Larry Irving
Clarence "Larry" Irving Jr. (born July 7, 1955) is an American lawyer and technology policy expert. He was Hewlett-Packard’s Vice President of Global Government Affairs from 2009 to 2011. He now leads the Irving Information Group in Washington, D.C., a telecom and IT strategy firm he started in 1999.
From 1993 to 1999, Irving headed the National Telecommunications Infrastructure Administration (NTIA), part of the U.S. Department of Commerce. There he advised the President on telecom policy to grow the economy and improve technology access. He helped shape Clinton’s telecom, internet, and e-commerce initiatives and served as a senior adviser to President Clinton, Vice President Gore, and the Commerce Secretary. He also worked on the Clinton-Gore transition team.
Earlier, he was Senior Counsel for the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance, where he helped draft major laws like the Cable Television Consumer Protection Act, the Children's Television Act, and the Television Decoder Circuitry Act. He also worked for Congressman Mickey Leland and was active with the Congressional Black Caucus. He was a lawyer at Hogan & Hartson.
As NTIA head, he wrote reports called Falling Through the Net about inequities in access to information technology and helped highlight the digital divide.
Irving serves on boards and as an adviser to many groups, including Internews, ReliabilityFirst, Waggener Edstrom, the Education Development Center, Annenberg School at USC, Stanford Law School, and Northwestern University’s Weinberg College.
He has received several honors, including being named one of Newsweek’s 50 most influential people in the year of the Internet (1994) and induction into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2019.
Education: Northwestern University, BA (1976); Stanford University, JD (class president).
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