Skip Pizzi is a Senior Policy Analyst in Microsoft's Entertainment & Devices Division. He serves as technical advisor to the company's legal staff and outside counsel, and helps define the company's media-related public and business policies, while also representing Microsoft in digital broadcast regulatory and standards organizations worldwide, and serving as a corporate liaison to the broadcast technology industry.  
 
Skip is also Contributing Editor at Radio World magazine, where he writes "The Big Picture" column that appears in every issue. Previously, Skip served as Technical Editor, Editor and Editor-in-chief at Broadcast Engineering and BE Radio (now Radio) magazines. Earlier he spent 13 years at National Public Radio (NPR), where he served as technical director for numerous award- winning programs, and founded the company's technical training program. His book, Digital Radio Basics, the world's first on the subject of DAB, was published in 1992. He has contributed to several other technical texts, including McGraw Hill's Digital Consumer Electronics Handbook, the NAB Engineering Handbook, and the CRC/IEEE Press Electronics Handbook.
 
He is a frequent speaker at international conferences on broadcasting, audio and music, and currently co-chairs the Surround Sound Audio Task Group of the U.S.'s National Radio Systems Committee. Skip also serves as a judge for the National Television Academy's "Technical Emmy" Awards. He is a graduate of Georgetown University in Washington, DC, where he studied International Economics, Electrical Engineering and Fine Arts.