Areas of Expertise

• International Telecommunications
• Space and Satellite Communication
• Broadband Communication Networks
• ICTs and Rural and Regional Development

Professor Flournoy teaches the new technologies of communication, satellite communication, Internet communication, world media systems and international communications and development. His research focuses on the application of information and communication technologies to the solution of human problems and the establishment of public policy that facilitates free and open public access to broadband communication networks.

Dr. Flournoy is the author of eight books and numerous scholarly and professional articles. He is the Editor of the Online Journal of Space Communication (spacejournal.org), the Education VP of the Society of Satellite Professionals International (sspi.org). He serves on the Board of Advisors of the Intelligent Community Forum (ICF.org).

He was Project Manager in a series of experiments conducted aboard NASA's Advanced Communication Satellite. ACTS was the first all-digital spacecraft featuring on-board data processing and switching, hopping spot beams, frequency re-use and opening of the Ka spectrum band.

He holds Ph.D. and M.A. degrees from the University of Texas and an Associateship from the University of London. He has served as Dean at Ohio University, Associate Dean, State University of New York/Buffalo; and Assistant Dean, Case Institute of Technology, Cleveland, working under Case President T. Keith Glennan, the first Director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Education
Post Graduate Associateship, University Of London – UK
Ph.D., University of Texas
M.A., University of Texas
B.A., Southern Methodist University