Michael R. Gardner is a communications policy lawyer in Washington, D.C. He also serves as the pro bono Chairman of the United States Telecommunications Training Institute (USTTI), a non-profit international training initiative, which he founded in 1982 while serving as the U.S. Ambassador to the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference in Nairobi, Kenya. To date, the USTTI has graduated 7,958 women and men who are currently managing the communications systems in 166 developing countries. Mr. Gardner lectured for eight years as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. where he taught a course on the Modern American Presidency. His book, Harry Truman and Civil Rights: Moral Courage and Political Risks, was awarded the Henry Adams Prize for 2003 by the Society for History in the Federal Government. He served on the President’s Committee on Mental Retardation under Presidents Nixon and Ford. Mr. Gardner is a 1964 graduate of the College at Georgetown University and a 1977 graduate of the Georgetown University Law School.

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