Mr. Steven Rivkin is a telecommunications lawyer in Washington, D.C. who advises electric utilities, telecom providers, and the U.S. Department of Energy concerning common opportunities in telecommunications and energy.

He has authored five books and numerous articles in legal, economic, and popular publications. Two recent monographs have achieved wide attention -— Short-Cut to the Information Superhighway: A Progressive Plan to Speed the Telecommunications Revolution co-authored with Jeremy Rosner for the Progressive Policy Institute of the Democratic Leadership Council (1992) and Positioning the Electric Utility to Build Information Infrastructure for the U.S. Department of Energy (1995). He is a frequent speaker at national meetings concerning the growing interdependence of telecommunications and energy.

Mr. Rivkin was a member of the White House staff during the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations and is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School.