Author, policy advocate, and law professor Tim Wu will deliver the 2026 Walter Harding Lecture at SUNY Geneseo on September 30 at 4:30 p.m. in Doty Recital Hall. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Following the lecture, Wu will sign copies of his most recent book, The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity (2025).

Currently Julius Silver Professor of Law, Science and Technology at Columbia University, Wu played a key role in crafting competition and antitrust policies for the Biden administration, where he was appointed Special Assistant to the President for Technology and Competition Policy in 2021. A longtime analyst of the media and technology sectors who has focused on the effects of monopoly power, he is credited with coining the term “net neutrality” in 2002.