Eli Noam

Eli Noam at CITI State of Telecom 2013

Eli M. Noam (born August 22, 1946 in Jerusalem) is a professor of Finance and Economics at the Columbia Business School. He has written over 400 articles and has authored, edited, and co-edited about 25 books. Noam is married to Nadine Strossen, the former National President of ACLU.

Education

Noam attended Harvard University, where he obtained several degrees, including an A.B. 1970 (Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude thesis), an A.M. 1972, a J.D. 1975 and a Ph.D. in Economics 1975. His dissertation advisors were Martin Feldstein and Thomas Schelling.

Military service

Noam served in the Israel Air Force during the Six-Day War in 1967 and the October War in 1973. He also serves with the Civil Air Patrol as a 1st Lt., Mission Pilot for Search and Rescue in the New York Wing, Phoenix Squadron.

Career

Noam began working at Columbia Business School in 1976. He has split his time at the school with a brief stint as Commissioner of the New York Public Service Commission. He has also taught at Columbia Law School, the Princeton University Economics Department, the Woodrow Wilson School (1975–1976), and the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland (1998–2000). Noam returned to the business school in 1990 where he now serves as the Director of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI), a research center at the school. CITI is a university-based research center focusing on strategy, management, and policy issues in telecommunications, computing, and electronic mass media. In addition to leading CITI's research activities, Noam initiated the MBA concentration in the Management of Media, Communications, and Information at the Business School and the Virtual Institute of Information, an independent, web-based research facility. Noam has written approximately 400 articles and 31 books on subjects such as communications, information, public choice, public finance, and general regulation. 1

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