Dan O'Connor
Senior Director, Public Policy & Government Affairs
Dan O'Connor is the Senior Director for Public Policy &
Government Affairs at the Computer & Communications Industry Association,
where he works with government and industry leaders on competition,
intellectual property, international trade and global Internet
policy. He also leads CCIA’s efforts on antitrust policy and monitors
the business and technological developments in high-tech markets. He has worked
government relations and media outreach for several high-profile antitrust
cases in both the United States and Europe. Before assuming his current position he was Director of
Competition & Telecommunications Policy and the Deputy Director of
Government Affairs at CCIA. Before joining CCIA he served as a Legislative Aide in the
New York State Assembly and also was a member of a NIH funded research team
that studied Pharmaceutical and Tobacco Advertising. Mr. O'Connor received a Master’s Degree in International
Political Economy from the London School of Economics, where he received
high-merit on his dissertation on the framing of Internet censorship as a
barrier to trade. He received a B.S.
in Policy Analysis and Management with a concentration in Consumer Economics from
Cornell University where he was a Dean's Scholar.
