Deborah Lathen

Deborah Lathen is President of Lathen Consulting in Washington, DC, where she specializes in providing services to telecommunications and media companies. She also serves as a Non-Executive Director of the Board of Directors of British Telecom. Previously, Ms. Lathen worked at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) as Bureau Chief of the Cable Services Bureau. While there, she provided legal, policy and regulatory advice to the FCC Chairman and Commissioners on cable, broadband, video programming and Internet industries and monitored the impact of regulatory developments on the broadband market. As Chief, she presided over some of the most significant proceedings in the communications industry including the massive AOL/Time-Warner merger and making cable systems accessible to rival Internet service providers; managed the implementation of the Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act (SHVIA); the revision of the horizontal ownership and attribution rules; and a host of rulings pertaining to cable services, video programming and broadband deployment. Before joining the FCC, Ms. Lathen was previously Director National Consumer Affairs and Managing Counsel at Nissan Motor Corporation USA, where she was responsible for the provision of legal services to Nissan and its North American affiliates in the areas of general corporate law, logistics, finance, environmental compliance, and general business matters. She holds a JD from Harvard Law School and a BA from Cornell University. (This is me - Update Profile)