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William Evan Kovacic is the Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission. Kovacic was sworn in as a Commissioner of the FTC in January 2006. Following his nomination by the President and confirmation by the U.S. Senate, he was designated as Chairman on March 30, 2008, .1 He replaces Deborah Platt Majoras.2
Early years
Kovacic's father worked for the Department of Energy in Washington as a chemical engineer. Kovacic graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University in 1974, and received his J.D. from Columbia University in 1978 where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.3
Career
Prior to his appointment as Commissioner, Kovacic was the E.K. Gubin Professor of Government Contracts Law at George Washington University Law School, where he began teaching in 1999. He previously taught antitrust law at George Mason University.4 He was the FTC’s General Counsel from 2001 through the end of 2004. Kovacic earlier worked at the Commission from 1979 to 1983, first with the Bureau of Competition’s Planning Office and later as an attorney advisor to former Commissioner George W. Douglas. After leaving the FTC in 1983, Kovacic was an associate with the Washington, DC, office of Bryan Cave, where he practiced in the firm’s antitrust and government contracts departments, until joining the George Mason University School of Law in 1986. Earlier in his career, he spent one year on the majority staff of the Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, which was chaired by Senator Philip A. Hart.
Since 1992, Kovacic has served as an adviser on antitrust and consumer protection issues to the governments of Armenia, Benin, Egypt, El Salvador, Georgia, Guyana, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, Panama, Russia, Ukraine, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe.
He lives in Virginia, with his wife, Kathryn Fenton, an antitrust attorney.
References
- ^ Federal Trade Commission - Commissioners
- ^ "White House taps commissioner William Kovacic to chair FTC", The Mercury News (2008-03-26). Retrieved on 18 June 2008.
- ^ "KATHRYN FENTON WEDS WILLIAM EVAN KOVACI", The New York Times (1985-05-19). Retrieved on 18 June 2008.
- ^ Rowley, James; Runningen, Roger (2008-03-26). "Kovacic Named by Bush to Lead Federal Trade Agency", Bloomberg L.P.. Retrieved on 18 June 2008.
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