Davis Polk announced Thursday that antitrust expert and Georgetown law professor Howard Shelanski is joining the firm's Washington office.
Shelanski recently was deputy director of the Federal Trade Commission's bureau of economics, in charge of the bureau's antitrust portfolio. Before that he was a professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley, where he co-directed the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology from 2000 to 2008.
Shelanski also was chief economist of the Federal Communications Commission and served on the president's Council of Economic Advisers during the Clinton administration.









