David is an antitrust attorney and a Senior Fellow at American Progress focusing on competition policy, intellectual property law, and health care. He has over 25 years of experience as an antitrust attorney in the private sector, the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, and the Federal Trade Commission. During the Clinton Administration David was the Policy Director of the FTC and attorney advisor to Chairman Robert Pitofsky. In these leadership roles, David was a senior advisor in developing competition policy and identifying key enforcement initiatives and played a key role in several litigated cases, including the challenges to the Staples/Office Depot and Heinz/Beechnut mergers, the Intel monopolization case, and the challenges to anticompetitive conduct by several pharmaceutical companies. He is nationally known for his expertise in competition policy in high tech industries, semiconductors, health care, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, media, and financial services; and regularly provides advice on mergers, strategic alliances, and joint ventures.