Krishna Jayakar is a Professor and co-director of the Institute for Information Policy at Penn State University. He is the author (with Dr. Chun Liu) of Making Policy for the New Information Economy:
Comparing China and India (2023) and numerous journal articles, conference presentations and invited talks on telecommunications policy and media economics.
He is the Co-Editor of the Journal of Information Policy, founded in 2011.
He has received research grants from the National Science Foundation, the Pacific Telecommunications Council, Time Warner Cable, the Free Press Foundation, etc. At Penn State, Dr. Jayakar is the Head of the Department of Telecommunications and Media Industries in the Bellisario College of Communications. He is the faculty coordinator for the Information and Communications Technologies for Development (ICT4D) Consortium, a university-wide group for research and teaching on communications technologies for development. He was the 2020 recipient of the Barry Sherman Award for media economics education from the Media Economics, Management and Entrepreneurship Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications.
Krishna received his undergraduate degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology-BHU, India, and master’s and PhD degrees from Indiana University, Bloomington, USA.
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