Ira Magaziner (born November 8, 1947?^[1]) was an aide to President Clinton and later became his chief Internet policy advisor. He is perhaps best known for starting what later became ICANN. Magaziner is also known for leading, along with Hillary Clinton, the failed Task Force to Reform Health Care in the early Clinton administration. Despite calls from some that he step down after the Health Care Program died in Congress, Clinton asked Magaziner to stay to become his "Internet Czar". As the Internet was still in its developing stages, Magaziner played a great role in maintaining the Internet as a duty free zone. November 8 is the 312th day of the year (313th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 53 days remaining. ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... William Jefferson Bill Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. ... ICANN (pronounced I can) is the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. ... Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born October 26, 1947), was First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001, as the wife of President Bill Clinton. ... In 1993, United States President Bill Clintons administration proposed a significant health care reform package. ... In economics, a duty is a kind of tax, often associated with customs, a payment due to the revenue of a state, levied by force of law. ...

During his college years at Brown University, Magaziner was one of the two architects of the "New Curriculum", a liberal academic approach which includes no core requirements aside from the concentration the student pursues. Magaziner excelled academically at Brown; he was named valedictorian of his class in 1969. He was named a Rhodes Scholar upon graduation. At Oxford, Magaziner met Bill Clinton, also a Rhodes Scholar, who would become a close friend and boss during the 1990s. Brown University is a university located in Providence, Rhode Island. ... In the United States and Canada, the title of valedictorian (an anglicized derivation from the Latin vale dicere to say farewell) is given to the top graduate of the graduating class (compare dux) of an educational institution. ... 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... Rhodes House in Oxford The Rhodes Scholarships were initiated after the death of Cecil John Rhodes and have been awarded to applicants annually since 1902 by the Oxford-based Rhodes Trust on the basis of academic qualities, as well as those of character. ... Oxford is a city and local government district in Oxfordshire, England, with a population of 134,248 (2001 census). ... See also 1990s, the band The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive, sometimes informally including popular culture from the very late 1980s and from 2000 and beyond. ...

Magaziner worked as a corporate stategist for the Boston Consulting Group in Boston, London and Tokyo from 1973 to 1979. He founded Telesis in 1979 and built it into a respected international firm with offices in the U.S., France, Japan and Australia. Magaziner sold Telesis in 1986 to Towers Perrin Inc. and managed the U.S. strategy practice for Towers Perrin from 1986 to 1989.

In the 1970s, Magaziner was the BCG consultant in charge of creating a national industrial strategy for the country of Sweden. This lead to the infamous "Boston Report," which was generally vilified by Swedish politicians. Two decades later the future Magaziner's team envisioned in terms of rising and declining industries had come to pass almost fully.^{[citation needed]}

In 1990, Magaziner was the architect of Richard Miller's failed attempt to turn Wang Laboratories around.^[2] Richard Miller is a political philosopher and professor at Cornell, see Richard W. Miller an FBI agent who was arrested for spying in 1983, see Richard Miller a Belgian politician, see Richard Miller an operatic tenor, a professor of singing at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, and the author... Wang logo circa 1980. ...

Magaziner also had significant influence in Rhode Island, where he devised a plan, known as the Greenhouse Compact, which, upon approval by the voters, he believed would resolve several key economic issues in the state and create several business "incubators". Opposed by politicians and business leaders, it was overwhelmingly rejected by voters in 1984.

He is currently CEO of SJS Advisors, a consulting company. Simultaneously, Magaziner is Chairman of the AIDS Initiative and Chairman of the Clinton Foundation Policy Board at the William Jefferson Clinton Foundation.

Magaziner lives in Milton, Massachusetts and in Bristol, Rhode Island with his wife Suzanne and children Seth, Jonathan and Sarah.   Milton is a suburban town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. ... Official language(s) English Capital Boston Largest city Boston Area  Ranked 44th  - Total 10,555 sq mi (27,360 km²)  - Width 183 miles (295 km)  - Length 113 miles (182 km)  - % water 13. ... Nickname: Motto: Official website: http://www. ... Official language(s) None Capital Providence Largest city Providence Area  Ranked 50th  - Total 1,214* sq mi (3,144* km²)  - Width 37 miles (60 km)  - Length 48 miles (77 km)  - % water 32. ...

References

1. ^ Ira Magaziner. Soylent Communications. Retrieved on 2006-10-12.
2. ^ Warsh, David (1993), "Only You, Dick Daring," The Boston Globe, March 21, 1993, Business p. 77: "His last major consulting engagement, at Wang Laboratories, bombed... Magaziner proposed to take Wang out of the manufacture of computers altogether, and to go big into imaging software instead. It was the right idea, says one corporate director, but he had no idea how to implement it. The company is preparing to leave the protection of the bankruptcy act -- without Miller."