Eli Noam is Professor of Economics and the Garrett Professor of Public Policy and Business Responsibility, emerit. He serves as the Director of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, a research center focusing on management and policy issues in communications, internet, and media. Noam has published over 350 articles and 37 books, most recently including Managing Media and Digital Organizations (Palgrave, 1.9 million downloads 2021); Media and Digital Management (Palgrave, 1.8 million downloads 2021); The Technology, Business, and Economics of Streaming Video (Elgar 2021); the award-winning books Who Owns the World’s Media (Oxford 2016) and The Content, Impact, and Regulation of Streaming Video (Elgar 2021); and the forthcoming Video 2040: Into the Next Generation of Media (Elgar 2025).
Noam was a regular columnist on Financial Times online. He served as Commissioner of Public Services for New York State, on the White House’s Presidential IT Advisory Board, and on governmental boards in Ireland and Sweden. He was President of the International Media Management Academic Association. Noam has been a Fellow of the World Economic Forum, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a commercially related pilot. Noam received the degrees of AB, AM, Ph.D (Economics) and JD from Harvard University, and honorary doctorates from the University of Munich and the University of Marseilles Aix-la-Provence.
