Dorothy Robyn, a principal with The Brattle Group, has 25 years of experience analyzing, implementing, and working to reform federal regulatory and economic policy.  Her recent work has focused on financing of the air traffic control system, competition in international aviation, and market-based allocation of spectrum for telecommunications.

Prior to joining Brattle in 2002, Dr. Robyn was a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution.  From 1993 to 2001, she served as Special Assistant to the President (Clinton) for Economic Policy and senior staff member of the White House National Economic Council, with responsibility for transportation, telecom, aerospace and defense. 

Dr. Robyn was with the Joint Economic Committee of Congress before joining the White House.  From 1983-1987, she was an assistant professor at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.  She is co-author, with William J. Baumol, of a 2006 monograph, Toward an Evolutionary Regime for Spectrum Governance: Licensing or Unrestricted Entry? (Brookings Press); and author of Braking the Special Interests: Trucking Deregulation and the Politics of Policy Reform (University of Chicago Press, 1987).

She received a B.A. from Southern Illinois University, and a master's and a Ph.D. in public policy from the University of California at Berkeley.