Lorenzo Maria PUPILLO is an Executive Director in the Public & Regulatory Affairs Unit of Telecom Italia and Affiliated Researcher at Columbia Institute for Tele-Information. In Telecom Italia, he is in charge of developing  Internet Policy and he is providing policy advising to senior management on technology issues, Next Generation Access Networks and ICT & Energy. He is an economist and has worked in many areas of telecommunications demand and regulatory analysis. He has also been Advisor to the Global Information and Communication Technologies Department of the World Bank in Washington. Before joining Telecom Italia in 1992, he was a member of the technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. Dr. Pupillo also serves on numerous committees for international organizations (Columbia Institute for Tele Information, International Telecommunications Society) and on scientific and advisory boards around the globe (Communications and Strategies, Telecommunications Policy ). He published four books on Internet Policy and about 30 articles on applied econometrics and industrial organization.  He obtained a Ph.D. and an M.A. from University of Pennsylvania, an MBA from Istituto Adriano Olivetti in Ancona Italy and an MS in Mathematics from University of Rome