Bio

Bio

Dr. Mark Cooper holds a Ph.D. from Yale University and is a former Yale University and Fulbright Fellow.  He is Director of Research at the Consumer Federation of America where he has responsibility for analysis and advocacy in the areas of telecommunications, media, digital rights, economic and energy policy.  He has provided expert testimony in over 250 cases for public interest clients including Attorneys General, People’s Counsels, and citizen interveners before state and federal agencies, courts and legislators in almost four dozen jurisdictions in the U.S. and Canada.  He is the author of Media Ownership and Democracy in the Digital Information Age (Center for Internet & Society, Stanford University, 2003), Cable Mergers and Monopolies (Electronic download) (Economic Policy institute, 2002, paper),  The Transformation of Egypt (Johns Hopkins, 1982), and Equity and Energy (Westview, 1983).