Biography
Matt Pearl serves as Director and Special Advisor for Emerging Technologies at the White House National Security Council, where focuses on technology and telecommunications issues, including spectrum policy, Open RAN, 5G, and IoT; global standards setting; cybersecurity of telecom networks; and data security. Immediately before serving at the NSC, Matt was an Associate Bureau Chief at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). At the FCC, he was responsible for managing numerous spectrum transitions, including 3450-3550 MHz, 3.5 GHz/CBRS, 3.7-4.2 GHz (C-Band), and several millimeter waves bands. He also managed many of the Bureau’s nearly two million spectrum licenses. From 2014 until 2020, Matthew was a Research Affiliate at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, where he was part of an effort to advance mesh network technologies, and to evaluate the legal, policy, and technological issues that are raised by the adoption of such networks.
In 2010, Matthew earned a J.D. at Yale Law School, where he served as a submission’s editor for the Yale Journal on Regulation. Before joining the FCC, he worked as a law clerk for Judge Harris Hartz of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Prior to that, he was a law clerk for Judge Lawrence Kahn of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York.