Ajit Varadaraj Pai was born January 10, 1973, in Buffalo, New York. He graduated from Harvard in 1994 with an A. B. in social studies with honors. He then went to the University of Chicago Law School, where he won a Mulroy Prize for excellence in evidence law. He worked as a lawyer in various offices of the U. S. Department of Justice and the U Senate Judiciary Committee, with a two-year stint as an in-house lawyer for Verizon Communications. He was nominated to be a commissioner in 2011 by President Barack Obama, who followed tradition in preserving balance on the commission by accepting the recommendation of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. In January 2017, newly inaugurated president Donald Trump designated Pai
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Ajit Varadaraj Pai was born January 10, 1973, in Buffalo, New York. His father was a urologist and his mother was an anesthesiologist. He graduated from Harvard in 1994 with an A. B. in social studies with honors. He then went to the University of Chicago Law School, where he won a Mulroy Prize for excellence in evidence law. He worked as a lawyer in various offices of the U. S. Department of Justice and the U Senate Judiciary Committee, with a two-year stint as an in-house lawyer for Verizon Communications. He was nominated to be a commissioner in 2011 by President Barack Obama, who followed tradition in preserving balance on the commission by accepting the recommendation of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. In January 2017, newly inaugurated president Donald Trump designated Pai as FCC Chairman. He is the first Indian American to hold the office. On November 30, 2020, Pai announced his plans to leave the FCC. He will resign his post as FCC chairman on January 20, the day that Joe Biden is inaugurated as President of the United States. Pai is a proponent of repealing net neutrality in the U States and, on December 14, 2017, voted with the majority of the FCC to reverse the decision to regulate the internet under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934. In 2010, Pai was one of 55 individuals nationwide chosen for the 2011 Marshall Memorial Fellowship Fund of the German Marshall Fund of U.S.
Pai returned to the private sector in April 2011, working in the Washington D.C. office of law firm Jenner & Block, where he was a partner in the Communications Practice Practice. Pai was then nominated for a Republican Party on the Federal Communications Commission on May 7, 2012, and was sworn in on May 14, 2012,. He was confirmed unanimously by the U S. Senate on May 13, 2012. Then Pai was designated for a five-year term by President Donald Trump in January 2017 for a term that concluded on June 30, 2016. He was sworn into office in May 2014 for a new five- year term on October 2, 2017. He has been a member of the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) since 2007, serving as Deputy General Counsel from 2007 to 2011. Pai has served on the FCC’s Board of Commissioners since 2011, and served as Chairman of the Commission from 2013 to 2014. He previously served as the Chairman of FCC’s Enforcement and Antitrust Committee from 2010 to 2013. He also served as an FCC Commissioner from 2009 to 2013, when he was elected to a second term on the Commission. He served as a Commissioner from 2013-2014, and is currently serving as the Chair of the Board of FCC Commissioners from 2014-2015. Pai will be stepping down from the FCC in November 2020, when Joe Biden will be inaugurated for a third term as President. He plans to step down on the same day that Biden is sworn in as President-elect.
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