Eli Noam

Eli M. Noam (born August 22, 1946) is an American economist and professor at Columbia Business School, where he is the Paul Garrett Chair in Public Policy and Business Responsibility. He is the director of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI). He works on the economics, management, and policy of media and the digital world, including global media ownership and on next-generation "Cloud-TV." He has written over 400 articles and has authored, edited, and co-edited over 30 books.

Education Noam attended Harvard University, where he obtained several degrees, including a Bachelor of Arts in 1970 Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude, a Master of Arts in 1972, a Juris Doctor in 1975, and a Ph.D. in 1975. His dissertation advisors were Martin Feldstein (later Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisors) and Thomas Schelling (later a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics). He was President of the International Media Management Academic Association, 2013–2015. Noam helped to create, and co-taught, the first stand-alone course dedicated to exploring the human rights responsibilities of global business at Columbia Business School in the early 1990s.

Honors Noam has received honorary doctorates from LMU Munich (2006) and Aix-Marseille University (2008).

Other activities Noam was a member of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC), a White House appointment, from 2003 to 2005. He was a regular columnist for the Financial Times online edition. Noam has been a member of advisory boards for the Federal government's telecommunications network, of the IRS computer system modernization, the National Commission on the Status of Women in Computing, the NY Governor's Task Force on New Media, and of the Intek Corporation (UK). He is Chairman of the Nexus Mundi Foundation (telemedicine in Africa), and served on boards of the Oxford Internet Institute, Jones International University (the first accredited online university), the Electronic Privacy Information Center, the Minority Media Council, and on several committees of the National Research Council. He was on the Faculty Steering Committee of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France), the research advisory board of the New York City Police Department (1976-1980), the Mass Media committee of the ACLU (1982-1986), and the Consumer Telecommunications Information Project of the United Church of Christ. He served on scientific advisory boards for the governments of Ireland and Sweden. He is a licensed radio amateur advanced class, and a commercially rated and active pilot. He holds a US patent on a smart packet/e-wallet system.

Personal life Noam is married to Nadine Strossen, the former National President of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). The Technology, Business, and Economics of Streaming Video: The Next Generation of Media Emerges (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021) In Japanese The New Economy, Eli Noam, Thomas Hazlett, Lawrence Lessig, Richard Epstein (2005) Telecommunications Meltdown, co-author (2005)