Senior Vice President - Public Policy and Chief Privacy Officer
AT&T Services, Inc.

Dorothy Attwood is the Senior Vice President - Public Policy and the Chief Privacy Officer for AT&T Services, Inc. A respected communications policy expert, Attwood leads the development and implementation of AT&T's strategic international, national, federal and state public policy initiatives across all AT&T lines of business - including wireless, internet, video and wireline services - in the increasingly fast-paced, converging and dynamic communications marketplace. As Chief Privacy Officer, Attwood has oversight responsibility for the development and implementation of enterprise-wide policies governing the privacy of customer information. Attwood regularly speaks at key communications-related events, and actively contributes in academic, think-tank and industry policy forums.

Prior to joining the company in November of 2002, Attwood spent six years at the Federal Communications Commission in a variety of senior policy-making positions, advising Chairmen in both Democratic and Republican administrations. Attwood was the Senior Legal Advisor to Chairman William Kennard on all common carrier, enforcement and consumer matters, and served as chief of the Federal Communications Commission's Wireline Competition Bureau under both Chairman Kennard and Chairman Michael Powell. She also served as chief of the Enforcement Division of the Common Carrier Bureau. During her tenure as a senior manager at the agency, Attwood played a major role in implementing the Telecommunications Act of 1996, including advancing the FCC's competition, Internet, universal service and consumer policies. She also managed the reorganization of the agency to reflect the new competitive communications marketplace and align the agency structure with its core functions, resulting in the transformation of the old Common Carrier Bureau to the Wireline Competition Bureau, creation of the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau and the Enforcement Bureau.

Attwood received her bachelor's degree from Brown University, a Master's Degree from The Wharton School and her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She graduated Magna Cum Laude and Order of the Coif from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

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