Robert Pepper leads a team driving Cisco’s global agenda for advanced technology policy in areas such as broadband, IP enabled services, wireless, security, privacy and ICT development.  He joined Cisco in July 2005 from the FCC where he served as Chief of the Office of Plans and Policy and Chief of Policy Development beginning in 1989 where he focused on telecommunications regulation, spectrum policy, and policies promoting the development of the Internet. Before joining government, he held faculty appointments at the Universities of Pennsylvania, Iowa and Indiana, and was a research affiliate at Harvard University. He serves on the board of directors of the U.S. Telecommunications Training Institute (USTTI), advisory boards for Columbia University and Michigan State University, and is a Communications Program Fellow at the Aspen Institute. He is a member of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Spectrum Management Advisory Committee.  Pepper received his BA. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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