Tim Wu

Who is Tim Wu?

Tim Wu is a professor at Columbia Law School, the former chair of media reform group Free Press, and a regular contributor to the New Yorker. He is also a former Bernard L. Schwartz and Future Tense fellow at The New America Foundation. He is best known for coining the phrase network neutrality in his paper Network Neutrality, Broadband Discrimination, and popularizing the concept thereafter, leading in part to the 2010 passage of a federal Net Neutrality rule. Wu has also made significant contributions to wireless communications policy, most notably with his "Carterfone" proposal.

Wu's academic specialties are copyright and telecommunications policy. For his work in this area, Professor Wu was named one of Scientific American's 50 people of the year in 2006. In 2007 Wu was named one of Harvard University's 100 most influential graduates by 02138 magazine. His book The Master Switch was named among the best books of 2010 by The New Yorker magazine, Fortune magazine, Publishers Weekly, and other publications. Wu was named to National Law Journal's "America's 100 Most Influential Lawyers" in 2013.

From 2011 to 2012, Wu served as a Senior Advisor to the Federal Trade Commission.