Mickey Gardner is a Senior Advisor to M2Z Networks. Mr. Gardner is a communications policy attorney specializing in new technologies, programming, broadcasting, and wireless telephony before the Federal Communications Commission, the Congress and agencies of the Federal Government. Mr. Gardner was previously a partner the firms of Akin Gump & Bracewell and Patterson. Since 1982, Mr. Gardner also has served as the pro bono Chairman of the United States Telecommunications Training Institute, a non-profit international training initiative which he founded in 1982 while serving as the U.S. Ambassador to the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference in Nairobi, Kenya. Mr. Gardner has been active in national communications policy making for more than 30 years. He served as Chairman of President-elect Reagan's FCC Transition Team in 1980 and 1981, as Vice Chair of the FCC's Advisory Committee on Alternative Financing for Minorities, and on four Presidential Commissions. Mr. Gardner is a 1964 graduate of the College at Georgetown University and a 1977 graduate of the Georgetown University Law School. Mr. Gardner was an adjunct professor at Georgetown University from 1992-2000, where he taught courses on a range of topics, including communications public policy. Mr. Gardner has served with countless boards and organizations, including:Board of Trustees of the National Home Library Foundation of Washington, D.C U.S. State Department Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy Dean's Advisory Board of UCLA School of Public Health Board of Trustees of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception Chairman of the Dean's Board of Advisors at the College of Georgetown University Member of the U.S. Delegation to the G7-ISAD Conference in Johannesburg, South Africa Board of Television Telecommunications Advisory Committee of USIA National Board of Directors of Christmas in April Board of Trustees of Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland. Vice Chair of the FCC's Advisory Committee on Alternative Financing for Minorities, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Baker's Scholars Program at Georgetown University. |