About Me

John C. Wohlstetter has been a Senior Fellow for Technology and Society at the Seattle-based Discovery Institute < http://www.discovery.org > since April 2001. He is a Washington, DC attorney who had a 22-year corporate career in telecommunications that included corporate law, communications law and strategic assessment, with Contel Corporation (1978-1991), GTE Corporation (1991-2000) and Verizon Communications (2000) before taking early retirement in 2000.

In 1989 he was Senior Adviser for a report commissioned by the Department of Defense: "Growing Vulnerability of the Public-Switched Networks: Implications for National Security Emergency Preparedness," a study issued by the National Research Council, operating arm of the National Academy of Sciences. From 1969 to 1973 he was in Wall Street, with Goldman Sachs (1969-73) and Drexel Burnham Lambert (1973-74), specializing in international securities arbitrage.

He has degrees from the University of Miami (1969: B.B.A., Finance), Fordham Unviersity School of Law (1977: J.D.) and The George Washington University (1985: M.A. Public Policy, concentration: Telecommunications).

He publishes an online newsletter, "Bandwidth," for Discovery < http://www.discovery.org/bandwidth >, focusing on telecommunications and also on national security implications of information technology. He has published online and in print for The American Spectator, and also for National Review Online, on subjects ranging from telecommunications to space policy and national security.

A lifelong classical and jazz pianist, he serves on two arts boards as a director (the National Symphony Orchestra and the Washington Bach Consort), and is a trustee of two other non-profits, the Hudson Institute and the National Foundation for Facial Reconstruction.