Dorothy Robyn

Dorothy Robyn is a public policy expert who writes and consults on energy, transportation, and telecommunications policy. She is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at Boston University’s Institute for Sustainable Energy. From 2009-2014, Dr. Robyn served in the Obama Administration, first as a Deputy Under Secretary in the Department of Defense with overall management responsibility for U.S. military bases and related energy and environmental issues, and later as head of the U.S. General Services Administration’s Public Buildings Service following a much-publicized scandal at GSA. She spent eight years on the staff of the White House National Economic Council during the Clinton Administration, where she managed issues related to transportation, defense and aerospace, telecom, and science and technology policy. In between the Clinton and Obama Administrations, Dr. Robyn was a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution and then a principal with the Brattle Group, an economic consultancy.  Earlier in her career, she was an assistant professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Dr. Robyn serves on two National Academy of Sciences boards; the World Resources Institute’s Global Leadership Council; and the boards of several non-profit organizations. She is the author of Braking the Special Interests: Trucking Deregulation and the Politics of Policy Reform, and co-author (with William J. Baumol) of Toward an Evolutionary Regime for Spectrum Governance: Licensed or Unrestricted Entry.