2000 Annual Meeting Speakers
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| Katherine Abraham
Commissioner Katharine G. Abraham has served as Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics since October 8, 1993. Abraham, born in 1954, received a B.S. from Iowa State University in 1976 and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1982. She was on the faculty of the Sloan School of Management at MIT between 1980 and 1987, and was a research associate at the Brookings Institution from 1985 to 1988. Immediately prior to her appointment as Commissioner, she had been Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland. Abraham has written extensively on labor market issues. Her work has included articles about job vacancy data, studies of firms' internal labor markets, and comparative analyses of European and Japanese labor markets.
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| Martin Baily
Chair, Council of Economic Advisors Martin N. Baily was appointed by the President as Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. He was confirmed by the Senate on August 5, 1999. As Chairman, Dr. Baily serves as economic adviser to the President and is a member of the President’s Cabinet. Before joining the Council in August, Dr. Baily was a Principal at McKinsey & Company at the Global Institute in Washington, D. C. from September 1996 to July 1999. He was also a visiting fellow at the Global Institute l993-1994. Dr. Baily was a co-leader of projects on service and manufacturing productivity and employment, as well as a series of country studies, looking at France, Germany, the Netherlands, the UK, Brazil, Korea and Russia. Dr. Baily has also worked with McKinsey client teams, providing counseling to CEO’s on economic issues. Dr. Baily previously served as one of the three Members of the President’s Council from October 1994 until August 1996. As a member, Dr. Baily was responsible for macroeconomic policy as well as a range of microeconomic issues. Dr. Baily earned his Ph.D. in economics
in 1972 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After teaching
at MIT and Yale, he became a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution
in 1979 and a Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland in
1989. His research has focused on wage setting, macroeconomic policy,
innovation, productivity and economic growth. Dr. Baily was a member
of the academic advisory panel of the Congressional Budget Office. He
has served as an academic adviser to the Federal Reserve Board and testified
numerous times before Congress. He served on a panel convened by the
Office of Technology Assessment and was the Vice-Chairman of a panel
of the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council to investigate
the effect of computers on productivity. He was a research associate
of the National Bureau of Economic Research . In 1987 Dr. Baily co-founded
the Microeconomics issue of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity.
He is also the author of many professional articles, and the editor
or co-author of four books. Dr. Baily resides in Chevy Chase, Maryland
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Online News Editor Beth Belton has twenty three years experience as a journalist. In April 2000 she became Online News Editor at Business Week, where she manages the news operation of the online product and edits different sections of the magazine. Prior to that, she spent eleven years at USA Today, where she later became managing editor of the business section for USA TODAY.com and played a key role in content partnerships and a complete redesign of the site. She has also been a writer and reporter for the International Financing Review, Investment Dealers' Digest, Institutional Investor, and The Washington Times. She has a B.S. degree in Journalism from Kent State University, and
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| Abel Beltran-del-Rio
President and Founder Dr. Beltran-del-Rio is the President and Founder of CIEMEX-WEFA. In 1969, he constructed the first econometric model of Mexico to be used in continuous forecasting and developed groundbreaking techniques for building models of developing economies. A recognized expert on the Mexican economy, econometrics, and economic development, Dr. Beltran-del-Rio has trained economists in building models for Peru, Venezuela, Puerto Rico and Spain. A native of Mexico, he holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania.
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| Richard
B. Berner
Managing Director and Chief U.S. Economist
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| Dennis
W. Carlton
Professor of Economics, Graduate School
of Business Dennis W. Carlton is a Professor of Economics at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago where he teaches in the Business School, Law School and Economics Department. His teaching and research centers on microeconomics, industrial organization, and antitrust. He has published more than 50 articles and two books including one of the leading textbooks in industrial organization. He is the co-editor of the Journal of Law and Economics. In addition to his academic credentials, Mr. Carlton is President of Lexecon Inc., a leading economic consulting firm specializing in the application of economics to litigation. Mr. Carlton has served as an expert in numerous domestic and foreign cases involving issues in antitrust, regulation and intellectual property in industries ranging from telecommunications, airlines, railroads, insurance, computers, credit cards, chemicals and autos and has also recently served as a consultant for the Department of Justice and FTC. He also served as a special consultant to the Department of Justice in the revision of the 1992 Merger Guidelines. He lectures frequently on antitrust issues. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics in 1975 from MIT, his MS in Operations Research from MIT in 1974, and his AB (summa cum laude) in 1972 from Harvard College where he majored in Applied Mathematics and Economics and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
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Head, Department of Economics Barry R. Chiswick is Research Professor (since 1978) and Head (since 1987) of the Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). He is also Research Professor in the Department of Sociology and in the Survey Research Laboratory at UIC. Professor Chiswick received his Ph.D. with Distinction in Economics from Columbia University (1967) and has held permanent and visiting appointments at Columbia University, UCLA, Stanford University, Princeton University, Hebrew University (Jerusalem) and the University of Chicago. From 1973 to 1977 he was Senior Staff Economist at the President=s Council of Economic Advisers. He is a former chairman of the American Statistical Association Census Advisory Committee, past president of the Midwest Economics Association, current President of the Illinois Economics Association and a consultant to numerous U.S. government agencies, the World Bank and other international organizations. He is currently affiliated with the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London), the Joint Center for Poverty Research (Northwestern University and University of Chicago) and the Institute for the Study of Labor, IZA (Bonn). He is a member of the editorial boards of several academic journals. Professor Chiswick has an international reputation for his research in Labor Economics, Human Resources, the Economics of Immigration, the Economics of Minorities, and Income Distribution. His research has been published in 11 books and monographs and in over 130 journal articles, chapters in books and technical reports. Professor Chiswick=s most recent book is an edited volume, The Economics of Immigrant Skill and Adjustment (1997). His research is cited frequently in textbooks and in the academic literature (over 100 citations per year in academic journals as reported in the SSCI). Professor Chiswick has received numerous awards for his research, including a Fulbright (Research) Fellowship, the Senior University Scholar Award from the University of Illinois, the UIC College of Business Administration Alumni Award for Distinguished Research (first recipient), and the Carleton C. Qualey Article Award from the Immigration History Society (first recipient). He also received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Brooklyn College (1999). Professor Chiswick is frequently interviewed by the print and electronic media on Labor Market and Immigration issues. He has published policy analyses of these issues in newspapers and magazines, has testified before Congress on pending legislation, and given public lectures to academic and community groups on these issues. |
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Co-chair, Investment Policy Committee Abby is Chair of the Investment Policy Committee and is responsible for U.S. portfolio strategy. She became a managing director in 1996. Prior to joining the firm in 1990, she held a similar position at Drexel Burnham Lambert. Previously, she was with T. Rowe Price Associates as an economist and quantitative analyst. Abby began her career as an economist at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C. Abby's extracurricular activities focus on education. She is a Trustee Fellow of Cornell University and serves on the Board of Overseers of the Weill Medical College of Cornell. She previously served as Chair of the Association of Investment Management and Research (AIMR) and of the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts (ICFA). Abby has been a guest lecturer at several graduate schools of business schools and universities, and has participated in programs for New York City public schools. She serves on the investment committees of the Museum of Modern Art and Cornell University. Abby holds degrees in Economics from Cornell and the George Washington University, and has received honorary doctorates in Engineering and Humane Letters. She is ranked first in U.S. portfolio strategy by Institutional Investor Magazine and Greenwich Associates. She was inducted into the Wall Street Week Hall of Fame in 1997 and has been honored by many groups, including the Financial Women's Association and the New York Stock Exchange.
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| W. Michael
Cox
Senior Vice President & Director of
Research W. Michael Cox is senior vice president and chief economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. He advises the Bank president on monetary policy and economic issues, and heads the free enterprise research group. Cox authors the Bank's annual report essays on rising American living standards and the new economy. These reports have received extensive attention from leading publications, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Forbes, Fortune and Business Week, which reach an audience of over 200 million. He is a regular contributing columnist for Investor's Business Daily and the Internet-based think tank, IntellectualCapital.com. The media rely on Cox's ability to make plain sense out of difficult economic issues. He is a frequent guest on national radio, television and Internet programs, including CNN, Voice of America and National Public Radio. He appeared on John Stossel's ABC program "Is America #1?" Cox believes today's economy is transitioning to a new era—a so-called new paradigm. He battles economic doomsayers in his book, Myths of Rich and Poor, nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. His understanding of technology's importance in the free enterprise economy of tomorrow inspired a Wired magazine interview to name him a "Prophet of Boom." As president of the Association of Private Enterprise Education, Cox actively promotes market solutions to economic problems. He collaborates with other proponents of free enterprise through his positions as CATO Institute adjunct scholar and National Center for Policy Analysis senior fellow. University students make up one of Cox's favorite audiences. He has taught economics at Southern Methodist University since 1985. His 23 years of university teaching also include Virginia Tech, the University of Rochester and the University of Western Ontario. Cox received his undergraduate degree in
business and economics from Hendrix College and his Ph.D. in economics
from Tulane University.
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| James
E. Crawford, III
General Partner Mr. Crawford focuses on information technology and telecommunications services investing. He represents Frontenac on the boards of directors of Allegiance Telecom, Inc. (NASDAQ: ALGX), Focal Communications Corporation (NASDAQ: FCOM), Open Port Technology, Inc., Optika Inc. (NASDAQ: OPTK) and SI International, Inc. He also serves on the board of directors of Input Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: INPT). Mr. Crawford joined Frontenac in 1992 following eight years as a Partner of William Blair Venture Partners. Prior to joining William Blair, he spent six years at Mark Controls Corporation, and from 1978 to 1982, Mr. Crawford was a management consultant with McKinsey & Company. Mr. Crawford is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Princeton University where he received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering. He also studied economics at Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship.
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| Gary E. Dilts
Senior Vice President, eConnect Platform Gary E. Dilts was named Senior Vice President, eConnect Platform, effective July 1, 2000. Previously, he was Vice President, eConnect Platform. on January 31, 2000. The eConnect Platform was established to coordinate the eBusiness initiatives of DaimlerChrysler Corporation. In this role, Dilts oversees a cross-functional team that involves the strategic implementation of eBusiness initiatives throughout the company, from product creation and volume production to sales and service. In this role, Dilts also represents North American business units on the DaimlerChrysler AG global e-Task Force. Prior to this position, Dilts was Vice President, Retail Strategies and Dealer Relations. He joined Chrysler Corporation in 1977 as a management trainee in the company's Washington, DC office. His work and academic background include:
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| James Dimon
Chairman and CEO James Dimon was named chairman and chief executive officer of Bank One Corporation on March 27, 2000. Mr. Dimon is the former President of Citigroup Inc., the global financial services company formed by the combination of Travelers Group and Citicorp in October 1998. In addition, he served as chairman and co-chief executive officer of Salomon Smith Barney Holdings Inc., the company's investment banking and securities brokerage subsidiary. Prior to the creation of Citigroup, Mr. Dimon had been president and chief operating officer of Travelers Group for seven years. He was named chairman and chief executive officer of its Smith Barney Inc. subsidiary in January 1996, having previously been the firm's chief operating and chief administrative officer. In November 1997, with the merger of Smith Barney and Salomon Brothers, he became co-head, with Salomon's Chairman, of the new global securities firm. Mr. Dimon was a key member of the original team that launched and defined the strategy for a new Commercial Credit Company in October, 1986, when the consumer lending company was spun off from its then-parent, Control Data Corporation, in a public stock offering. Before assuming the presidency, he served as the company's chief financial officer and an executive vice president. In the ensuing years, Commercial Credit was completely restructured and made numerous acquisitions and divestitures, substantially improving its profitability. The most significant among these was the 1987 acquisition of, and name change to, Primerica Corporation, which in 1993 acquired The Travelers Corporation and was renamed Travelers Group. He began his professional career at American
Express Company where he was assistant to the president from 1982 to
1985. Mr. Dimon and his wife, Judy, have three daughters.
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| Robert
J Fogel
Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service
Professor of American Institutions Research Activities Education Related Experience
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| :David
Fridley
Staff Scientist Mr. Fridley has 20 years of experience working and living in China, primarily in the area of petroleum supply and demand, refinery analysis and modeling, international oil trade, energy policy, end-use, and efficiency issues in China, and climate change-related topics. For 9 years, Mr. Fridley worked with the Energy and Minerals Program at the East-West Center, where he established and developed the China Energy Project. Over the years, he has also consulted for multinational oil companies on refinery and oil market developments in China, and has worked for the governments of Thailand and Indonesia as well. For two year, he served as refining and marketing business development manager for Caltex China. Currently, Mr. Fridley is a staff scientist and manager of the China Energy Group at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California, where his work includes development of energy efficiency market transformation programs in China. Mr. Fridley is also the author of numerous
studies on the downstream oil market in China, a number of reports on
industrial and residential energy use in China, and one of the authors
of the China Energy Databook. He is a Mandarin speaker.
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| William
T Gavin
Vice President William T. Gavin is a vice president in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. He received his doctorate in economics
from Ohio State and began his career with the Federal Reserve System
as an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland in 1980. He
managed the Cleveland Research Department's macroeconomics section from
1988 through April 1994, when he left to join the St. Louis Fed. There,
he conducts research on the macroeconomic effects of alternative monetary
policy strategies. He also manages the macroeconomics section and edits
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| Richard
B Hoey
Chief Economist and Chief Investment Strategist,
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| Sara L
Johnson
North American Research Director and Chief
Regional Economist 24 Hartwell Avenue, Suite One Lexington, Massachusetts 02421-3158 (781) 860-6709 sara_johnson@standardandpoors.com Sara Johnson is North American Research Director and Chief Regional Economist with Standard & Poor's DRI, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies. As Research Director, she is responsible for U.S. and Canadian forecasting services and serves on Standard & Poor's five-member Economic Council. As Chief Regional Economist, she oversees the economic modeling, forecasting, and analyses of states, metropolitan areas, and counties of the United States. She also manages DRI's analytic consulting projects for state and local government clients. Ms. Johnson holds a B.A. degree in economics and mathematics from Wellesley College and an M.A. in economics from Harvard University with concentrations in finance and macroeconomic theory. Ms. Johnson joined DRI in 1973 as a research economist in the U.S. Economic Service. After completing doctoral course work in economics at Harvard University in 1977, she became Director of Long-Term Studies and Senior Economist for the U.S. Economic Service. She joined DRI's Regional Economic Service in 1989 and became Chief Regional Economist in 1995 and North American Research Director in 1998. Ms. Johnson has served on the Boards of Trustees of the Boston 1784 Funds and BayFunds. She is a member of the Boston Economic Club and a past President of the Boston Association of Business Economists, a regional chapter of the National Association for Business Economics. She also serves on the Board of Overseers of Newton-Wellesley Hospital and is Treasurer and Director of The New York Collegium, a Baroque period orchestra and chorus. Since 1991, Ms. Johnson has served on the
Governor's Economic Council, advising two Massachusetts governors on
public policy and economic development and chairing the Governor's Task
Force on Tax Policy and Capital Formation. Ms. Johnson also has extensive
experience in local government, having served on the Board of Selectmen,
Board of Library Trustees, Advisory Committee, and Town Meeting in Wellesley,
Massachusetts.
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| Steven N.
Kaplan
Neubauer Family Professor of Entrepreneurship Steven N. Kaplan is the Neubauer Family Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (GSB). He is the faculty director of the GSB’s entrepreneurship area. Professor Kaplan has been a member of the faculty since 1988. He earned his Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University. He received his A.B., summa cum laude, in Applied Mathematics and Economics from Harvard College. Prior to completing his Ph.D. studies, Professor Kaplan held positions with Kidder, Peabody & Co. and Booz, Allen & Hamilton. Professor Kaplan's research, teaching, and consulting focus on issues in private equity and entrepreneurial finance, e-commerce, corporate governance, corporate restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate finance. He co-authored lead articles on business-to-business e-commerce in the May-June 2000 issue of Harvard Business Review and in the September 1999 issue of Business 2.0. He has published papers in a number of academic journals. He received the Smith Breeden Prize for the First Prize Paper in the Journal of Finance in 1998. Professor Kaplan is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a former director of the American Finance Association. Professor Kaplan teaches advanced M.B.A. and executive courses in entrepreneurial finance and private equity, and in corporate financial management. He has been the number one rated teacher at the GSB in Business Week's surveys since 1992. Professor Kaplan was named one of the top twelve business school teachers in the United States in Business Week's 1994 survey of M.B.A. programs. He was named one of the top four teachers of entrepreneurship in the United States in Business Week's 1996 survey. Professor Kaplan was awarded the GSB’s McKinsey Prize for Teaching Excellence in 1998. Professor Kaplan serves on the board of
directors of Acorn Funds, Benchmarking Partners, divine interVentures,
ImageMax, Morningstar, and Vectiv. He is: on the advisory board of Agweb.com,
Autodaq, Buildpoint.com, CapacityWeb, CapitalThinking, Corio, ElevenBaskets
(merged into VentureOne FounderFunds), Epigraph, Epotec, e-STEEL, Fob.com,
Incent, Irvine Networks, Mirronex, MorganWorks, Nutrabid, Starbelly.com
(merged into Ha-Lo), SurePayroll.com, TextilEdge.com, TradeTextile.com
and Vast Video; and an advisor to the board of PaperExchange.com. He
formerly served on the advisory boards of: BigEdge.com (merged into
MVP.com), iMark.com (merged into Freemarkets), and SoftSheen Products
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| George G
Kaufman
John F. Smith Professor of Finance and
Economics Before teaching at Loyola University, Professor Kaufman was a research fellow, economist and research officer at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago from 1959 to 1970 and has been a consultant to the Bank since 1981. From 1970 to 1980, he was the John B. Rogers Professor of Banking and Finance and Director of the Center for Capital Market Research in the College of Business Administration at the University of Oregon. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Southern California (1970), Stanford University (1975-76), and the University of California at Berkeley (1979), and a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (1976) and the Office of the comptroller of Currency (1978). Professor Kaufman also served as Deputy to the Assistant secretary for Economic Policy of the U.S. Treasury in 1976. He has taught at Loyola since 1981. Professor Kaufman received his B.A. from Oberlin College (1954), M.A. from the University of Michigan (1955), and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Iowa (1962). Professor Kaufman's teaching and research interests are in financial economics, institutions, markets and regulation and in monetary policy. Most recently, he has been involved in developing ways of preventing bank crises and reforming deposit insurance in the U.S. and elsewhere. He has lectured extensively on these subjects in the U.S. and abroad. He has published extensively in the American Economic Review, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis and other professional journals. Professor Kaufman is also the author or editor of numerous books, including Money, the Financial System and the Economy (third edition, Houghton-Mifflin, 1981); The U.S. Financial System: Money, Markets, and Institutions (sixth edition, Prentice-Hall, 1995); Perspectives on Safe and Sound Banking: Past, Present, and Future (MIT Press, 1986) (co-author); Innovations in Bond Portfolio Management: Duration Analysis and Immunization (JAI Press, 1983) (co-editor); Deregulating Financial Services: Public Policy in Flux (Ballinger Press, 1986) (co-editor); Restructuring the American Financial System (Kluwer, 1990) (editor); Assessing Bank Reform, (Brookings, 1993) (co-editor); Reforming Financial Institutions and Markets in the U.S. (Kluwer, 1994) (editor); Preventing Bank Crises (FRB of Chicago and World Bank, October 1998) (co-editor); The Asian Financial Crisis (Kluwer, 1999) (co-editor); Global Financial Crises (Kluwer 2000) (co-editor); and the annual Research in Financial Services (JAI Press) (editor). Professor Kaufman has served on the board of directors of the American Finance Association (1977-80) and as president of both the Western Finance Association (1974-75) and the Midwest Finance Association (1986-87). He is past co-editor of the Journal of Financial Services Research and is serving or has served on the editorial boards of a number of major professional journals, including the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Financial Research, Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies and Contemporary Economic Policy. He also served on the advisory board of the International Association of Financial Engineers from 1992 through 1999. Professor Kaufman has served as a consultant to numerous government agencies and private firms, including being a member of the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation Task Force on Reappraising Deposit Insurance (1983), the American Bankers Association Task Force on Bank Safety and Soundness (1985), the American Enterprise Institute Project on Financial Regulation (1987), and the Brookings Institution Task Force on Depository Institutions Reform, whose report was published under the title Blueprint for Restructuring America's Financial Institutions (1989). He is co-chair of the Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee, a group of independent banking experts who analyze and comment on economic, legislative and regulatory factors affecting the financial services industry, and executive director of Financial Economists Roundtable. He has testified before Congress and other legislative and policy groups on numerous occasions. Professor Kaufman was a director of the Rochester Community Savings Bank (New York) from 1988 through 1997 and from 1982 to 1986 he served as an elected trustee of the Teachers Insurance Annuity Association and College Retirement Equity Fund (TIAA-CREF), the largest private pension fund in the country. In 1992, he was named Loyola University's faculty member of the year.
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| Frederick
T. Knickerbocker
Associate Director for Economic Programs Mr. Knickerbocker became the Associate Director for Economic Programs, Bureau of the Census, in March, 1995. In that position he is responsible for nearly 100 separate monthly, quarterly, and annual economic and business surveys, for the economic and government censuses taken every 5 years, and for preparation of many of the nation's principal economic indicators. From 1981 until 1995, Mr. Knickerbocker
served as the Executive Director of the Economics and Statistics Administration,
Department of Commerce. In the late 1970s, he served as the Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Industry Policy and the Deputy Assistant Secretary for
International Policy Coordination within the Department of Commerce.
In the first half of the 1970s, he was a member of the faculty of the
Harvard Business School. Mr. Knickerbocker was educated at Williams College (B.A.), University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School (M.B.A.), and Harvard University (D.B.A.). He is married, has two grown children, and is a resident of Chevy Chase, Maryland.
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| Dr.
J. Steven Landefeld
Director, Bureau of Economic Analysis Dr. Landefeld has been Director of the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) since 1995. BEA is the statistical agency within the Department of Commerce responsible for the national, international, regional, and industry accounts -- including such estimates as Gross Domestic Product (GDP), personal income, corporate profits, the U.S. balance of payments, State and local area personal income, U.S. capital stocks, input-output estimates, foreign direct investment estimates, and GDP-by-industry. Prior to becoming Director of BEA, Dr. Landefeld served in a number of other capacities at the Bureau, including Acting Director, Deputy Director, and Associate Director for International Economics. While at BEA, he has led a number of pioneering efforts in statistics, including the introduction of unbiased estimates of real GDP and prices, the development of monthly estimates of trade in goods and services, alternative balance of payments accounts, integrated economic and environmental accounts, and the use of data exchanges with foreign banks to improve international capital estimates. Dr. Landefeld also has led a number of managerial improvements at the Bureau including the introduction of a performance-based personnel system, the development of "private-sector" financial accounts (BEA was one of the first Bureaus in the Department to receive an unqualified opinion from an outside auditor on its financial statement), and the move from an antiquated mainframe to an integrated micro-computer network (BEA was the first major statistical agency to successfully make such a move). Before coming to BEA, Dr. Landefeld held a number of positions, including Chief of Staff for the President's Council of Economic Advisers, Director of the Business Issues Analysis Division at the Department of Commerce, and Research Assistant Professor at Georgetown University. He has authored numerous professional articles and has received the Henri Willem Methorst Medal from the International Statistical Institute, two Abramson Scroll Awards from the National Association of Business Economists, and Gold, Silver, and Bronze Awards from the Department of Commerce for his work. Dr. Landefeld has served on numerous professional committees and working groups including those of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, the International Monetary Fund, the United Nations, and the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth.
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| Nicholas R
Lardy
Senior Fellow Nicholas R. Lardy is a Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies program at the Brookings Institution, having joined the staff in September 1995. Lardy came to Brookings from the University of Washington, where he was the director of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies since 1991. He is an expert in Asia, especially the Chinese economy. Before his directorship, Lardy had been a professor of international studies at the University of Washington since 1985 and an associate professor from 1983-1985. He was the chair of the China Program from 1984-1989. He was an assistant and associate professor of economics at Yale University from 1975-1983. He received his B.A. from the University of Wisconsin in 1968 and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1975, both in economics. Lardy has written numerous articles and books on the Chinese economy. His current project at Brookings, Integrating China in the Global Economy, explores whether reforms of China's economy and its foreign trade and exchange rate systems will be sufficient to integrate it much more deeply in the world economy. The result of his previous project, China's Unfinished Economic Revolution, was published in September 1998. The study evaluates the reform of China's banking system and measures the economic consequences of deferring reform in the state-owned sector. Some of his other publications include: "Permanent Normal Trade Relations for China," Brookings Policy Brief, # 58 (May 2000); "China and the Asian Contagion," Foreign Affairs, Vol. 77, No. 4, (July/August 1998); "The Role of Foreign Trade and Investment in China's Economic Transformation," The China Quarterly, No. 144 (December 1995); China in the World Economy (Institute for International Economics, 1994); "Chinese Foreign Trade" The China Quarterly, No. 131 (September 1992); Foreign Trade and Economic Reform in China, 1978-1990 (Cambridge University Press, 1992, paperback, 1993); Agriculture in China's Modern Economic Development (Cambridge University Press, 1983) and Economic Growth and Distribution in China (Cambridge University Press, 1978). Lardy is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is a member of the Editorial Board of The China Quarterly, the Journal of Asian Business, the Journal of Contemporary China, and the China Economic Review.
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| Rachel
J Mandal
Research Associate Rachel J. Mandal is a Research Associate at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. She holds a bachelor's degree in Economics from Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT where she also worked as a teaching apprentice and research assistant.
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Global Economics Correspondent Michael McKee is the Global Economics Correspondent for Bloomberg News,
covering economic trends and central banks in the United States and
around the globe. He is constantly on the road, reporting on developments
on all continents for Bloomberg's international wire service, used by
financial professionals and leading newspapers and magazines throughout
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| Michael
Moskow
President and CEO MICHAEL H. MOSKOW took office on September 1, 1994, as the eighth president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. In that capacity, he serves on the Federal Open Market Committee, the Federal Reserve System's most important monetary policymaking body. Mr. Moskow's career includes service in the public and private sectors, as well as academia. During the course of his career, Mr. Moskow has been confirmed by the Senate for five U.S. government positions. He began his career teaching economics, labor relations, and management at Temple University, Lafayette College, and Drexel University. From 1969 to 1977, he held a number of senior positions with the U.S. government, including under secretary of labor at the U.S. Department of Labor, director of the Council on Wage and Price Stability, assistant secretary for policy development and research at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and senior staff economist with the Council of Economic Advisors. In 1977, Mr. Moskow joined the private sector at Esmark, Inc. in Chicago and later held senior management positions at Northwest Industries, Dart and Kraft, Inc., and Premark International, Inc., a spin-off from Dart and Kraft. In 1991, President Bush appointed Mr. Moskow Deputy United States Trade Representative, with the rank of Ambassador. He was responsible for trade negotiations with Japan, China, and Southeast Asian countries as well as industries such as steel, semiconductor, aircraft, and telecommunications. Mr. Moskow returned to academia in 1993, joining the faculty of the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, where he was professor of strategy and international management at the time of his appointment as president of the Chicago Reserve Bank. Mr. Moskow is active in numerous professional and civic organizations. He serves as director of the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce, World Business Chicago, and the Economic Club of Chicago. Additionally, he is a director of the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City. Mr. Moskow is also a trustee of Lafayette College and a member of the Advisory Board to the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, and the Visiting Committee of the Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago. In addition, he is a member of the Civic Committee of The Commercial Club of Chicago, a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration and a member of the Governing Board of the Illinois Council on Economic Education. Mr. Moskow was born in Paterson, New Jersey. He received a B.A. in economics from Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, in 1959, and an M.A. in economics in 1962 and a Ph.D. in business and applied economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1965.
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| Joel
Mokyr
Robert H Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences Joel Mokyr is the Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences, Chair of the Department of Economics and Professor of History at Northwestern University. He specializes in economic history and the economics of technological change and population change. He is the author of Why Ireland Starved: An Analytical and Quantitative Study of the Irish Economy, The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress, The British Industrial Revolution: An Economic Perspective and over 50 articles and books in his field. He has served as the senior editor of the Journal of Economic History until July 1998 and is currently editor in chief of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History and the Princeton University Press Economic History of the Western World. Professor Mokyr has an undergraduate degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Ph.D, in economics from Yale University. He has taught at Northwestern since 1974, and has been a visiting Professor at Harvard, the University of Chicago, Stanford, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of Tel Aviv, University College of Dublin and the University of Manchester. He has published six books and over 50 articles in scholarly journals and collections. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a former vice President of the Economic History Association. His books have won a number of important prizes including the Joseph Schumpeter memorial prize (1990) and the Rankyi prize awarded by the Economic history association. His current research applies insights from evolutionary theory to long-run changes in technological knowledge.
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| Robert D. McTeer,
Jr.
President and Chief Executive Officer Bob McTeer became President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas on February 1, 1991. He came to the Dallas Fed from the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond and its Baltimore Branch. Bob is originally from Georgia, and received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Georgia. In addition to his career in the Federal Reserve, Bob has taught economics part time at several universities, including The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He is a past President of the Association of Private Enterprise Education, a national association of holders of university chairs of Free Enterprise and economic educators. The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas serves all of Texas, as well as Northern Louisiana and Southern New Mexico. In addition to his role as President and CEO of the Dallas Fed, Bob serves as a member of the Federal Reserve's principal monetary policymaking committee, the Federal Open Market Committee. The FOMC meets about every six weeks to determine monetary policy for the coming period. Mr. McTeer created a stir last year when he voted against the Fed's first two tightening moves in June and August.
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| David
R. Payne
Economist/statistician Author of two Business Economics articles related to predicting the GDP growth rate before BEA's advance GDP release. Other areas of research interest: explaining the size and path that the GDP adding-up difference takes over time; analysis of saving and credit market flows using the Federal Reserve's flow of funds data; and general macroeconomic issues.
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| Phil
Ponce
Host, "Chicago Tonight" |
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| Alice M.
Rivlin
Senior Fellow, Economic Studies Expertise: Budget, congressional budget process, economics, Federal Reserve System, fiscal policy, government, national health care policy, financial management in public administration. Background |
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| Donald
H. Straszheim
President Donald H. Straszheim is President of the
Milken Institute. He came to the Institute in 1997 from Merrill Lynch
& Co., where he had served as chief economist since 1985. As primary
economic spokesman for one of the world's largest securities firms and
architect of its economic and financial market viewpoint, Straszheim
led a team of economists stationed throughout the world. He was 10 times
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| Diane
Swonk
Chief Economist and Senior Vice
President, Bank One Diane Swonk has been with the bank since the start of her career in 1985. She manages the bank's corporate economics' group and designed the bank's regional model. She authors many of the bank's economic publications and has released several nationally acclaimed studies. She is called upon as an economic expert by policymakers from Chicago to Washington, and is among the most quoted by the news media on the economy. Chicago Magazine recently said, "her name sometimes seems the very heartbeat of the business pages." She has contributed to articles in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and major news magazines such as Business Week. She is also a regular commentator on CNBC and CNN, is a frequent guest on the major news networks, and has appeared on "Wall Street Week" on PBS. She has served on several boards, including the National Association for Business Economics. As the president of NABE, she shares a title that was also held by Alan Greenspan and several Federal Reserve Bank presidents. She is the youngest president to serve in the association's history. Founded in 1959, NABE has over 3000 members and 44 chapters nationwide. Ms. Swonk has received several prestigious awards, and was named the "Financial voice of the Midwest" by the Chicago Tribune. Ms. Swonk received her bachelors and masters degrees in economics with honors from the University of Michigan, and MBA with honors from the University of Chicago. In June, Ms. Swonk was named the "Top Woman in Finance" in Chicago by Today's Chicago Woman magazine, and in July, Ms. Swonk was named one of the top forecasters in the country by the Wall Street Journal.
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| Naoki
Tanaka
President Current Position: Economic Analyst; President, The 21st Century Public Policy Institute Education:1968 B.A.(Law), Tokyo University; 1973 Finished all course works for Ph.D. (Economics) at Tokyo University. Career: 1971 Senior Fellow of Kokumin Keizai Research Institute; 1984 start activities as an Economic analyst; 1994.12 Member of Administrative Reform Committee; 1996.3 Chairman of Subcommittee for Appropriate Demarcation of the Public and the Private Sector Activities; 1997.4 President of The 21st Century Public Policy Institute. Works:1990 Grand Vision of Japan; 1992 Towards the Twenty-first Century - A Vision for the Japanese Economy A Vision of Japanese Politics; 1996 A Vision of New Industrial Society, The Age of Asia; Japanese Economy after the Big Bang; Super Structure.
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US Managing Editor Robert James Thomson became US managing editor of the Financial Times in September 1998, taking prime editorial responsibility for the newspaper’s ambitious drive into the US market, which has seen the paper’s circulation rise sharply over the past year. He has been a journalist since early 1979 when he joined The Herald in Melbourne, where he worked as a finance and general affairs reporter before becoming the paper’s Sydney correspondent. In 1983 he was hired by the Sydney Morning Herald to be a senior feature writer and that paper sent him to Beijing in 1985 when the Financial times shared a China bureau with the Sydney paper. He wrote extensively about Chinese economic and social reform and was in Beijing for the Financial times during the Tiananmen crisis. Mr. Thomson was appointed Tokyo correspondent for the Financial Times in 1989 and covered Japanese finance and politics during a period of great upheaval in that country. He was the spectacular excesses of the Japanese "bubble economy" and watched the unfolding economic debacle in the early 1990s and the unprecedented fall of the Liberal Democratic Party. In 1994, the FT selected him to be Foreign News Editor, overseeing the paper’s network of correspondents, a post he held for two years, before he was appointed Editor of the Weekend financial Times and Assistant Editor of the Financial Times in 1996. Under his editorship, the Weekend FT was
redesigned and became the fastest growing broadsheet newspaper in the
UK and a model for other weekend newspapers around the world. In the
summer of 1998, Mr. Thomson was chosen to take the helm in the US. |
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President Lisabeth Weiner is owner and president of Lisabeth Weiner Consultants, a company that provides executive counsel to CEOs and senior executives to assist with managing the visibility and positioning of their companies. Areas of specialization are: using communications to support strategic business goals, crisis communications consulting, reputation management, and media relations. The firm's client base is in diverse industries including technology, healthcare, financial services and manufacturing. Prior to starting her own company, Lisabeth Weiner was a vice president in the corporate practice of Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide. Some of her client work included an analysis of the Teamsters/UPS strike, crises communications for Fortune 100 companies, crisis management and positioning for a major medical center, and managing a name change and identity program for a manufacturing company. She has also counseled clients in high profile situations involving Dateline and 60 Minutes. From 1990 to 1996, Weiner ran the public relations department at First Chicago Corporation (now Bank One Corporation) where she served as chief spokesperson for Chicago's largest bank. During that time, she handled numerous strategic and highly sensitive issues related to corporate restructurings, corporate finance, crisis communications, risk management, strategic redirection, senior management changes and all of the communications issues related to its 1995 merger of equals. She was part of a team that helped build a visibility program for the institution and its chairman, which earned him the recognition of Crain's Chicago Business Executive of the Year in 1994. At First Chicago she also established several integrated marketing and public relations programs related to retail banking, investment products and corporate finance. In addition to her expertise in financial services, Weiner has conducted media training programs and has extensive public speaking experience on communications issues. From 1984 until 1990, Weiner was a reporter in the Chicago bureau of American Banker, a daily financial services newspaper, where she wrote about mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, public finance, commercial lending and money center banking. Prior to that she worked for the Reuters News Agency in both its Chicago and New York bureaus, where she handled corporate news, banking, financial services companies, and also covered financial futures, commodity news and the futures exchanges. Weiner has a M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University in New York and a BA from the University of Minnesota. She also attended Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs as a Sloan Fellow, specializing in economics and journalism. Weiner is a tutor with Literacy Chicago and served as treasurer of Community Media Workshop. |
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