FTC Chairman to give Park Lecture

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Majoras to give
Roy H. Park Distinguished Lecture at the school on Oct. 11

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras, who Washingtonian Magazine called one of the “100 Most Powerful Women in Washington,” will speak at the school on Thursday, Oct. 11.

The free, public lecture at 5:30 p.m. in Carroll Hall room 111 is part of the Roy H. Park Distinguished Lecture Series.

Majoras' speech, titled “The Role of Truthful Information in the Marketplace,” will cover a wide array of topics including how the FTC responds to the information market.

Since Majoras was sworn in as chairman in August 2004, she has directed efforts to protect consumers from emerging frauds, including identity theft, spy ware and deceptive spam. In 2006, President Bush appointed her co-chair of his Identity Theft Task Force.

Majoras served as deputy assistant attorney general and principal deputy of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division from 2001 until 2003. Prior to that, she was a partner in the antitrust section of Jones Day, representing clients in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, monopolization, price fixing, distribution issues and governmental investigations.

Majoras received the International Association of Privacy Professionals’ 2007 Privacy Leadership Award and the 2007 Award for Excellence in the Field of Public Policy given by RSA Security. SC Magazine named her one of the Top Five Influential Security Thinkers in 2006.

For more information, contact Kyle York at sky@unc.edu or 919.966.3323.