Giulia McHenry
Senior Vice President for Public Policy
AT&T
About Giulia McHenry
McHenry is an expert in the economics of the Internet, telecommunications, and media. She is currently Senior Vice President for Public Policy at AT&T where she leads a team focused on developing AT&T’s positions on federal and state legislation and regulation. In her prior role, McHenry was Chief of the Office of Economics and Analytics at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). She began at FCC in September 2018 and stood up OEA in December 2018. Starting in November 2015, she spent nearly three years as Chief Economist at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). She has advised and written reports on a range of issues, including broadband policy, adoption, and access; the digital economy; and the economics of spectrum and spectrum management. She was particularly focused on incentives to improve spectrum efficiency and effectiveness of federal agencies, methods for defining and measuring the digital economy, and digital adoption and connectivity. Prior to joining NTIA, McHenry was a Senior Associate at The Brattle Group, where she focused on telecommunication matters, prepared expert reports, and coauthored papers related to spectrum management and valuation, broadband deployment, regulatory proceedings, Universal Service Fund, and competition policy.
McHenry received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Maryland in 2009. She specialized in microeconomics, both applied and empirical methods, focusing on network theory and industrial organization. Her dissertation addressed issues related to social networking and entrepreneurship success.