Blair Levin

Blair Levin is a policy analyst with New Street Research, an equity research firm focused on telecommunications and technology, and is also a nonresident senior fellow at Brookings Metro. Levin has also been involved in a number of efforts to broaden broadband’s reach and effectiveness, including serving as the executive director of Gig.U: The Next Generation Network Innovation Project, an initiative of three dozen leading research university communities seeking to support educational and economic development by accelerating the deployment of next-generation networks; leading the writing of a report for the World Bank and United Nations High Commission on Refugees on broadband for refugees; and, most recently, working with the National Urban League to write the Lewis Latimer Plan for Digital Equity and Inclusion. Previously, Levin worked with the Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program, following his departure in 2010 from the Federal Communications Commission, where he oversaw the development of a national broadband plan. Levin rejoined the commission in 2009, after eight years as a policy analyst at Legg Mason and Stifel Nicolaus. As Barron’s noted, Levin “has always been on top of developing trends and policy shifts in media and telecommunications . . . and has proved visionary in getting out in front of many of today’s headline-making events.” He has written for numerous publications, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Harvard Business Review, and MIT Sloan Management Review.