Executive Director
Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program

Since Charles' appointment in December 1989, the Aspen Institute's Communications and Society Program has focused on the impact of new technologies on democratic, economic and social institutions, the development of new communications policy models and options for the public interest, and the implications of communications and information technologies for leadership. For three years Charles Firestone was also the Institute's Executive Vice President for Policy Programs and International Activities.

Charles Firestone is the editor, author or co-author of several books and numerous articles on communications law and policy. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a GLOCOM Fellow of the Japanese Institute of Global Communications in Tokyo, Japan, and was a Visiting Professor at the Duke University Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy in 2003.

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