Michael Powell to Join Aspen Institute

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Subject: Michael Powell to Join Aspen Institute

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: James Spiegelman
Director of Communications
The Aspen Institute
Tel. 202-736-3849

FCC CHAIRMAN MICHAEL K. POWELL TO JOIN ASPEN INSTITUTE


Washington, DC, March 11, 2005˜The Aspen Institute
announced today that Michael K. Powell, outgoing
chairman of the Federal Communications Commission
(FCC), is to become senior fellow of the Aspen
Institute Communications and Society Program for a
three-month period effective upon his departure from
the FCC. Powell, who was honored last year by the
Institute with the Henry Crown Leadership Award, is
the third consecutive FCC Chairman to join the Aspen
Institute following his chairmanship. He will advise
the Communications and Society Program on leadership,
communications policy, and program activities and
operations. Judith Mann will also move from the FCC to
the Institute as Powell‚s confidential assistant.

„Michael Powell exemplifies the type of leader that
the Aspen Institute seeks to attract to our various
program and leadership activities,‰ said Walter
Isaacson, President and CEO of the Aspen Institute in
announcing the appointment.  „He will add an important
perspective to planning our non-partisan forums in
communications and information policy ˆ and beyond.‰

Shortly after announcing his departure from the FCC,
Powell noted: „The Aspen Institute has been an
important part of my life, both in its influential
communications policy work and in the Crown leadership
program.  I look forward to serving as an adviser to
this distinguished organization.  I am also grateful
for the opportunity to take some time to think about
the future.‰

Charles M. Firestone, executive director of the
Institute‚s Communications and Society Program,
welcomed Powell‚s appointment: „Michael Powell has
been an excellent participant in Aspen Institute
forums for many years, both as commissioner and as
chairman of the FCC.  We are fortunate to have the
benefit of his advice and insights in developing new
activities and in reinvigorating our ongoing
projects.‰

Mr. Powell can be reached through his confidential
assistant, Judy Mann at judy.mann () aspeninstitute org
or 202-736-1492.

The Aspen Institute Communications and Society
Program, one of 18 policy programs at the Institute,
convenes non-partisan roundtable forums for leaders
and experts to address the foremost policy challenges
facing societies around the world as a result of the
communications and information revolutions. Through
its forum activities and reports, it develops new
models and options for policies in the
telecommunications, new media, and Internet worlds.
It is also a venue where veteran and emerging
decision-makers from government, business, media,
labor, consumer and the non-profit sectors can explore
new concepts, find personal growth and insight, and
develop new, diverse networks for the betterment of
the policymaking process and society.  The program is
based in the Institute‚s Washington, DC office.

Ongoing activities of the Communications and Society
Program include a CEO-level Forum on Communications
and Society, the annual Aspen Conference on
Telecommunications Policy, the Roundtable on Spectrum
Policy, the Aspen Institute Roundtable on Information
Technology, and a number of conferences on journalism
and freedom of expression.

The Aspen Institute, founded in 1950, is an
international nonprofit dedicated to fostering
enlightened leadership and open-minded dialogue.
Through seminars, policy programs, conferences and
leadership development initiatives, the Institute and
its international partners seek to promote nonpartisan
inquiry and an appreciation for timeless values. The
Institute is headquartered in Washington, D.C., and
has campuses in Aspen, Colorado, and on the Wye River
on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Its international network
includes partner Aspen Institutes in Berlin, Rome,
Lyon, Tokyo, and New Delhi, and leadership programs in
Africa and Central America.

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