François BAR Associate Professor Annenberg School for Communication
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François Bar is Associate Professor of Communication
in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern
California. He directs the Annenberg Research Network on International
Communication. Prior to USC, he held faculty positions at Stanford
University and at the University of California at San Diego. Since
1983, he has been a member of the Berkeley Roundtable on the International
Economy (BRIE), at UC Berkeley, where he previously served as program
director for research on telecommunications policy and information
networking. He has held visiting faculty appointments at the University
of Toronto, the University of Paris-XIII, Théséus,
and Eurécom.
He received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley,
studied at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and holds a Diplôme
d'Ingénieur from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées
(ENPC) in Paris. His current research interests include comparative
telecommunication policy, as well as economic, strategic and social
dimensions of computer networking, new media and the Internet. His
research has been published in books of collected studies, in policy
reports, and in such journals as Telecommunications Policy, The
Information Society, Organization Science, Infrastructure Economics
and Policy, Communications & Strategies, Réseaux, and
the International Journal of Technology Management. He currently
serves on the advisory boards of non-profit Compumentor, and start-ups
Clickability and Polaris Wireless.
François Bar is Associate Professor of Communication
in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern
California. He directs the Annenberg Research Network on International
Communication. Prior to USC, he held faculty positions at Stanford
University and at the University of California at San Diego. Since
1983, he has been a member of the Berkeley Roundtable on the International
Economy (BRIE), at UC Berkeley, where he previously served as program
director for research on telecommunications policy and information
networking. He has held visiting faculty appointments at the University
of Toronto, the University of Paris-XIII, Théséus,
and Eurécom.
