Anthony G. Wilhelm, Ph.D.

Anthony G. Wilhelm, Chief of Staff (Acting), National Telecommunications and Information Administration, Department of Commerce

Tony Wilhelm is the Chief of Staff (Acting) of the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration. Wilhelm provides managerial and policy support for a wide range of agency activities, including Internet policy, spectrum, and broadband programs. 

Formerly, Dr. Wilhelm was the senior executive in charge of NTIA’s Recovery Act broadband grant programs and, before that, led the successful conversion of America’s television sets from analog to digital as one of the directors of the TV Converter Box Coupon Program.  Dr. Wilhelm has been an executive in private philanthropy, including as vice president for programs at the Benton Foundation.

He earned his Ph.D. in public policy from the Claremont Graduate University’s School for Politics and Economics in Claremont, California.