NEWS                                                                         March 13, 1997
   
   PETER COWHEY TO BE NAMED ACTING 
                 INTERNATIONAL BUREAU CHIEF
                        
        Peter Cowhey will be named Acting Chief of the International Bureau and will assume
the post when the current Chief, Donald Gips, leaves the FCC, as recently announced.    

     Cowhey joined the International Bureau in 1994 as Chief of the Multilateral and
Development Affairs Branch.  In 1995 he became Senior Counselor for Economic and
Competition Policy in the International Bureau and stepped down as Branch Chief in 1996. 
As Senior Counselor, Cowhey advised the Bureau Chiefs and FCC Commissioners on
competition policy involving international services, including the development of benchmarks
for accounting rates.  He also supervised the Commission's work in support of U.S.
Government negotiations on international trade and regulatory policies involving the
telecommunications industries.  He has been a member of the U.S. delegations to the WTO,
OECD, APEC, and the G-7 Information Society Ministerials.  

     Cowhey is on leave from his professorship at the Graduate School of International
Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego.  He received his
undergraduate degree at Georgetown University and his Ph.D. at the University of California,
Berkeley.  He has taught, published and consulted widely on international trade, investment
and regulatory policies. 

     His research on the international telecommunications industry has been supported by
such organizations as the Council on Foreign Relations, the Rockefeller Foundation, the
Brookings Institution, the American Enterprise Institute, and the Twentieth Century Fund.   

     "I am pleased that Peter has agreed to be Chief of the International Bureau," said
Chairman Hundt. "Peter's expertise in international competition policy will be invaluable in
evaluating and advising Commissioners on many of the issues facing the FCC."

     He is married to Margaret McKeown, an attorney.  Their daughter, Megan Cowhey, is
in third grade.
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