Gene Kimmelman

Gene Kimmelman is a consumer protection advocate who specializes in competition law and United States antitrust law.

Education

Kimmelman participated in the Fulbright Program and attended the University of Copenhagen. He received his law degree from the University of Virginia. He is a senior fellow at the University of Colorado Law School.

Career

Kimmelman began his public advocacy career as a staff attorney for Public Citizen's Congress Watch. He was an attorney at Consumer Federation of America for ten years. He was chief counsel for two years on the United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights. He served as vice president for Federal and International Affairs at Consumers Union, staying with the organization for more than 30 years. He was lead consumer advocate for the Telecommunications Act of 1996. In 2009 he joined the United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division when Christine A. Varney chose Kimmelman as a senior adviser. While in the Antitrust Division he oversaw and approved the Comcast NBC merger. He also advocated bringing Apple Inc. to court over price fixing of ebooks and was a major player in opposing the attempted purchase of T-Mobile USA by AT&T. On January 15, 2014, Public Knowledge announced that Kimmelman was appointed as their President and Chief Executive Officer.

Kimmelman advocated that cell phone users should proportionally subsidize government communications infrastructure to non-cellphone users, so that services to low-income regions could be improved. He oversaw the merger of Ticketmaster and Livenation.

External links

• biography at the New America Foundation
• talks on C-SPAN