Robert G. Picard, Ph.D.
		Robert G. Picard is one of the world's leading academic experts on media economics and management and government communications policies. He is a Hamrin Professor of Media Economics and director of the Media Management and Transformation Centre, Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping University, Sweden.  He is also on the faculty of the Institute of Media and Entertainment in New York and the School of Media Management at Communication University of China (Bejing). He is the author and editor of 22 books including Media Product Portfolios: Issues in Managing Multiple Products and Services (Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers), The Economics and Financing of Media Companies (Fordham University Press), Media Firms: Structures, Operations and Performance (Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers), The Internet and the Mass Media (Sage), The Newspaper Publishing Industry (Allyn & Bacon), Media Economics: Concepts and Issues (Sage), Press Concentration and Monopoly: New Perspectives on Newspaper Ownership and Operation (Ablex), and Joint Operating Agreements: The Newspaper Preservation Act and Its Application (Ablex). He has written hundred of articles on media issues for publications scholarly journals and industry publication. Picard is editor of the Journal of Media Business Studies and was editor of The Journal of Media Economics for more than a decade. He serves on the editorial boards of numerous other journals. Picard received his Ph.D. at the University of Missouri, after completing an M.A. at California State University, Fullerton, and a B.A. at Loma Linda University. He was a fellow at the Shorenstein Center at Harvard University. He has been a consultant for government agencies and ministries in North America and Europe, international agencies, investment firms, and numerous media companies and media labor organizations. Picard has testified before congressional and parliamentary committees and inquiry boards and provided expert testimony in cases involving antitrust and anticartel issues. He regularly makes presentations to media trade organizations and university groups worldwide. He is included in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World and Who's Who in Education and numerous other biographical indexes He is regularly interviewed by media on issues of media industry developments. His comments have appeared in  publications as New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Le Monde, The Times, Neue Zurcher Zeitung, Fortune, and  Business Week, as well as trade and professional publications worldwide.