Draft:John M. Eger

John M. Eger (born January 16, 1940) is an educationist and has served as the senior vice president and general manager at CBS Broadcast Group Worldwide Enterprise. He is also known for serving as the director of the White House office of telecommunications policy.

Corporate Leadership
Eger has served in Washington, D.C., as principal adviser to the president for telecommunications policy, legal assistant to the chair of the Federal Communications Commission, and director of the White House Office of Telecommunications Policy during President Nixon's administration, where he restructured America's telecom industry. In 1978, Eger joined the law firm Lamb Eastman and Keats in Washington, D.C., where he practiced until 1981. He then joined CBS Inc. as Vice President of Strategic Planning and International Development.

During his tenure at CBS, he introduced the People's Republic of China to commercial broadcasting. In 2016, after serving for more than 20 years as the Van Deerlin Endowed Chair for Communication and Public Policy at San Diego State University, Eger was appointed as the first Zahn Professor of Creativity and Innovation.