Mark Jamison

Mark Jamison is director and Gerald Gunter Professor of the Public Utility Research Center and director of the Digital Markets Initiative at the University of Florida. He is also a research associate with the University of Florida Center for Public Policy Research and a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

His research focuses on competition policy, regulation of information technologies and utilities, institutional development in regulation, and competition and innovation in network industries, with particular attention to the interaction between business strategy and government policy.

Jamison has held multiple leadership roles at the University of Florida, including director of telecommunications studies and associate director of business and economic studies at the Center for International Business Education and Research. He also served as a special academic advisor to the chair of the Florida governor’s Internet Task Force and as president of the Transportation and Public Utilities Group.

Before entering academia, he was manager of regulatory policy at Sprint. Earlier, he was head of research at the Iowa Utilities Board and a communications economist at the Kansas Corporation Commission. He also worked as a field manager for a university farm-management association and as a high-school teacher.

He served on a U.S. presidential transition team focusing on the Federal Communications Commission and has led training and research programs for regulators and policymakers across numerous countries.

Jamison is the author or co-author of “Industry Structure and Pricing: The New Rivalry in Infrastructure,” “Infrastructure Regulation and Market Reform: Principles and Practice,” and “Universal Service for Schools and Libraries: A Handbook for Planning and Funding Technology.”

His honors include the University of Florida International Educator of the Year Award and a Future Lifetime Achievement Award recognizing contributions to sustainability and policy research.

He earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Florida, a master’s in agricultural economics from Kansas State University, and a bachelor’s from Kansas State University.