Thierer Named PFF President

The Progress & Freedom Foundation announced that Adam Thierer, longtime PFF Senior Fellow and Director of PFF's Center for Digital Media Freedom, has been appointed president of the Foundation. He succeeds Ken Ferree, who will remain active as a Senior Fellow and as a member of PFF's Board of Directors. Thierer said he plans to push "forward with our vision of defending individual liberty, free markets, freedom of speech, and property rights." Thierer formally joined PFF in 2005 but has been involved with PFFs since its creation. In 1995, he was a co-author of PFF's first major book, The Telecom Revolution - An American Opportunity. He is the author or editor of seven books on, and regularly writes about content regulation and child safety, the regulation of mass media and network industries, Internet governance, intellectual property, and federalism in high-tech markets. Thierer earned his B.A. in journalism and political science at Indiana University, and his M.A. in international business management and trade theory at the University of Maryland.