The Federal Communications Commission (“FCC” or the “Commission”) Chairman Ajit Pai announced that he intends to appoint Donald Stockdale to serve as chief of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau. Stockdale is an economist and attorney with extensive FCC and private-sector experience.
Stockdale rejoins the Commission from Bates White Economic Consulting, where he has been a partner. Prior to that, he worked on telecom regulatory and antitrust issues as a partner at Mayer Brown, LLP. He first joined the FCC in 1994 as an attorney advisor and later as deputy division chief and associate bureau chief for economics and the then-Common Carrier Bureau.
Nese Guendelsberger, who has served as acting bureau chief, will work along side Stockdale as his senior deputy bureau chief. James Schlichting, the current senior deputy bureau chief, will be appointed to the same position in the International Bureau.
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