Speaker Bio
Meredith Attwell Baker
President and CEO
CTIA
Meredith Attwell Baker joined CTIA-The Wireless Association as its President and CEO in June 2014. She brings extensive experience on spectrum issues and wireless policy and a keen understanding of how government and business must work together to drive innovation.
Prior to joining CTIA, Meredith served as the Senior Vice President of Government Affairs at Comcast NBCUniversal where she was responsible for developing policy positions on legislative and regulatory issues and representing those positions before the U.S. Congress, the Administration and government agencies.
Appointed by President Barack Obama in 2009, Meredith served as a Commissioner to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) until June 2011. During her tenure, she championed a forward-looking approach to spectrum management issues as well as a flexible regulatory environment to encourage continued innovation and competition in the technology and telecommunications industries.
Prior to joining the FCC, Meredith served in the Bush Administration as the Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information as well as the Acting Administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). While at NTIA, she facilitated the nation’s historic transition to digital television, which freed commercial spectrum for wireless companies, and promoted market-based policies that encouraged innovation; served on delegations representing the United States at major international telecommunications conferences; and engaged in bilateral discussions with senior level officials from countries around the world to encourage investment in the United States.
Meredith serves on multiple boards, including the Economic Club of Washington, the National Alliance to End Homelessness and St. Christopher’s by the Sea. She has received multiple honors and awards including: Washingtonian’s Most Powerful Women in Washington, Tech Titans and Most Influential People; Washington Business Journal’s Women Who Mean Business, Fierce Wireless’ Most Powerful People in Wireless, The Hill’s Top Lobbyist and Washington & Lee University’s Distinguished Alumni. In 2023, she was inducted into the Wireless Hall of Fame.
Meredith holds a B.A. from Washington & Lee University and a law degree from the University of Houston. She is a member of the Texas State Bar. She and her husband Jamie reside in Arlington, Virginia. She has four stepdaughters and three grandchildren.