Robert Pitofsky Biography

Chairman, Federal Trade Commission.  Pennsylvania Ave. and 6th Street, Washington, DC.  202-326-2100.

Robert Pitofsky was sworn in as Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission on April 12, 1995.

At the time he was nominated by President Clinton to chair the FTC, Pitofsky was a Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center and Of Counsel to the Washington, DC law firm of Arnold & Porter. He also has held the positions of Commissioner (1978-1981) and Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection (1970-1973) at the FTC.

Pitofsky chaired the Defense Science Board Task Force on Antitrust Aspects of Defense Industry Downsizing in 1994, has been a member of the Council of the Administrative Conference, the Board of Governors of the DC Bar Association, and the Council of the Antitrust Section of the American Bar Association. In addition, he has been Dean of the Georgetown University Law Center, a professor at New York University School of Law and Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.

Pitofsky's publications include legal casebooks on both trade regulation and antitrust law. He received a bachelor of arts degree from New York University and an L.L.B. from Columbia School of Law.

Selected Statements, Speeches, and Letters.

• "Consumer Privacy on the World Wide Web," prepared statement delivered to the House Commerce Committee, Telecommunications Subcommittee, hearing on Internet privacy.  7/21/98.
• Comments at White House press conference on Clinton-Gore administration privacy policy initiatives.  7/31/98.
• Speech on international antitrust enforcement to the European Institute's Eighth Annual Transatlantic Seminar on Trade and Investment, in Washington, DC.  11/4/98.  (Link to FTC website.)
• Speech to Federalist Society Convention on application of antitrust law to high tech.  11/14/98.
• Letter to Tech Law Journal regarding story published on November 15, 1998.  11/27/98.