Phoebe L. Yang
Senior Advisor to the Chairman on Broadband
Federal Communications Commission
Biography: Ms. Yang is Senior Advisor to the Chairman on Broadband at the Federal Communications Commission, where she served as General Counsel of the Omnibus Broadband Initiative in creating Connecting America: The National Broadband Plan. Ms. Yang’s prior experience includes executive roles at Discovery Communications, as Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Development, Vice President of Digital Media Operations and Strategy, and Director of International Business Development; and at AOL Time Warner as Vice President of International Strategy and Policy focused on China. She served under President Bill Clinton as Special Coordinator for China Rule of Law. Earlier in her career, Ms. Yang practiced corporate and commercial law at Hogan & Hartson, LLP and was a law clerk to federal judge, The Honorable William Schwarzer (N.D., California).
Ms. Yang is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and has been a Fellow to Salzburg Seminar, Remarque Institute, and C. S. Lewis Institute; a French-American Foundation Young Leader; and an advisor to the Brookings China Center and Duke Election Law Reform Project. As a Rotary Scholar at the National University of Singapore, she earned certification in Mandarin Chinese. She has served in leadership roles for two Presidential campaigns.
Ms. Yang graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in government and foreign affairs from the University of Virginia. She received her J.D. from Stanford Law School, where she was President and Editor-in-Chief of the Stanford Law Review.