on the editorial advisory boards of the Journal of Biolaw & Business and the Journal of Science and Technology and Law. He served as a Senior Mentor of the Henry Crown Fellowship Program at The Aspen Institute, and is a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the Cosmos Club, and the National Press Club. He is also is an Honorary member of the China Television Broadcasters Association.
He is listed in Who's Who in America, Who’s Who in American Law, Who's Who in Finance and Industry and Who's Who in the World. He is a recipient of the Northwestern University Alumni Merit Award for distinguished professional achievement and the Distinguished Alumnus Award in Communications from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
He is a member of the State Bar of California, the Bar of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, the American Bar Association and the Federal Communications Bar Association.
Brotman has written over 300 articles and reviews on business, technology, policy, history, negotiation, law, regulation and international trade that have appeared in scholarly and professional publications, including Broadcasting, Business Week, Cable Communications Magazine, Communications Week, Electronic Media, Journal of Communication, Multichannel News, The National Law Journal, Network World, Satellite Communications, Technology Review and Telecommunications; in law reviews published at Berkeley, Boston University, Hastings, Michigan, and UCLA; and in The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor, Indianapolis Star, The Journal of Commerce, The New York Times, U.S. News & World Report and The Washington Post He is the editor of The Telecommunications Deregulation Sourcebook, a popular reference volume covering the broadcasting, cable television and telephone industries; Telephone Company and Cable Television Competition, a pioneering anthology dealing with technical, economic and regulatory aspects of broadband networks; and the author of Broadcasters Can Negotiate Anything, a best-selling management education book for radio and television executives published by the National Association of Broadcasters. He also is the author of Communications Law and Practice, the leading comprehensive treatise covering domestic and international common carrier and mass media regulation.