Ajit Pai, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, will step down Jan. 20, the agency said in a release Monday.
In a statement Pai said: “It has been the honor of a lifetime to serve at the Federal Communications Commission, including as Chairman of the FCC over the past four years. To be the first Asian-American to chair the FCC has been a particular privilege. As I often say: only in America.”
In his statement, Pai placed particular emphasis on the procedural transparency measures he put in place.
He said: “For the first time ever, we’ve made public drafts of the proposals and orders slated for a vote three weeks before the agency’s monthly meetings, making this the most transparent FCC in history.”
Pai was appointed chairman in 2017 and served for the duration of the Trump administration, overseeing an unusually active period in federal telecom policy.
