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PRESS RELEASE
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FTC commissioner and former chairman William E. Kovacic to address 2009 Chicago-Kent graduates
CHICAGO--February 20, 2009--William E. Kovacic, immediate past-chairman and a current commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), will deliver the commencement address at Chicago-Kent College of Law's 2009 ceremonies on Sunday, May 17, at 3 p.m. Commencement will be held in the Arie Crown Theater at McCormick Place's Lakeside Center, 2301 S. Lake Shore Drive, in Chicago.
[Visit the 2009 Commencement Web site.]
FTC commissioner William E. Kovacic
Kovacic has served as an FTC commissioner since January 2006, following his nomination by President George W. Bush to a seven-year term and confirmation by the U.S. Senate. In March 2008, President Bush named him FTC chairman. He served as chairman until March 2009.
Kovacic has held three previous positions with the FTC. Between 1979 and 1983, he worked with the Bureau of Competition's Planning Office and later served as an attorney-adviser to former FTC commissioner George W. Douglas. He was the FTC's general counsel from 2001 through the end of 2004.
An expert in both antitrust law and government contracts law, Kovacic has published extensively in both fields. Prior to his current position with the FTC, Kovacic spent eight years as the E.K. Gubin Professor of Government Contracts Law at George Washington University Law School. From 1986 to 1999, he was the George Mason University Foundation Professor at the George Mason University School of Law, where he taught antitrust law, contracts, government contracts, and a seminar in comparative government procurement law.
Kovacic is a past chair of the Antitrust and Economic Regulation Committee of the Association of American Law Schools. He is a co-author, with Andrew I. Gavil and Jonathan B. Baker, of Antitrust Law in Perspective: Cases, Concepts and Problems in Competition Policy (Thomson West 2002) and is a co-author, with Ernest Gellhorn and Stephen Calkins, of the fifth edition of Antitrust Law and Economics in a Nutshell (Thomson West 2004).
Earlier in his career, Kovacic served as a member of the majority staff of the Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary chaired by the late Senator Philip A. Hart (D-Mich). Since 1992, Kovacic has served as an adviser on antitrust and consumer protection issues to the governments of Armenia, Benin, Egypt, El Salvador, Georgia, Guyana, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, Panama, Russia, Ukraine, Vietnam and Zimbabwe.
Kovacic completed his undergraduate education at Princeton University in 1974 and earned his J.D. from Columbia University in 1978. Following graduation from law school, he clerked for the Honorable Roszel C. Thomsen, U.S. District Judge for the District of Maryland.
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