Robert J. Shapiro
Dr. Shapiro is the Chairman of Sonecon, LLC, a private firm that advises U.S. and foreign businesses, governments and non-profit organizations. Dr. Shapiro has advised, among others, President Bill Clinton and Prime Minister Tony Blair; private firms including Amgen, AT&T, Google, Gilead Sciences, Exxon-Mobil, MCI, NASDAQ, SLM Corporation, Nordstjernan of Sweden, and Fujitsu of Japan; and non-profit organizations including the American Public Transportation Association, the Education Finance Council, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Progressive Policy Institute, cochair of the Argentina Task Force America, director of the Globalization Initiative of NDN, and a board member of the Axson-Johnson Foundation in Sweden.
From 1997 to 2001, Dr. Shapiro was U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs. In that position, he directed economic policy for the Commerce Department and oversaw the Nation’s major statistical agencies, including the Census Bureau while it planned and carried out the 2000 decennial census. Prior to his appointment as Under Secretary, he was co-founder and Vice President of the Progressive Policy Institute and the Progressive Foundation. He was the principal economic advisor to Governor William Clinton in his 1991-1992 presidential campaign and a senior economic advisor to Vice President Albert Gore and Senator John Kerry in their presidential campaigns. Dr. Shapiro also served as Legislative Director for Senator Daniel P. Moynihan, Associate Editor of U.S. News & World Report, and economic columnist for Slate. He has been a Fellow of Harvard University, the Brookings Institution, the National Bureau of Economic Research, and the Fujitsu Institute. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. from Harvard University, a M.Sc. from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and an A.B. from the University of Chicago.
For more information about Dr. Shapiro and his efforts at Sonecon, please visit www.sonecon.com.
Contributions:
- The Economic Implications of the Restricting Spectrum Purchases in the Incentive Auctions, Robert Shapiro, Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Coleman Bazelon (April 2013)
- Shapiro writes op-ed in Washington Post, August 17, 2012
- Shapiro blogs about possible job creation, May 8, 2012
- Shapiro to discuss economic challenges for the next administration at Carnegie program, March 14, 2012
- Hassett, Mayo, Shapiro to discuss job growth in the wireless economy on Capitol Hill, March 13, 2012
- Shapiro study quoted in Bloomberg News piece on the economic effects of Angry Birds, March 6, 2012
- Shapiro blogs about State of the Union, January 25, 2012
- Shapiro publishes report examining effect of internet advances on jobs, January 23, 2012
- Shapiro ponders the European debt crisis, December 6, 2012
- Shapiro blogs about job creation under Obama, Bush, November 16, 2011
- Shapiro blogs about middle-class appeal of Occupy Wall Street, October 24, 2011
- Shapiro issues report on communication technology and jobs, September 15, 2011
- Shapiro blogs about global economy, challenges to U.S., June 18, 2011
- Shapiro blogs about IMF meetings, raising US debt limit, June 4, 2011
- Shapiro discusses budget, banks, Libya, April 7, 2011
- Shapiro blogs about the Japanese earthquake, U.S. economics, March 24, 2011
- Shapiro blogs on deficits, stimulus, March 3, 2011
- Shapiro blogs about budget, deficit, February 17, 2011
- Shapiro blogs about the economics of Egyptian unrest; testifies before House Judiciary Committee, February 9, 2011
- Shapiro blogs about State of the Union and the real meaning of competitiveness, February 2, 2011
- Shapiro featured on Fox News and Marketplace discussing jobs & debt, January 7, 2011
- Shapiro talks about trade on Marketplace; blogs about taxes, the budget, net neutrality, December 13, 2010
- Shapiro discusses the election on NPR’s Marketplace, November 4, 2010
- Shapiro blogs about IMF meetings, global economy, October 12, 2010
- Shapiro discusses stimulus plan on NPR’s Marketplace, September 6, 2010
- A New Analysis of Broadband Adoption Rates by Minority Households- co-authored with Dr. Kevin Hassett, June 2010 (an academic paper)
- Shapiro examines parallels, differences between Greek and American fiscal problems – May 2010
- How to Regulate the Internet Tap, written with John W. Mayo, Bruce Owen, Marius Schwartz, Lawrence J. White and Glenn Woroch – April 2010, an op-ed in the New York Times
- Benchmarking Policy in a Global Telecommunications Industry: The Case of Net Neutrality, by John W. Mayo, Bruce Owen, Marius Schwartz, Robert Shapiro, Lawrence J. White, and Glenn Woroch – April 2010
- Futurecast: How Superpowers, Populations, and Globalization Will Change the Way You Live and Work, published through St. Martin’s Press – October 2009 (a book available through amazon.com)
- Towards Universal Broadband: Flexible Broadband Pricing and the Digital Divide, written with Dr. Kevin A. Hassett – September 2009 (an academic paper)
- Senior Policy Fellow Robert Shapiro discusses new book, Futurecast – December 2008 (a Georgetown Center hosted symposium)
