Jonathan Sallet

Jonathan Sallet is a former General Counsel of the Federal Communications Commission. Prior to joining the FCC, Jonathan was a partner in O’Melveny’s Washington DC office and a member of the Antitrust and Competition and Integrated Legal Strategies Practices. Jon’s background also includes serving as Chief Policy Counsel of MCI Telecommunications and previous partnerships in two nationally-known law firms. He served in the Clinton Administration as Assistant to the Secretary and Director of the Office of Policy & Strategic Planning of the Department of Commerce, focusing on economic and technology policy. He was a member of the small group of Administration officials who met regularly with Vice President Gore to address the telecommunications issues that became the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and he headed the first White House working group on the deployment of educational technology. Illustrative Professional Experience. He holds a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law.