Technology, telecommunications expert Sascha Meinrath named Palmer Chair at Penn State

Sascha Meinrath, a renowned technology and telecommunications policy expert who has been honored as one of the most influential minds in technology by Time Magazine, was named the Palmer Chair in Telecommunications at Penn State. Meinrath, director of X-Lab and well known for his work in a variety of roles -- building distributed communications broadbands networks, as a policy expert who has advised numerous congressmen as well as White House and Federal Communications Commission staff, as a social entrepreneur and as an angel investor -- joins the University as a professor holding the named chair in the College of Communications.

Prior to founding X-Lab, a technology and policy innovation project, Meinrath was vice president of the New America Foundation, where he founded the Open Technology Institute in 2008 and built it into the leading public interest “tech tank” in Washington, DC. He is an Ashoka Fellow and has been named as one of the “TIME Tech 40” as one of the most influential figures in technology, to the “Top 100” in Newsweek's Digital Power Index, and as a recipient of the Public Knowledge IP3 Award for excellence in public interest advocacy.