an Academic Fellow at Tel Aviv University's Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, and as a Research Visitor at the University of Melbourne Law School's Centre for Media & Communications Law. In 2000, Brotman was named the first USA Telecommunications Eisenhower Fellow, based in Budapest, Hungary. Public Policy Activities Brotman served two terms as an appointed member of the US Department of State Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy (ACICIP), serving in an advisory capacity concerning major economic, social and legal issues and problems in international communications and information policy. These issues and problems involve users and providers of information and communication services, technology research and development, foreign industrial and regulatory policy, and the activities of international organizations in communications and information. Brotman served on the founding leadership team as Special Assistant to the President's principal communications policy adviser and Chief of Staff at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) in Washington, D.C., with 350 professionals in seven offices. In this capacity, he worked closely with the White House, Congress, the FCC, FTC, the U.S. Department of Justice, other Executive branch departments and independent agencies, and the research and academic community in developing durable models for telecommunications and information convergence. He also had oversight responsibilities for the U.S. Commerce Department's Institute of Telecommunications Sciences, the federal government's R&D facility in Boulder, Colorado, which gave him frequent and extensive exposure to cutting-edge communication technology developments. His work spanned a broad range of concerns, including broadcast, cable television and common carrier regulation and industry structure; home video and information services; public broadcasting; direct broadcast satellites; copyright; antitrust law; new communications technologies and programming sources; and federal and state communications legislation. He also served as NTIA's Project Manager for the four-volume contract research study, ‘’The Emergence of Pay Cable Television’’. Brotman played a critical role in a range of transformative policy initiatives that have significant contemporary impact. He served as Co-Chair of the U.S. task force that recommended the introduction of direct broadcast satellites, and a s a member of the Working Group that developed policies to support the introduction of cellular telephone service in the United States. He served as Chair of the Legal Jurisdiction Subcommittee for the President's Task Force on Electronic Postal Policy, which ultimately persuaded the Executive Branch to foster e-mail as a competitive commercial service rather than as a government monopoly. He also was involved in