Ronald S. Katz received his B.A. in 1967 from University College at the Heights, where he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship and an Honorary Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. He received his M.A. from Oxford in 1969, followed by a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1972. Mr. Katz has been an International Legal Fellow to Indonesia. He served as a prosecutor with the U.S. Justice Department, and went on to serve as Deputy Director in the Office of the Law of the Sea Negotiations at the U.S. State Department. Mr. Katz taught trial practice and international anti-trust law at Santa Clara Law School as an adjunct professor from 1983 to 1986. He is currently teaching on an adjunct basis at Stanford University Law School and at Santa Clara University Law School.

Mr. Katz is now in private practice with the law firm of Manatt, Phelps and Phillips in Palo Alto, California. He specializes in antitrust and intellectual property issues in high technology markets. Mr. Katz has published in several legal journals, and has made editorial contributions to The New York Times and The San Francisco Chronicle.