American lawyer, professor at Columbia Law School and opinion contributor to The New York Times. He is an academic expert in the media and technology industries, specializing in antitrust, copyright and telecommunications law. Wu was selected among the "100 Most Influential Lawyers in America" by The National Law Journal in 2013, as well as "Political 50" in 2014 and 2015. He was also named one of the fifty people of the year by Scientific American magazine in 2006 and one of the hundred most influential graduates of Harvard University by 02138 magazine in 2007. His book The Master Switch was named among the best books of 2010 by The New Yorker, Fortune, Publishers Weekly and others. From 2011 to 2012, he was an advisor to the Federal Trade Commission and from 2015 to 2016 he was an advisor to the New York Attorney General's Office, where he initiated a successful lawsuit against Time-Warner Cable for false advertising of its broadband speeds. In 2016, Wu joined the National Economic Council at the Obama administration's White House to work on competition policy. He is a two-time winner of the Lowell Thomas Award for writing about travel and in 2017 was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.