Obama tech adviser Susan Crawford plans departure

White House technology policy adviser, Susan Crawford will leave her position in January to return to the University of Michigan Law School where she is a tenured professor. Crawford has served as a technology policy coordinator for President Obama on the National Economic Council headed by Lawrence H. Summers. In that role she has been President Obama's adviser on the development of broadband Internet networks and a Network Neutrality policy. Crawford left her teaching position at the University of Michigan on a temporary leave to work on Obama's transition from the campaign to government. She was charged during the transition with overseeing Obama's review of the FCC along with University of Pennsylvania professor Kevin Werbach. "Susan has done an outstanding job coordinating technology policy at the National Economic Council where her expertise on issues from intellectual property to the Internet has been invaluable," said a White House spokesman. "We understand that she needs to return to her responsibilities in Ann Arbor, but we will miss having her wise counsel in the White House."