Jeffrey Westling

Jeffrey Westling serves as a senior scholar of innovation policy at the International Center for Law & Economics. His work focuses on telecommunications policy, particularly reducing barriers to broadband deployment and improving spectrum-management processes.

Before joining ICLE, Westling was director of technology and innovation policy at the American Action Forum. Earlier, he worked at the R Street Institute as a technology and innovation policy fellow and associate.

After law school, he served as a legal fellow at the Federal Communications Commission. During his studies, he worked as a research assistant at the Silicon Flatirons Center at the University of Colorado and held policy and legal internships with the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, the U.S. Department of Energy, AT&T’s federal regulatory office, and Hogan Lovells.

Westling has held public-service appointments, including membership on the Federal Communications Commission’s Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee.