Dean C. Garfield was elected President and CEO of the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI) in October 2008 by the association's board of directors.  As the premier voice, advocate, and thought leader for the information and communications (ICT) sector, Dean regards innovation as the key driver for the private sector becoming more prominent in spurring sustainable job growth in the United States.  By building public-private sector partnerships to cultivate the world’s best and brightest workforce, and preserving our nation’s global competitiveness for the next generation of Americans, Dean recognizes that the ICT sector can be part of the solution to the significant challenges and opportunities currently before our country.

Dean comes to ITI after serving most recently as Executive Vice President and Chief Strategic Officer for the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). While there, he was a member of the senior management team and was responsible for developing the association's global strategies, securing accomplishment of key operational objectives, and forging industry alliances on behalf of the MPAA.

He was also in charge of MPAA's Research and Technology Departments and represented the MPAA before legislative bodies and at key conferences around the world, including the European Commission and at Oxford University.

Before that, Dean was Vice President of Legal Affairs at the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). He helped develop the organization's comprehensive intellectual property policy and litigation strategies and managed several of the country's most important intellectual property cases, including the Grokster/Kazaa case, from its filing to its resolution at the Supreme Court.

Dean has worked as an attorney in New York and Washington. He received a joint degree from New York University School of Law and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Administration and International Affairs at Princeton University. He was a Ford-Rockefeller as well as a Root-Tilden-Snow scholar.

Dean is a regular contributor to National Journal’s Education blog and has been featured in several national and beltway publications representing the ICT industry on the issues that matter most to the sector, as its premier voice and thought leader.

He lives in Washington, DC with his wife and two children.