Speakers

Paul S. Atkins
Commissioner
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Paul S. Atkins was appointed by President George W. Bush to be a commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 29, 2002. After serving as a commissioner for over one year, he was re-nominated by President Bush on September 3, 2003. He was reconfirmed by the Senate on October 24, 2003.

Commissioner Atkins' 20-year career has focused on the financial services industry and securities regulation. Before his appointment as commissioner, he assisted financial services firms in improving their compliance with SEC regulations and worked with law enforcement agencies to investigate and rectify situations where investors had been harmed. The largest of these investigations involved the Bennett Funding Group, Inc., a $1 billion leasing company that perpetrated the largest "Ponzi" fraud in U.S. history, in which more than 20,000 investors lost much of their investment. Assisting the company's court-appointed bankruptcy trustee, he served as crisis president of Bennett's sole surviving subsidiary. By stabilizing its finances and operations and rebuilding and expanding its business, Commissioner Atkins improved its share value for the remaining investors by almost 2000%.

From 1990-94, Commissioner Atkins served on the staff of two former chairmen of the SEC, Richard C. Breeden and Arthur Levitt, ultimately as executive assistant and counsellor, respectively. Under Chairman Breeden, he assisted in efforts to improve regulations regarding corporate governance, enhance shareholder communications, strengthen management accountability through proxy reform, and decrease barriers to entry for small businesses and middle market companies to the capital markets. Under Chairman Levitt, he was responsible for organizing the SEC's individual investor program, including the first investor town hall meetings, an SEC consumer affairs advisory committee, and other investor education efforts, including the original Invest Wisely brochures regarding the fundamentals of the retail brokerage relationship and mutual fund investment.

Commissioner Atkins began his career as a lawyer in New York City, focusing on a wide range of corporate transactions for U.S. and foreign clients, including public and private securities offerings and mergers and acquisitions. He was resident for 2½ years in his firm's Paris office and admitted as conseil juridique in France in 1988.

A member of the New York and Florida bars, Commissioner Atkins received his J.D. from Vanderbilt University School of Law in 1983 and was Senior Student Writing Editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review. He received his A.B. from Wofford College in 1980 and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Originally from Lillington, North Carolina, Commissioner Atkins grew up in Tampa, Florida. He is married with three sons, aged 11, 9, and 5.

Jason Benderly
Benderly Economics

Ben S. Bernanke
Chair
Council of Economic Advisers

Ben S. Bernanke was sworn-in on June 21, 2005 as Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. Prior to his appointment to the Council, Dr. Bernanke served as a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

Dr. Bernanke was born on December 13, 1953, in Augusta, Georgia. He received a B.A. in economics in 1975 from Harvard University (summa cum laude) and a Ph.D. in economics in 1979 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Before becoming a member of the Board, Dr. Bernanke was the Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Economics and Public Affairs and Chair of the Economics Department at Princeton University (1996-2002). Dr. Bernanke had served as a Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton since 1985.

Dr. Bernanke has published many articles on a wide variety of economic issues, including monetary policy and macroeconomics, and he is the author of several scholarly books and two textbooks. He has held a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Sloan Fellowship, and he is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Bernanke served as the Director of the Monetary Economics Program of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and as a member of the NBER's Business Cycle Dating Committee. Dr. Bernanke's work with civic and professional groups includes having served two terms as a member of the Montgomery Township (N.J.) Board of Education.

Dr. Bernanke and his wife, Anna, have two children.

Richard B. Berner
Chief US Economist
Morgan Stanley

Dick Berner is a Managing Director and Chief US Economist. He is responsible for directing the firm's forecasting and analysis of the US economy and financial markets. Before joining Morgan Stanley in 1999, Dick was Executive Vice President and Chief Economist at Mellon Bank Corporation and a member of Mellon Bank's Senior Management Committee. Previously, he served as a Principal and Senior Economist for Morgan Stanley, as a Director and Senior Economist for Salomon Brothers, as Economist for Morgan Guaranty Trust Company, and as Director of the Washington, DC, office of Wharton Econometrics. Dick also served as Economist for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, where he co-directed the Fed's model-based forecasting efforts. He has been an adjunct professor of economics at Carnegie Mellon University and at The George Washington University.

Dick holds a bachelor's degree from Harvard College and a doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania. He conducted dissertation research under SSRC-Ford Foundation grants at both the University of Louvain, Belgium, and at the University of Bologna, Italy. Dick is a past president of the National Association for Business Economics and the Board of Advisors of Macroeconomic Advisers, LLC.

Jeff Black
Mercer Human Resource Consulting

Norman R Bobins
Chairman, President, and CEO
LaSalle Bank Corporation

Norman R. Bobins is chairman, president and chief executive officer of LaSalle Bank. He is also president and chief executive officer of LaSalle Bank Corporation, the parent of LaSalle, head of Midwest Commercial Banking for LaSalle Bank Corporation, and senior executive vice president of ABN AMRO Bank N.V. He is also vice chairman of LaSalle Bank Midwest N.A., a subsidiary of LaSalle Bank Corporation. He is a member of the Board of Directors for LaSalle Bank Midwest N.A.

Mr. Bobins joined The Exchange National Bank of Chicago in April 1981, as senior executive vice president and chief lending officer. (The Exchange was acquired by LaSalle National Corporation in 1990.) He came to The Exchange from American National Bank and Trust Company where he was senior vice president, holding various commercial lending positions over 14 years.

Active in numerous civic organizations, Mr. Bobins holds directorships with the American-Israel Chamber of Commerce & Industry and the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, which honored him with its Distinguished Service Award in 1982. Other awards include the American Jewish Committee's 1992 Human Rights Medallion, the National REIA Fall Conference's 1995 Wexler Award, the 1997 Keshet Rainbow Award, the 1997 CANDO Person of the Year Award, the 1998 Midtown Educational Foundation Reach for Excellence Award, the DePaul University 1999 Business Leadership Award, the 2000 Harold Washington College Business Professional of the Year Award, the 2000 Jane Addams Hull House Medal, the Southwest Organizing Project Anti-Predatory Lending Award 2001, and the Boys & Girls Clubs 2002 Chairman's Award.

Mr. Bobins is the former Chairman of the Board at the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce. In January 1999, Governor Ryan appointed him to The Governor's Commission on the Status of Women in Illinois. He recently joined the executive board of the Auditorium Theatre Council, and the boards of directors of the Terra Foundation for the Arts and the newly formed Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Foundation. He continues to serve as a member of the Board of Education of the City of Chicago, where he was re-appointed in June 2002 to a third, four-year term. He is a member of the board of trustees of WTTW Communications, Inc., The Field Museum and the Illinois Business Roundtable. He is also a trustee of the University of Chicago Hospitals. In addition, he serves on The Council on the Graduate School of Business at The University of Chicago, is a member of the Kellogg Graduate School of Management Advisory Board, The Neighborhood Rejuvenation Partners Advisory Committee, and serves on the boards of Spertus College, and the Executive Council of Chicago Metropolis 2020.

His corporate involvement includes the chairmanship of the Chicago Clearing House Association, the board of trustees of CenterPoint Properties Trust, the board of directors of Braun Consulting, Inc., and directorships at RREEF America REIT II, Inc. and Transco, Inc. In addition, he is a member of the American Bankers Association Board of Directors; the Banker's Club of Chicago, serving most recently as president; The Financial Services Roundtable and the Civic Committee of The Commercial Club of Chicago. He is a former member of the Federal Advisory Council.

Mr. Bobins earned his B.S. from the University of Wisconsin in 1964 and his M.B.A. from The University of Chicago in 1967. He and his wife, Virginia, reside in Chicago.

Michael Bond
Senior Fellow in Health Care Policy, The Buckeye Institute (Ohio)
Professor, Department of Finance, Cleveland State University

Michael Bond, Ph.D., is the Senior Fellow in Health Care Policy at The Buckeye Institute, Professor of Finance at Cleveland State University and adjunct lecturer at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. He has taught health care finance along with numerous other courses. He is an active consultant and has worked with over 150 law firms and companies on numerous issues. His work on Medical Savings Accounts (MSAs) and health-care policy reform has received national attention and appeared in a wide range of professional and popular publications, including Health Care Financial Management, Public Personnel Management, Compensation and Benefits Review, Benefits Quarterly, and Business Horizons. Along with over 70 articles and presentations, he is the author of the nation's first practical guide to establishing MSAs (published by The Buckeye Institute in 1997). He also co-authored a guide to reforming Medicaid using a market based plan (published by the Buckeye Institute in 2003). This resulted in the establishment of a Medicaid Commission in Ohio that adopted many of the proposals in their final report. The State of Florida recently proposed Medicaid reforms based on his “Insurance & Provider Exchange Model.” Mike earned his Ph.D., M.A. and B.A. in economics from Case Western Reserve University and serves as an advisor on Medicaid to South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford.

Richard A. Brown
Chief Economist
FDIC

Heinz-Jürgen Büchner
Vice President, Economics and Research
IKB Deutsche Industriekreditbank

Dr.Heinz-Jürgen Büchner is Vice President, Economics and Research, at IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG in Düsseldorf.

He has been with IKB since September, 1990. Prior to that, he was with the Landesbank Rehinland-Pfalz in Mainz, and from 1981 to 1987 was an Assistant Professor at the Economics Department of the University of Bonn.

John Calverly
American Express, London AG

Kathleen Camilli
President
Camilli Economics

Kathleen Camilli is one of the nation’s top economic forecasters and independent economists. Her firm, Camilli Economics, provides clients, including investment organizations, corporations, high net worth individuals and family offi ces, with “real world” economic guidance for smart business and fi nancial decisions. Building on her more than two decades of accomplished private and public sector experience, Ms. Camilli provides “on target” analysis on the workings of the U.S. economy and financial markets. Armed with a solid foundation of global macro/micro economic perspectives, she offers unique insight into complex issues and translates those into understandable, actionable ideas.

Known for her consistently accurate forecasting, Kathleen Camilli is one of the leading economists in the country today and has received top ranking from objective performance raters, including The Wall Street Journal, who named her one of the top fi ve economic forecasters two years in a row; Business Week, who named her the number one performing forecaster, and Institutional Investor.

Before founding Camilli Economics in 2004, Ms. Camilli was the U.S. Economist at Credit Suisse Asset Management (CSAM) in New York where she provided insight on the U.S. economy to the fi rm’s investment process overseeing $312 billion in fi xed income and equity assets globally. Before joining CSAM, she was Tucker Anthony’s Director of Economic Research for six years. During her career, she has worked as a money market economist at Drexel Burnham Lambert, and as a Fed-watcher at Chase Manhattan Bank. She began her career at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York where she trained as a practicing economist and was responsible for forecasting reserves for the Open Market Desk.

Kathleen Camilli received B.A. degrees in both Economics and French from Douglass College, Rutgers University. She studied at Universite de Laval, Quebec, Canada and Universite de Paris III, VII, France. She earned an M.B.A. in Finance and an M.A. in French Studies from New York University.

A frequent commentator, author and speaker, Kathleen Camilli is well known as a strong communicator and translator of complex issues into understandable, actionable ideas. She appears regularly on CNN, CNBC, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Nightly Business Report and Bloomberg Business News. She has been quoted in the financial press, including The Wall Street Journal, New York Times and USA Today.

Felix Carabello
Associate Director, Alternative Investment Products
Chicago Mercantile Exchange

Joseph Carson
Alliance Capital

Guy Caruso
Administrator
U.S. Energy Information Administration

In February 2002, President Bush nominated Guy F. Caruso to the position of Administrator of the Energy Information Administration (EIA), a statistical agency within the United States Department of Energy (DOE) that provides policy-independent data, forecasts and analyses regarding energy. Mr. Caruso has acquired over 30 years of energy experience, with particular emphasis on topics relating to energy markets, policy and security.

He first joined DOE as a Senior Energy Economist in the Office of International Affairs and soon became the Director of the Office of Market Analysis. Other leadership roles held by Mr. Caruso during his tenure at DOE include: Director, Office of Oil and Natural Gas Policy, Office of Domestic and International Energy Policy and Director, Office of Energy Emergency Policy Evaluation. Prior to joining DOE, Mr. Caruso worked at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as an International Energy Economist in the Office of Economic Research.

Mr. Caruso recently served as the Executive Director of the Strategic Energy Initiative Project, under the Energy and National Security Program of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) a position he had held since 1998. CSIS is a private, nonpartisan organization dedicated to providing world leaders with strategic insights on, and policy solutions, to current and emerging global issues.

Moreover, before joining EIA, Mr. Caruso was also the Director of the National Energy Strategy (NES) project for the United States Energy Association (USEA). During this time, Mr. Caruso spearheaded the USEA publication "Toward a National Energy Strategy," which was released in February 2001 and a follow up study entitled, "National Energy Strategy Post 9/11" which was released in July 2002.

Mr. Caruso has worked at the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA), first as the Head of the Oil Industry Division where he was responsible for analyzing world oil supply/demand and developments in the oil industry; and later, as Director of the Office of non-members Countries where he directed studies of energy-related developments.

Mr. Caruso holds a B.S. in Business Administration and an M.S. in Economics from the University of Connecticut. He also earned a Masters of Public Administration from Harvard University. Guy Caruso and his wife, Donna, reside in Virginia. They have two daughters, Dawn and Lisa.

Patrick Casey
Director of Business Forecasting
TTX Company

Patrick Casey is director of business forecasting and planning for TTX Company. Pat started his transportation career with Chessie System Railroads in 1983. He worked for Chessie and its successor, CSX, for 17 years in forecasting, market research and marketing. Pat joined TTX in his current position in May of 2000.

John H. Cochrane
Professor of Finance
University of Chicago

John H. Chochrane is the Myron S. Scholes Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.

His selected publications include: Asset Pricing (Princeton University Press, 2004). With Monika Piazzesi, "Bond Risk Premia" American Economic Review 95, 138-160 (2005). "The Risk and Return of Venture Capital," Journal of Financial Economics 75, 3-52 (2005). "Money as Stock," Journal of Monetary Economics 52, 501-528 (2005). With John Y. Campbell, "By Force of Habit: A Consumption-Based Explanation of Aggregate Stock Market Behavior," Journal of Political Economy 107, 205-251.

He has also served as Research associate and Asset Pricing Program Director, National Bureau of Economic Research. He is the Past editor of the Journal of Political Economy. He is the past associate editor of Journal of Business, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Monetary Economics. He was: the Visiting Professor of Finance, UCLA Anderson School of Management, 2000-01; Department of Economics, University of Chicago: 1985-94; Council of Economic Advisers, Junior Staff Economist, 1981-82.

He has an S.B. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkley.

Steve G. Cochrane
Managing Director
Economy.com

Steven Cochrane is a Managing Director at Economy.com. Dr. Cochrane is responsible for the firm's regional forecasts and analysis and is a frequent speaker at Economy.com conferences and other trade association conferences. Dr. Cochrane holds the Ph.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

Robert T. Crow
Editor
Business Economics

Richard M. Daley
Mayor
City of Chicago

Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley has earned a national reputation for his innovative, community-based programs to address education, public safety, neighborhood development and other challenges facing American cities. A former state senator and county prosecutor, Daley was elected Mayor on April 4, 1989, to complete the term of the late Harold Washington, and was re-elected in 1991, 1995, 1999 and 2003 by overwhelming margins.

Richard Michael Daley was born in Chicago April 24, 1942, the fourth of seven children and the eldest son of the late Mayor Richard J. Daley and his wife Eleanor. He graduated from De La Salle Academy and earned undergraduate and law degrees from DePaul University and began his public service career in 1969 when he was elected to the Illinois Constitutional Convention. From 1972 to 1980 he served in the Illinois Senate, where he led the fight to remove the sales tax on food and medicine, sponsored landmark mental health legislation and established rights for nursing home residents.

Daley was elected State's Attorney of Cook County in 1980. He pushed successfully for tougher state narcotics laws and raised the conviction rate dramatically. He helped overhaul Illinois' antiquated rape laws to obtain more convictions and developed programs to combat drunk driving, domestic violence and child support delinquencies. Re-elected States Attorney in 1984 and 1988, Daley was the first Cook County official to sign a decree eliminating politically motivated hiring and firing. Daley and his wife Maggie are the parents of three children, Nora, Patrick and Elizabeth. A son Kevin died in 1981 at the age of three.

Robert H. Dugger
Managing Director
Tudor Investment Corporation

Robert H. Dugger is a Managing Director of Tudor Investment Corporation, a global funds management company participating in major debt, equity, currency, and commodity markets worldwide.

He was previously Director for Policy and Chief Economist at the American Bankers Association, where he led the panel of nationally recognized bank officers to develop a plan to deal with the U.S. savings and loan crisis.

The report of the panel proposed establishing the Resolution Trust Corporation and served as the starting point of the efforts in 1989 to deal with the S&L problem.

Mr. Dugger also served as the Chief Economist of the Senate Banking Committee and Senior Staff Member of the Financial Institutions Subcommittee of the House Banking Committee.

He has also held various positions with the Federal Reserve Board.

Mr. Dugger is a member of the board of directors of Generations United and a commissioner of the CSIS Global Aging Initiative.

Mr. Dugger received his BA from Davidson College and his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Arne Duncan
CEO
Chicago Public Schools

On June 26, 2001, Mayor Richard M. Daley named Arne Duncan Chief Executive Officer of the Chicago Public Schools.  Mr. Duncan was previously Deputy Chief of Staff for the Chief Executive Officer.

Arne Duncan currently serves on the Boards of the Ariel Education Initiative, Bold Chicago, Chicago Cares, The Children’s Center, the Golden Apple Foundation, the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence, Jobs for America ’s Graduates, Junior Achievement, the Dean’s Advisory Board of the Kellogg School of Management, the National Association of Basketball Coaches’ Foundation, Scholarship Chicago and the South Side YMCA. He also serves on the Visiting Committee for the University of Chicago ’s School of Social Service Administration .  He was a fellow in the Leadership Greater Chicago’s class of 1995, and a member of the Aspen Institute’s Henry Crown Fellowship Program, Class of 2002. In May of 2003, he received an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Lake Forest College .

Arne Duncan graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1987, majoring in sociology. He was co-captain of Harvard’s basketball team and was named a first team Academic All-American. From 1987-1991, Mr. Duncan played professional basketball in Australia , where he also worked with children who were wards of the state.

Arne Duncan returned to Chicago in 1992 to direct the Ariel Education Initiative, which seeks to create outstanding educational opportunities for inner-city children on the City’s South Side.  In 1998, he joined the Chicago Public Schools.

Robert F. Duvall
President and CEO
National Council on Economic Education

D r. Robert F. Duvall came to the National Council on Economic Education (NCEE), headquartered in New York City, as President and Chief Executive Officer in the spring of 1995. Prior to joining NCEE, he was President of Pacific University in Oregon for twelve years.

NCEE is the nation’s premier proponent of economic and financial literacy, and works as an independent, non-profit and non-partisan organization through a unique nationwide network of affiliated state Councils and university-based Centers focused on teacher training and curriculum development. Through the NCEE, Duvall leads the charge to improve the effective teaching of basic and applied principles of economics and personal financial decision-making skills in the nation’s schools, K-12, and also internationally, with the goal of preparing every young person for a successful life in the “real” world. 

Under Duvall’s direction and leadership, NCEE has developed an award-winning new publications program; created innovative initiatives to extend reach and impact via the Internet; written and published Voluntary National Content Standards in Economics; and conducted the first National Summit on Economic and Financial Literacy, with the Federal Reserve, in 2002. 

Duvall has become a national, and international, spokesman for the cause of improving economic and financial education, as a core component of the pre-college curriculum. He has addressed numerous conferences of education and business leaders, testified for Senate and House Committees, and been interviewed on ABC, CNBC, CBS Market Watch, National Public Television and Radio, and numerous talk shows on both television and radio.

During his twelve-year tenure as President of Pacific University, enrollment was increased by 50 percent, the endowment was increased four-fold, and five new buildings were constructed for core academic programs.

Duvall has his Ph.D. from The Claremont Graduate University, and has published and lectured nationally on issues in education. He has served on the faculty and administration of Pitzer College, Claremont, California; Rollins College, Florida; and the University of Pennsylvania, and was a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University, England, in 1992. Duvall serves on the Board of Directors for The Tiffany Consort and on the Board of Advisors for Camilli Economics LLC.

Charles L. Evans
Director of Research and Senior Vice President
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Charles L. Evans is director of research and senior vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Mr. Evans serves as chief economist and a member of the Management Committee. He oversees the Bank’s research in monetary policy, banking and financial markets, and regional economics. In addition, he has supervisory responsibility for the Bank’s consumer and community affairs units. Mr. Evans also serves as an associate economist on the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), the group responsible for formulating national monetary policy.

Prior to appointment as research director in July 2003, Mr. Evans served as vice president and senior economist in the economic research department with responsibility for the macroeconomics research group. His research has focused on measuring the effects of monetary policy on U.S. economic activity, inflation and financial market prices. His research has been published in the Journal of Political Economy, American Economic Review, Journal of Monetary Economics, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the Handbook of Macroeconomics. In addition to his work at the Chicago Fed, he has taught at the University of Chicago and the University of Michigan. Prior to joining the Chicago Fed in 1991, he was an assistant professor of economics at the University of South Carolina. Mr. Evans received a BA in economics from the University of Virginia and a PhD in economics from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

Hubert Fromlet
Chief Economist
Swedbank

Hubert Fromlet is chief economist at Swedbank, Stockholm, and professor at Blekinge Institute of Technology. He received his MBA and Ph.D. from the University of Wurzburg. Prior to joining Swedbank, he was chief economist at Co-operative Bank, Stockholm and responsible for macro research at the SAAB-SCANIA, Sweden.

Claire L. Gaudiani
New York University

Claire L. Gaudiani is currently a Professor at The George H. Heyman, Jr. Center for Philanthropy and Fundraising at New York University's School of Continuing and Professional Studies. Prior to accepting this position, Dr. Gaudiani was a Senior Research Scholar at the Yale Law School where she worked to complete a book entitled The Greater Good: How Philanthropy Drives the American Economy and Can Save Capitalism. This book, published by New York Times-Henry Holt, with a September 10, 2003 publication date, addresses a wide audience with stories from American history, and data and survey results that illustrate the book's thesis: that Americans are not generous because we are rich, but rich because we are generous. See more about The Greater Good.

Dr. Gaudiani served for 13 years as President of Connecticut College. Under her leadership from 1988-2001, Connecticut College quintupled its endowment and rose in the influential U.S. News and World Report survey from No. 41 to the mid-20's. Applications for admission rose a total of 40 percent over the last five years. A Decade of Achievement sets forth the achievements of Connecticut College people, programs, and policies from 1988-1998, under Dr. Gaudiani's leadership.

Dr. Gaudiani served for five years as the volunteer president of the non-profit New London Development Corporation and remains on the Board of the corporation, which is dedicated to building the tax base, creating jobs and improving the quality of life for all citizens of New London. Since 1997, this corporation has worked with the City Council, the State of Connecticut, Pfizer, Inc., and many citizens and developers. Pfizer opened its new $300 million Global Research & Development Facility on June 8, 2001 adding 2,100 jobs and a dramatic change to New London's tax base. The NLDC has received an Annie E. Casey Foundation grant (among other funds) to support its Social Justice initiatives to improve early and K-8 education after-school programs, housing, and job-readiness for New London's citizens.

Dr. Gaudiani holds a Ph.D. and master's degree in French literature from Indiana University and a bachelor's degree, also in French, from Connecticut College. She has served on the boards of numerous for-profit and not-for-profit enterprises including the The Henry Luce Foundation, MBIA Inc., the Shubert Theatre, the Connecticut Center for School Change, Connecticut Legal Services Advisory Board, Public Radio International, and Citizens Bank. She is a trustee of WPI (Worcester Polytechnic Institute.) She was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was also elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and as a fellow of the PBK Society. She was also elected to the Century Association. She has received ten honorary doctorates.

Dr. Gaudiani is the author of six books and monographs and more than 80 articles. She is a frequent speaker both nationally and internationally on topics related to education, philanthropy, ethics, and the role of colleges in civil society.

C. Peter Giuliano
Executive Communications Group

Peter Giuliano is the Founder and Chairman of Executive Communications Group.

A recognized expert in leadership communication, Peter has worked with top corporations in the United States and Europe, including Compaq, Unilever, Ericsson, TRW, Hoffmann-La Roche, and Corning Incorporated.

Peter is a frequent guest speaker at international meetings and symposia and is often a featured commentator on national television and radio.

Most recently he was an on-air analyst of the 2004 Presidential Debates featured on the Fox News Network programs Fox and Friends and Your World With Neil Cavuto.

Peter's related article "Promoting the Presidential Message" appeared in the Winter 2004 issue of The Public Relations Strategist magazine.

Robert F. Graboyes
Professor of Health Economics
University of Richmond

Dr. Robert F. Graboyes is a health economist whose work revolves around the question, "How much is a less-than-100% chance at life worth?"

As a professor of health economics at a major medical campus, Dr. Graboyes asks this almost unthinkable question to his students, most of whom are physicians, medical researchers, and other health care professionals. He helps them struggle toward coherent answers, and they help him do the same.

Dr. Graboyes' work has taken him to four continents. As Chase Manhattan Bank's economist for sub-Saharan Africa, he traveled all over Africa and Europe. Medical crises in Africa helped spark his interest in health economics; AIDS was one of many plagues beginning in those years to breathe death across the continent. Fortunately, his only brush with local health care came late one night when soldiers on a desolate road asked him and a driver to transport a woman, far into labor, to a dismal hospital in Monrovia, Liberia. Years later, Dr. Graboyes lectured at a college of public health in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and - to his surprise - found the ex-Soviet doctors had a better grasp on economics than their counterparts in the United States.

Writing is a source of pride for Dr. Graboyes. He began adult life not as an economist, but a student of literature - primarily of Latin America and the Southern U.S. Never wishing to escape that legacy, he seasons his economic writings with literary allusions. As an economist with the Federal Reserve Bank, Dr. Graboyes created, edited, and wrote Equilibria magazine whose purpose was, he says, "to translate serious economics into English - and make it enjoyable."

Languages, too, are a special passion for Dr. Graboyes, who, in addition to English, speaks French, Spanish, and Portuguese (and a few other languages to a lesser degree). When he's not doing economics, Dr. Graboyes is an accomplished jazz, Latin, and classical musician.

Dr. Graboyes has a Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University. In addition, he has a bachelor's from the University of Virginia and master's from the College of William and Mary, Columbia University, and Virginia Commonwealth University/Medical College of Virginia.

Today, Dr. Graboyes is an Associate Professor at the University of Richmond's Robins School of Business and also at Virginia Commonwealth University's School of Allied Health Professions and the University of Virginia's School of Nursing. He serves as Chair of the Health Economics Roundtable of the National Association for Business Economics.

Alan Greenspan
Chairman, Board of Governors
Federal Reserve System

Alan Greenspan took office June 19, 2004, for a fifth term as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Dr. Greenspan also serves as Chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee, the System's principal monetary policymaking body. He originally took office as Chairman and to fill an unexpired term as a member of the Board on August 11, 1987. Dr. Greenspan was reappointed to the Board to a full 14-year term, which began February 1, 1992, and ends January 31, 2006. He has been designated Chairman by Presidents Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and Bush.

Dr. Greenspan was born on March 6, 1926, in New York City. He received a B.S. in economics (summa cum laude) in 1948, an M.A. in economics in 1950, and a Ph.D. in economics in 1977, all from New York University. Dr. Greenspan also has performed advanced graduate study at Columbia University.

From 1954 to 1974 and from 1977 to 1987, Dr. Greenspan was Chairman and President of Townsend-Greenspan & Co., Inc., an economic consulting firm in New York City. From 1974 to 1977, he served as Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers under President Ford, and from 1981 to 1983, as Chairman of the National Commission on Social Security Reform.

Dr. Greenspan has also served as a member of President Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board, a member of Time magazine's Board of Economists, a senior adviser to the Brookings Panel on Economic Activity, and a consultant to the Congressional Budget Office.

His previous Presidential appointments include the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, the Commission on Financial Structure and Regulation, the Commission on an All-Volunteer Armed Force, and the Task Force on Economic Growth.

Before his appointment to the Board, Dr. Greenspan served as a corporate director for Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa); Automatic Data Processing, Inc.; Capital Cities/ABC, Inc.; General Foods, Inc.; J.P. Morgan & Co., Inc.; Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York; Mobil Corporation; and The Pittston Company.

His noncorporate positions have included Member of the Board of Trustees, The Rand Corporation; Director, Institute for International Economics; Member of the Board of Overseers, Hoover Institution (at Stanford University); and Vice Chairman and Trustee, Economic Club of New York.

Dr. Greenspan has served as Chairman of the Conference of Business Economists, President and Fellow of the National Association of Business Economists, and Director of the National Economists Club.

Dr. Greenspan has received honorary degrees from Harvard, Yale, Pennsylvania, Leuven (Belgium), Notre Dame, Wake Forest, Colgate, and Edinburgh universities. His other awards include the Thomas Jefferson Award for the greatest public service performed by an elected or appointed official, presented by the American Institute for Public Service, 1976 (joint recipient with Dr. Arthur Burns and William Simon); election as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, 1989; decorated Legion of Honor (Commander) France, 2000; honorary Knight Commander of the British Empire, 2002; and he was the first recipient of the Gerald R. Ford Medal for Distinguished Public Service, 2003.

David W. Greising
Chicago Tribune

David Greising is chief business correspondent for the Chicago Tribune. He began this role as the Tribune’s lead writer on globalization and the intersection of politics, business and economics in September of 2003.

Prior to his current assignment, Greising was the front-page Business columnist in the Chicago Tribune for five years beginning in October, 1998. Greising’s column gave Tribune readers timely, thought-provoking and lively commentary on news of the business world. While focusing primarily on Chicago area business, Greising also commented on significant national and international stories as business news warranted. He covered the Seattle WTO riots, Enron hearings in Washington, the Andersen trial from Houston, and reported from South Korea the week the U.S. revealed North Korea had restarted its nuclear program.

Greising joined the Tribune from Business Week, where he was Atlanta bureau chief and previously, Chicago correspondent. Prior to this, he was a business reporter and columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times. He is the author of two books: I’d Like the World to Buy a Coke: The Life and Leadership of Robert Goizueta and Brokers, Bagmen and Moles: Fraud and Corruption in the Chicago Futures Market, co-authored by Laurie Morse.

In broadcast journalism, Greising is business contributor to “848,” the news magazine program at National Public Radio’s Chicago affiliate, WBEZ-FM. He appears frequently on “Chicago Tonight,” the nightly news program the Public Broadcasting System’s Chicago affiliate, WTTW. He also is a regular guest on WGN radio and television.

Robert Grunewald
Economic Analyst
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Andrew F. Haughwout
Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Andy Haughwout is a Research Officer in the Microeconomic and Regional Studies Function. He is Editor of the Journal of Regional Science. Prior to joining the New York Fed, Mr. Haughwout served as Assistant Professor at Princeton University. He holds a BA from Swarthmore College and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania.

His fields of interest include Urban economics, Public finance, and Infrastructure, Microeconomics

Maurine Haver
President
Haver Analytics

Maurine is President and founder of Haver Analytics Inc., an economic consulting and information services company. Prior to starting Haver Analytics in 1978, she was an economist in the economic forecasting group of General Electric in New York, a member of the International Staff of Companie Bull General Electric in Paris and a consultant in the Foreign Currency Exposure Management Group of the Chase Manhattan Bank in London.

Maurine served as President of the National Association of Business Economists (1994-95) and now chairs the NABE campaign for Quality Economic Data that she initiated during her year as president. In her role as Chair of the NABE Statistics Committee, she testifies before Congress on statistical issues, conducts quarterly meetings which bring together producers and users of federal statistics and organizes seminars to help users better understand the statistics available from government and private sources.

Maurine chairs the Business Research Advisory Council of the Bureau of Labor Statistics and is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Bureau of Economic Analysis. She has served as secretary of the Forecasters Club of New York since 1992. She is a past president of the New York Association for Business Economics (1989-90), the Downtown Economists Club (1993-94) and the Money Marketeers of New York University (1998-99). She chaired the board of the Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics (COPAFS) during 2001-2003. She currently serves on the board of Mutual of America and is a member of the American Economic Association, the American Statistical Association and the National Economists Club.

Maurine holds a B.S. in Economics and Mathematics from Michigan State University, an M.B.A. from the Stern School of New York University and completed her oral exam for a PhD in International Economics at NYU.

James A. Hayes
Consultant, New Mexico

James J. Heckman
Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics
University of Chicago

James Heckman was born in Chicago in 1944 and educated at Colorado College (B.A. Math, 1965) and Princeton University (Ph.D., Economics, 1971). He is the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago where he has served since 1973. He is director of the Economics Research Center at the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago, Director of the Center for Social Program Evaluation at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, and a Senior Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation.

Heckman’s work has been devoted to the development of a scientific basis for economic policy evaluation. In the course of this work he has made contributions to economic theory and to econometrics, with special emphasis on models of individuals (or disaggregated groups, such as organizations or firms) and to the problems, and possibilities created by heterogeneity, diversity and unobserved counterfactual states. His work uses data on individuals and firms to test economic theory and it uses economic theory to solve problems in microdata analysis. He has developed the economics and econometrics of lifecycle dynamic models to study unemployment, wage growth and skill formation over the lifecycle. He has developed new tools for analyzing microeconomic data on firms and families. His methods for correcting for biased samples and for constructing policy counterfactuals are widely used. They use economic theory to guide the construction of counterfactual states. He has applied these tools to analyze the impact of civil rights and social action on the economic status of African Americans; to analyze the role of regulation in affecting productivity and employment in many countries around the world; to analyze the determinants and consequences of labor incomes and income inequality, the consequences of tax policy and to develop methods for analyzing the pricing of labor services and the determinants of lifecycle skills.

Some of his recent books include:

Inequality in America: What Role for Human Capital Policy? , J. Heckman and A. Krueger, eds. forthcoming MIT Press, 2003.

Evaluating Human Capital Policy: (The Gorman Lectures) Princeton University Press, 2004.

Law and Employment: Lessons From Latin America and the Caribbean (with C. Pages), forthcoming, University of Chicago Press, 2003.

Incentives in Government Bureaucracies: Can Incentives in Bureaucracies Emulate Market Efficiency? (Brookings, 2004).

Devon Herrick
Senior Fellow
National Center for Policy Analysis

Stuart G. Hoffman
Senior Vice President and Chief Economist
PNC Financial Services Group

Stuart G. Hoffman is senior vice president and chief economist for The PNC Financial Services Group and serves as the principal spokesperson on all economic issues for PNC. Recently, Hoffman was named by BusinessWeek as the most accurate economic and interest rate forecaster of 2004. In addition, he has been recognized as the second most accurate forecaster by the National Association for Business Economics and in The Wall Street Journal’s economic survey covering the 1988 to 2002 period.

Hoffman joined PNC in 1980 after a six-year tenure with the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. He became vice president and senior economist for PNC in 1987 and was elected senior vice president and chief economist in 1991.

Hoffman is frequently quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Barron’s, BusinessWeek and USA Today. He is a regular guest on CNBC, CNN, Bloomberg TV, The Wall Street Journal Radio Report and CNN News Radio. He is regularly interviewed by the Associated Press and Reuter’s news wire services. He is often quoted in regional media such as the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Philadelphia Inquirer.

In addition, Hoffman has regularly participated in the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Jackson Hole Symposium, where he discusses key economic issues with Chairman Alan Greenspan and other global monetary policymakers.

Hoffman is the vice president and a member of the Board of Directors of the National Association for Business Economics (NABE). He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Partnership for Economic Education and the Economic Club of Pittsburgh--the local chapter of NABE.He is the past chairman of the American Bankers Association Economic Advisory Committee that met semi-annually with Chairman Greenspan and other Federal Reserve Board Governors.

Hoffman is a 1971 graduate of Pennsylvania State University. He received a master's degree in 1973 and a doctorate degree in economics in 1975, both from the University of Cincinnati, where he was a Charles Phelps Taft Memorial Fellow. In 2004, the University of Cincinnati honored him as a Distinguished Alumni.

Douglas Holtz-Eakin
Director
Congressional Budget Office

Douglas Holtz-Eakin is the sixth Director of the Congressional Budget Office, where he was appointed for a four-year term beginning February 4, 2003. Dr. Holtz-Eakin previously served for 18 months as Chief Economist for the President's Council of Economic Advisers, where he also served as Senior Staff Economist in 1989 and 1990.

Dr. Holtz-Eakin is Trustee Professor of Economics at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University, where he has served as Chairman of the Department of Economics and Associate Director of the Center for Policy Research. He also has served as editor of the National Tax Journal, associate editor of the Journal of Human Resources, and as a member of the editorial board for Public Budgeting & Finance, Economics and Politics, Journal of Sports Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics, and Public Works Management and Policy.

In the past, he has held academic appointments at Columbia University and Princeton University. Since 1985, he has been a faculty research fellow and research associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research. From 1996 to 1998, he served as a member of the Economics Advisory Panel to the National Science Foundation. He also has worked as a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He has been a consultant to the New Jersey State and Local Expenditure and Revenue Policy Commission, the State of Arizona Joint Select Committee on State Revenues and Expenditures, and the New York State Office for the Aging. He has also served as the Executive Director, Tax Study Commission, New York State Assembly.

Dr. Holtz-Eakin has a long-standing and broad interest in the economics of public policy. He has studied the role of federal taxes in home ownership, the contribution of inventories to the business cycle, and a wide variety of topics in state and local government finance. Much of his research has centered on the economics of fundamental tax reform, productivity effects of public infrastructure; income mobility in the United States; and the role of families, capital markets, health insurance, and tax policy in the start-up and survival of entrepreneurial ventures.

Harry Homan
Senior Director, Strategic Development
Fluor Corporation

Harry Homan is currently Senior Director, Strategic Development, Fluor Corporation.

Fluor is one of the world’s largest publicly owned engineering, procurement, construction and maintenance organization, with annual revenues of approximately $10 billion.

Harry leads a team which identifies opportunities arising from changes in the external environment; looks at how to enhance the company’s overall competitive position; and coordinates the company’s strategic planning process. He also helps the business units test the robustness of their plans and develop strategic options, appraises enterprise risk and advises the corporation on portfolio issues.

Harry has a BS in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois and an MBA from the University of Southern California. His responsibilities at Fluor have included economic forecasting, marketing research and planning, technology development, finance & administration, business & competitor intelligence and strategic planning. Prior to joining Fluor he spent two years with DuPont in product and process development.

Harry is currently chairman of NABE’s Corporate Planning Roundtable. He is active in a variety of professional associations including the National Business Economic Issues Council and Association for Strategic Planning, and previously served on the Conference Board Association of Strategic Planning Executives and as chairman of the Southern California section of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

Gene Huang
Chief Economist
FedEx Corporation

Yasheng Huang
Associate Professor of International Management
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management

Yasheng Huang is an associate professor in the area of international management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He joined MIT in 2003. His previous appointments include assistant professor at the University of Michigan, associate professor at Harvard University, and consultant to the World Bank. Professor Huang's research focuses on international business, political economy, and institutional issues. His recently published book, Selling China (Cambridge University Press, 2003) examines the institutional drivers of foreign direct investment (FDI) in China. Unlike many other studies of FDI in China, this book shows that some of the inefficiencies of China's financial and legal institutions have served to drive up FDI inflows. The principal effect of these inefficiencies is a lowering of the average level of competitiveness of domestic firms, which creates a number of propitious conditions for foreign firms. Professor Huang is extending this way of looking at FDI-examining the competitiveness of domestic firms-to other countries by analyzing the institutional environment for local firms and entrepreneurship. He is currently working on projects on private sector development in China and in India and is writing several papers on the institutional determinants of foreign ownership and FDI.

David Johnson
Assistant Commissioner for Consumer Prices and Price Indexes
Bureau of Labor Statistics

David S. Johnson serves as the Assistant Commissioner for Consumer Prices and Price Indexes at the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). In that position he is responsible for all production, development, and dissemination activities in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) program. He also represents BLS on matters relating to price measurement generally and the CPI in particular.

Mr. Johnson has worked at BLS since 1990; first as a research economist in the Division of Price and Index Number Research, and recently as the Chief of the Division. In this capacity, he wrote several journal articles on such topics as the measure of consumption inequality and mobility, equivalence scale estimation, specification testing, and the well-being of children. He has published articles in the American Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, The Review of Income and Wealth, and Monthly Labor Review.

During his tenure at BLS, he has been active in several interagency groups, such as the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics. He is also active in the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth, the International Association for Research on Income and Wealth, and the Ottawa Group on Price Indexes.

Mr. Johnson has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Minnesota, and he received his Bachelors degree in mathematics and economics from the University of Puget Sound. He has been an adjunct faculty for the Georgetown Public Policy Program, and taught economics at the University of Minnesota. He lives in Alexandria with his wife and their three children.

Dale W. Jorgenson
Samuel W. Morris University Professor
Harvard University

Dale W. Jorgenson is the Samuel W. Morris University Professor at Harvard University. He received a BA in economics from Reed College in Portland, Oregon, in 1955 and a PhD in economics from Harvard in 1959. After teaching at the University of California, Berkeley, he joined the Harvard faculty in 1969 and was appointed the Frederic Eaton Abbe Professor of Economics in 1980. He has directed the Program on Technology and Economic Policy at the Kennedy School of Government since 1984 and served as Chairman of the Department of Economics from 1994 to 1997.

Jorgenson has been honored with membership in the American Philosophical Society (1998), the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1989), the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (1978), and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1969). He was elected to Fellowship in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1982), the American Statistical Association (1965), and the Econometric Society (1964). He was awarded honorary doctorates by Uppsala University (1991), the University of Oslo (1991), Keio University (2003), and the University of Mannheim (2004).

Jorgenson served as President of the American Economic Association in 2000 and was named a Distinguished Fellow of the Association in 2001. He was a Founding Member of the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy of the National Research Council in 1991 and has served as Chairman of the Board since 1998. He also served as Chairman of Section 54, Economic Sciences, of the National Academy of Sciences from 2000 to 2003 and was President of the Econometric Society in 1987.

Jorgenson received the prestigious John Bates Clark Medal of the American Economic Association in 1971. This Medal is awarded every two years to an economist under forty for excellence in economic research. The citation for this award reads in part:

Dale Jorgenson has left his mark with great distinction on pure economic theory (with, for example, his work on the growth of a dual economy); and equally on statistical method (with, for example, his development of estimation methods for rational distributed lags). But he is preeminently a master of the territory between economics and statistics, where both have to be applied to the study of concrete problems. His prolonged exploration of the determinants of investment spending, whatever its ultimate lessons, will certainly long stand as one of the finest examples in the marriage of theory and practice in economics.

Jorgenson has conducted groundbreaking research on information technology and economic growth, energy and the environment, tax policy and investment behavior, and applied econometrics. He is the author of 240 articles in economics and the author and editor of twenty-seven books. His collected papers have been published in ten volumes by The MIT Press, beginning in 1995. His most recent book, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND THE AMERICAN GROWTH RESURGENCE, co-authored with Mun Ho and Kevin Stiroh and published by The MIT Press in 2005, represents a major effort to quantify the impact of information technology on the U.S. economy. Another MIT Press volume, LIFTING THE BURDEN: Tax Reform, the Cost of Capital, and U.S. Economic Growth, co-authored with Kun-Young Yun in 2001, proposes a new approach to capital income taxation, dubbed “A Smarter Type of Tax” by the FINANCIAL TIMES. 

 Sixty-five economists have collaborated with Jorgenson on published research. An important feature of Jorgenson's research program has been collaboration with students in economics at Berkeley and Harvard. Many of his former students are professors at leading academic institutions in the United States and abroad and several occupy endowed chairs. The MIT Press published ECONOMETRICS AND THE COST OF CAPITAL, edited by Lawrence J. Lau, in 2000. This contains essays in honor of Jorgenson presented at a conference at Harvard by thirteen of his former students. It also contains his biography, a list of his publications, and a list of his sixty-four Ph.D. thesis advisees at Berkeley and Harvard through 2000.

Jorgenson was born in Bozeman, Montana, in 1933 and attended public schools in Helena, Montana. He is married to Linda Mabus Jorgenson, who is an attorney in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Professor and Mrs. Jorgenson reside in Cambridge. Their daughter Kari, 30, is an honors graduate of Harvard College in economics, Class of 1997, a graduate of Columbia Law School, Class of 2003, and an Associate at Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale and Dorr in Boston. She is married to Kenneth Beausang. Their son Eric, 32, is a graduate of Duke University in biology, Class of 1995, and received an M.S. in statistics in 1999 and a Ph.D. in human genetics in 2004 from Stanford University. He is a post-doctoral fellow in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco.

Steve Kerch
Assistant Managing Editor
MarketWatch

Steve Kerch, Assistant Managing Editor / Personal Finance and real estate editor, oversees MarketWatch coverage of consumer-oriented financial stories and maintains the sites Personal Finance page and six sub-channels. He worked for 21 years at the Chicago Tribune as a reporter and editor, serving as the newspaper's real estate group editor from 1998 to 2001 before joining MarketWatch in February 2001.

David W. King
Mesirow Financial Consulting, LLC

Kevin Kliesen
Economist
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Kevin L. Kliesen is an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, where he has been employed since October 1988. He came to the Bank after graduating from Colorado State University with an M.A. in Economics. As a business economist, the bulk of his duties comprise reporting on and analyzing current U.S. and international macroeconomic developments and trends. Previously, he was part of the Research Department's Regional Economics group.

In that capacity, he monitored developments in the automotive, agricultural, and natural resources sectors. In his capacity as a business economist, he writes the Bank's monthly Report on Economic Activity, an internal report on general economic conditions, which is prepared prior to each Board of Directors meeting. An important aspect of this position also involves speaking to the general public about the U.S. economy, monetary policy developments and the economic outlook. Besides writing for the Regional Economist, a quarterly publication written for a nontechnical audience, he also writes for the Review, which is the Bank's peerreviewed economic journal. He has also written for professional economics journals, and he has authored several book reviews.

He is a member of the American Economic Association and the National Association for Business Economics (NABE). He was President of the St. Louis Gateway Chapter of NABE from 1999 to 2000. He is currently serving a threeyear term on the Board of the Directors of the national NABE organization. In addition to his interests in business economics and monetary policy, he is also interested in the long-term fiscal problems facing the United States.

Kris Kridel
WBBM Noon Business Hour

Kris Kridel is midday co-anchor and co-host of WBBM's Noon Business Hour. As anchor-reporter at WBBM, Kris has won awards for Best Reporter, Feature, Newscast and Documentary from AP and UPI; a 1991 National Headliner Award; Peter Lisagor and RTNDA reporting awards.

Her writing and reporting were featured in Ted White's 1993 book, "Broadcast Newswriting and Reporting." Kris received her Master's Degree in Journalism from Ohio State University in the Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Reporting. Before joining WBBM, she worked as reporter-anchor and news director at WFYR in Chicago and taught broadcast journalism at Loyola University.

Randall S. Kroszner
University of Chicago

Randall S. Kroszner is Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.

His research interests include: International and domestic banking and financial institutions and their regulation; conflicts of interest in financial services firms; corporate governance, international financial crises; sovereign debt defaults; political economy; monetary economics.

He was a member of Council of Economic Advisers, Executive Office of the President. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate, November 2001, and served until June 2003. He is also Director, George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State.

He has a Sc.B. magna cum laude (applied mathematics-economics), Brown University, 1984; M.A., Harvard University, 1987; Ph.D. (economics), Harvard University, 1990.

Ron Krupitzer
Senior Director
American Iron and Steel Association

Steve Liesman
Senior Economics Reporter
CNBC

As CNBC’s Senior Economics Reporter, Steve Liesman reports on all aspects of the economy including the Federal Reserve Bank and major economic indicators. He appears on “Squawk Box” (M-F, 7-10 a.m. ET), as well as other CNBC programs throughout the Business Day.

Liesman joined CNBC from The Wall Street Journal where he served as a senior economics reporter covering monetary policy, international economics, academic research and productivity. At the Journal, Liesman previously worked as an energy reporter and, from 1996-98, as the Journal’s Moscow bureau chief. He was a member of the reporting team recognized with a Pulitzer Prize for stories chronicling the crash of the Russian financial markets.

Prior to joining the Journal in 1994, Liesman was the business editor for The Moscow Times, where, as the founding business editor for the country’s first English language daily newspaper, he helped create the publication’s stock index, which was the country’s first. Liesman has also worked as a business reporter for both the St. Petersburg Times in St. Petersburg, Fl., and The Sarasota Herald-Tribune in Sarasota, Fl.

Liesman holds a Masters of Science from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a B.A. in English from the State University of New York, Buffalo.

Christopher Lofgren, Ph.D.
President and Chief Executive Officer
Schneider National, Inc.

Chris Lofgren is president and chief executive officer at Schneider National Inc., a premier provider of transportation, logistics and related services.

Dr. Lofgren joined Schneider Logistics in 1994 as vice president of engineering and systems. He later served as chief information officer and chief operating officer of Schneider National and was named president and chief executive officer of Schneider National in 2002.

Before joining Schneider National Inc., Dr. Lofgren held positions at Symantec Corporation, Motorola and CAPS Logistics. He holds a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in industrial and management engineering from Montana State University and a doctorate in industrial and systems engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology.

George Magliano
Director of Automotive Research
Global Insight

George Magliano is responsible for overseeing Global Insight’s North and South American Automotive Forecasting Services, as well as the U.S. Regional Light-Vehicle Forecasting Services and related project work. He has focused on the automotive industry since 1989, when he joined Economic Consulting and Planning (ECAP) as director of Consumer Research.

Magliano became director of Automotive Research when ECAP was acquired by WEFA, Inc. several years later. For WEFA, he supervised all global automotive research, primarily specializing in forecasting North American vehicle sales and production, as well as many Asian countries. Magliano also has developed models of international trade flows for vehicles and parts and conducted studies of the U.S. aftermarket. In addition, he has directed studies involving customer segmentation, price elasticity, and the outlook under alternative forecast scenarios.

Prior to joining ECAP and WEFA, Magliano was the senior corporate economist for J.P. Stevens, one of the world's largest manufacturers of textiles. While there, he was responsible for all economic and industry forecasting and assisted in the development of the annual corporate business plan.

Magliano was educated at St. Francis Collage (Bachelor of Arts) and Fordham University (Mastr of Arts). He is also a member of the National Association of Business Economists, New York Association of Business Economists, and the Society of Automotive Analysts.

Catherine L. Mann
Senior Fellow
Institute for International Economics

Dr. Catherine L. Mann has been a senior fellow at the Institute for International Economics since 1997. Previously, she served as assistant director of the International Finance Division at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors; senior international economist on the President's Council of Economic Advisers at the White House; and adviser to the chief economist at the World Bank.

Her current work focuses on the economic and policy issues of global information, communications, and technology, particularly with reference to the US economy, labor market, and international trade. Her recent Institute policy brief "Globalization of IT Services and White-Collar Jobs: The Next Wave of Productivity Growth" and forthcoming book High-tech and Globalization in America address these issues.

She is author or coauthor of two books that focus on the policy foundations for effective use of technology for domestic development and external competitiveness. The New Economy and APEC (2001) was presented to and endorsed by APEC Leaders at their meeting in Shanghai, China. Global Electronic Commerce: A Policy Primer (2000) uses general analysis and specific examples from field research in more than 10 countries to address how the Internet and electronic commerce affect policymaking, with particular focus on infrastructure and policy issues of taxation, privacy, security, intellectual property, and trade negotiations. In addition she directs a project funded by the Ford Foundation to support collaborative research comparing Asian and Latin American countries on how technology affects entrepreneurship, government, education and skills, and financial intermediation. She has delivered keynote speeches and engaged in projects on technology and policy in China, Thailand, Vietnam, Taiwan, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Morocco, Tunisia, South Africa, as well as in Australia, Canada, Finland, Germany, and New Zealand.

She also studies broader issues of US trade, the sustainability of the current account, and the exchange value of the dollar. Published in 1999, Is the US Trade Deficit Sustainable? answers perennial questions about the impact of global integration on the US economy and the dollar. A Journal of Economic Perspectives (2002) article reviews concepts of sustainability, including the role of international financial markets and international trade in services, topics also addressed in "How Long the Strong Dollar?" in Dollar Overvaluation and the World Economy , edited by John Williamson and C. Fred Bergsten, and in "The US Current Account, New Economy Services, and Implications for Sustainability" in the Review of International Economics.

In addition to her work at the Institute, Dr. Mann taught for 10 years as adjunct professor of management at the Owen School of Management at Vanderbilt University and two years at the Johns Hopkins Nitze School for Advanced International Studies, among other university courses. Dr. Mann received her PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her undergraduate degree is from Harvard University.

Rosemary Marcuss
Deputy Director
Bureau of Economic Analysis
President
National Association for Business Economics

Rosemary Marcuss is the Deputy Director of the US Bureau of Economic Analysis and the President of NABE. She was a member of the Board of Directors of NABE from 2000 to 2003.

From 1983 to 1998, she was the Assistant Director for Tax Analysis, U.S. Congressional Budget Office (CBO), where she was responsible for Congressional tax receipts forecasts and tax policy analysis. She has also been: Senior Manager and Economist, Data Resources, Inc.; Assistant to the President, American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees; junior staff member, Council of Economic Advisers; Director, National Tax Association; Member: District of Columbia Tax Revision Commission.

She has a Ph.D. University of Maryland, where she had a National Science Foundation Fellowship.

Walter S. McManus
Director, Office for the Study of Automotive Transportation
University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute

Walter S. McManus, an expert on alternative drive powertrains and automotive forecasting, was recently appointed Director of OSAT. His business career includes nine years at General Motors where he developed models to forecast vehicle sales, created visual information tools to stimulate new product development and spent a year as a manufacturing supervisor in a component factory. He joined J.D. Power and Associates in 1999 as Executive Director, Forecasting and Analytics. While at J.D. Power he developed a variety of forecasting auto sales models in most markets worldwide and at GM, he conducted research on new automotive technologies and their impact on society and the environment, the market potential of hybrids and diesel-powered vehicles, and automotive product and brand portfolio strategies.

McManus earned a Bachelor of Arts in economics from Louisiana State University (LSU) in 1977. He was awarded his PhD in 1983 from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).He was awarded the Sidney Stern Fellow and a Foundation for Research in Economics and Education Fellow. His fields of specialization were econometrics, industrial organization, and labor economics

A member of the American Economic Association (AEA), the National Association of Business Economics (NABE), the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), and the Society of Automotive Analysts (SAA), he is an economics research and analysis executive with a record of influential research and a history of leadership accomplishments. He is regularly invited to speak to industry, policy, and research organizations. He is widely cited as an authority on the automotive industry in the business and general media.

James Meil
Chief Economist
Eaton Corporation

Michael H. Moskow
President
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

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 Advisers.

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, semiconductors, and aircraft. 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 is the chairman of the National Bureau of Economic Research, vice chairman of the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, and the former chairman of The Economic Club of Chicago. He also serves as a director of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City, the Northwestern Memorial Foundation, World Business Chicago, and the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce. 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.

In addition to being a trustee of Lafayette College, Mr. Moskow is a member of the Advisory Board to the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He is also a member of the Visiting Committee of the Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago.

Mr. Moskow was born in Paterson, New Jersey. He received an A.B. in economics from Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, in 1959, and a Ph.D. in business and applied economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1965. He and his wife, Connie, have three married children and five grandchildren.

Paul Murray
Munich Capital Markets

Paul is the Weather and Commodity Risk Portfolio Manager for Munich American Capital Markets.  The portfolio consists of options and structured derivative transactions based on a variety of weather and weather-related indices globally. Weather–related commodities in the portfolio include Natural Gas and Heating Oil.

Prior to his role at MACM, Paul was in charge of weather derivative trading in Europe for Enron Europe and subsequently  traded weather derivatives and natural gas options  for Goldman Sachs, London.  From 1996 to 2001, Paul was a founding member of Castlebridge Partners, LLC. a Chicago-based derivative consulting and trading firm.

Paul has a background in both exchange-traded and OTC derivatives as well as alternative risk transfer corporate products for AIG and Marsh. He has been a frequent invited guest speaker on the subject of capital markets and derivatives and has co-authored articles on alternative pricing methodologies in commodity markets 1.

He holds an MBA in Finance from the University of Notre Dame and a BA in Economics from St. Vincent College as well as Post Graduate Work at the University of Chicago dedicated to forward and options contracts.

Lloyd Nace
Strategic Business Analyst
American Standard

Brian O’Hearne
President
Weather Risk Management Association

Yorgos Papatheodorou
Lockwood Greene

Sara B Potter CFA
Product Manager Economic Data
FactSet Research Systems, Inc

John C. Robertson
Regional Economist
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

John C. Robertson is an assistant vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. He is the team leader for the regional research and Latin American groups at the Atlanta Fed, and is one of the Bank’s senior monetary policy advisers.

Dr. Robertson joined the Atlanta Fed’s research department in January of 1998 from The Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. His research has been published in many distinguished economics journals.

A native of Dunedin, New Zealand, Dr. Robertson holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. He earned his Ph.D. in economics from Virginia Tech in 1992.

Michael Robinet
Vice President
CSM Worldwide

Michael Robinet has been Vice President, Global Vehicle Forecasts  for CSM Worldwide since summer of 2002.  His responsibilities include global sales, capacity and production forecasting, future product program intelligence, platform and component commonization trends, OEM strategies, country-level market analysis as well as supplier and OEM facility rationalization issues.  He has been with CSM since 1996 when he joined as Director of Forecast Services.

Mr. Robinet has over 16 years of experience in automotive forecasting, strategic analysis and finance.  He has been widely quoted on a variety of topics surrounding global light vehicle production issues by major print, radio and television media worldwide. 

Michael has an honors undergraduate degree in macro and developmental economics and an MBA, both from the University of Windsor, Canada.  Prior to joining CSM Worldwide, he worked at various automotive research companies and was schooled in finance at a major Tier 1 supplier.

He is an active on various committees of the APMA of Canada and is a member of the Detroit section of the Society of Automotive Engineers, Automotive Press Association and the Society of Automotive Analysts.

James F. Rodgers
Blue Cross Blue Shield of America

Desiree G. Rogers
President
Peoples Gas and North Shore Gas

David Rosa
Senior Vice President -- Global Brand Manager
Monster Worldwide, Inc.

Since 1999, David Rosa has had leadership responsibility for all aspects of Monster Worldwide’s corporate marketing activities, including brand management of products and services worldwide; advertising, promotion, and event management; leadership communications and government relations; internal and external communications; and public relations and media relations. In addition, his team is responsible for instilling Monster Worldwide’s values into the company's practices and operations, and for coordinating its corporate affairs initiatives. Mr. Rosa has also held key marketing and leadership positions within the Company’s TMP Worldwide Advertising & Communications division. These include: Vice President, Regional Manager with responsibilities directing two regional offices in its South Eastern region, managing the recruitment advertising programs for major national and international clients; and International Marketing Manager where he was responsible for unifying the division’s client services activities across its 28 offices around the world. Prior to joining Monster Worldwide, Mr. Rosa was Deputy Publisher, Marketing & Advertising, for Noticias del Mundo, a leading daily Spanish-language newspaper owned and operated by News World Communication. He also served as Vice President and Manager of Account Services at Font & Vaamonde Advertising, Inc., a division of Grey Advertising.

Mr. Rosa is a graduate of Westminster College, where he earned Bachelor of Arts Degrees in Communications and Spanish

Harvey Rosenblum
Executive Vice President
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

John C. Rother
Group Executive Officer of Policy and Strategy
AARP

John Rother is the Group Executive Officer of Policy and Strategy for AARP. He is responsible for the federal and state public policies of the Association, for international initiatives, and for formulating AARP's overall strategic direction. He is an authority on Medicare, managed care, long-term care, Social Security, pensions and the challenges facing the boomer generation.

Prior to coming to AARP in 1984, Mr. Rother served eight years with the U.S. Senate as Special Counsel for Labor and Health to former Senator Jacob Javits (R-NY), then as Staff Director and Chief Counsel for the Special Committee on Aging under its Chairman, Senator John Heinz (R-PA).

He serves on several Boards and Commissions, including Generations United, the National Health Care Quality Forum, the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, National Academy on Aging, and Civic Ventures.

He is a frequently quoted in the news, and regularly presents at conferences and congressional briefings. Throughout 1996, Mr. Rother was on special sabbatical assignment to study the consumer implications of the managed care revolution and the economic challenges facing the boomer generation.

John Rother is an honors graduate of Oberlin College and the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Andrew A. Samwick
Professor of Economics
Dartmouth College

Andrew Samwick is Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College, and is also the director of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center, a position he began on July 1, 2004. At Dartmouth since 1994 , Samwick was on leave during the 2003-2004 academic year in Washington, D.C., serving as the chief economist on the staff of the President's Council of Economic Advisers.

A specialist in Social Security reform, he is the author of many scholarly articles and reviews in fields ranging across the spectrum of economics. His work has appeared in The American Economic Review, The Journal of Political Economy, The Journal of Finance, and other journals. His commentary with Dartmouth Professor of Economics and Medicine Jonathan Skinner on 401(k) plans appeared in USA Today. He has been a consultant for the Canadian government, the U.S. Social Security Administration, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, and the World Bank. On three occasions Samwick has offered Congressional testimony on Social Security and retirement issues.

In 2000, he was the recipient of Dartmouth's Karen E. Wetterhahn Award for Distinguished Creative or Scholarly Achievement. He is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and the co-organizer of its Social Security Working Group. Samwick earned his doctorate in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1993 and his undergraduate degree summa cum laude in economics from Harvard, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, in 1989.

Thomas R. Saving
Trustee
Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds

Thomas R. Saving is the Director of the Private Enterprise Research Center at Texas A&M University. A University Distinguished Professor of Economics at Texas A&M, he also holds the Jeff Montgomery Professorship in Economics. Dr. Saving received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and served on the faculty at the University of Washington, Seattle and Michigan State University before moving to Texas A&M University in 1968. Dr. Saving’s research has covered the areas of antitrust economics, monetary economics, health economics, the theory of the banking firm, and the general theory of the firm and markets. He has served as a referee or as a member of the editorial board of the major United States economics journals and is currently co-editor of Economic Inquiry. His current research emphasis is on the benefit of markets in solving the pressing issues in health care and Social Security. He is the co-editor of Medicare Reform: Issues and Answers, University of Chicago Press, 1999 and the co-author of The Economics of Medicare Reform, W. E. Upjohn Institute, 2000, in addition to many articles in professional journals and two influential books on monetary theory. Dr. Saving has been elected to the post of President of the Western Economics Association and President of the Southern Economics Association and President of the Association of Private Enterprise Education. In 2000 Dr. Saving was appointed by the President to the Board of Trustees of the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds. On May 2, 2001 Dr. Saving was named to the President’s Social Security Commission.

Joachim Scheide
Professor
Kiel Institute of World Economics

Marshall J. Schmitt
Partner
Jenner & Block

Marshall J. Schmitt is a partner in Jenner & Block’s Chicago office.  He is a member of the Firm’s Intellectual Property Practice.  With a deep and varied background in physical and organic chemistry, Mr. Schmitt is especially well qualified to resolve disputes involving complicated scientific issues and to counsel clients in chemical and biotechnology matters.

Mr. Schmitt’s experience encompasses many subject matters including: patent; trade secrets; trademark; unfair competition; antitrust; False Claims Act; government contracts (including terminations for default); cable television franchising; insurance coverage; and dissolution of partnerships and professional corporations.  Mr. Schmitt also has extensive experience in criminal matters representing indigent clients pro bono, including  several death penalty cases. 

Mr. Schmitt has extensive trial experience in a wide range of civil and criminal matters.  He has participated in major trials in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois; the United States District Courts for the Northern District of Illinois, the Southern District of New York, the Eastern District of Missouri; and the United States Court of Federal Claims.  He also has litigated cases in the California Superior Courts (Los Angeles and San Diego).  He has argued appeals before the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, the California Court of Appeals, and the Wisconsin Court of Appeals and participated in other appeals before the Illinois Appellate Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court.

Mr. Schmitt is a member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago, the American Bar Association, the Illinois State Bar Association, the Chicago Bar Association and the DuPage County Bar Association.  He is a member of the Litigation, Intellectual Property, and Antitrust Law Sections of the American Bar Association and a former chairperson of the Antitrust and Unfair Competition Section Council of the Illinois State Bar Association.

Mr. Schmitt’s publications and other professional credentials include: “Long-Distance Fluorescence Quenching by Electron Transfer in Rigid Solutions,” Journal of American Chemical Society, 1982, 104, 6488 (co-author); “Private Enforcement, Antitrust and Unfair Competition (Under Illinois Law and Practice),” Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education (co-author) (1996); and United States Patent No. 4,537,985, Process for the Manufacture of 1,4-Bis [2-(4’-Carbomethoxystyrenyl Benzene)] (co-inventor).

Mr. Schmitt is extremely active in his local community, where he has pursued many volunteer projects.  In 2001, he was elected as a member of the Downers Grove (Illinois) Elementary School District 58 Board of Education.  Mr. Schmitt is an avid runner, having completed many marathons in the United States and Europe.
 
Mr. Schmitt obtained his B.S. degree in chemistry from the University of Chicago, Phi Beta Kappa, in 1980 and his J.D. degree from Harvard Law School, cum laude, in 1983.  At Harvard, he was an active member of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau.  He has been admitted to practice in Illinois (1983) and before the United States District Courts for the Northern District of Illinois (1984), including the trial bar (1987), the Eastern District of Michigan (2004), and the Northern District of California (San Francisco Division), the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (1986), and the United States Court of Federal Claims (1995).  He is also registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office as a Patent Attorney (2002).

Loren C. Scott
President
Loren C. Scott Associates

Dr. Scott is the President of Loren C. Scott & Associates, Inc., an economic consulting firm whose clients include such large national firms as BellSouth, Bank One, ExxonMobil, and a diversity of others such as Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association, Placid Oil Refinery, the Louisiana Chemical Association, Lake Charles Memorial Hospital, the Louisiana Judicial Compensation Commission, and the Coushatta Indian Tribe.

His career started at Louisiana State University in 1969 where he spent the next 33 years, rising through the ranks from assistant professor to the prestigious Freeport McMoran Endowed Chair of Economics and the Director of the Division of Economic Development and Forecasting.

Over the thirteen-year period from 1983-96, he was the chairman of the Economics Department at LSU. During that time, the Department's ranking among the 3,000 economics departments in the U.S. rose from 101st to 35th. He is presently Professor Emeritus at LSU and continues to teach in the Executive MBA and LSU Executive Programs. He received 7 awards at LSU for outstanding classroom teaching.

Dr. Scott is co-developer of the Louisiana econometric (e-con-o-met'-rick) model, a model used for providing annual forecasts of the Louisiana economy, which are released each September. He has been a co-investigator on over $1 million in grant research at LSU and is the author of over 75 articles and technical reports. He gives 50-70 speeches a year on the state of the economy.

Thomas F. Siems
Senior Economist
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Thomas F. Siems is senior economist and policy advisor in the Research
Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.  He also teaches various
operations research, business and economics courses in the School of
Engineering at Southern Methodist University.  He earned a B.S.E. from The
University of Michigan, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from SMU.  He has
published more than 50 articles in various academic journals, books and
Federal Reserve publications.  He has also published four children’s books
and plans to release another, The Dangerous Pet, very soon.

Tracy Shilobrit
Manpower, Inc.

Xiaobing Shuai
Senior Economist
Chmura Economics & Analytics

Xiaobing Shuai joined Chmura Economics & Analytics in March, 2004. His duties include model building and forecasting regional and macroeconomic trends. His interest rate forecasts are published in the Blue Chip Financial Forecasts, while his forecasts for housing market activities are published in Housing Market Report. His research with CEA also includes regional economic development, workforce development, and other labor market related issues. Previously he worked as a senior analyst with Capital One Financial Corporation in Richmond. His expertise includes credit risk management, NPV analysis, and econometric modeling.

Xiaobing is a native of China and graduated from Fudan University in Shanghai. He pursued graduate study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he obtained the M.A. in Agricultural Economics and the Ph.D in Economics. His thesis, Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries: Motives, Structures, and Impacts was awarded the Henry Taylor Doctoral Dissertation Award. His papers have been published in International Economic Journal and Environment and Development Economics.

John Silvia
Chief Economist
Wachovia Bank N.A.

Dr. John Silvia joined Wachovia in February 2002 as chief economist for the Bank.  Previously, John worked on Capitol Hill as senior economist for the U.S. Senate Joint Economic Committee and chief economist for the U.S. Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee.  Prior to that, he was chief economist of Kemper Funds and managing director of Scudder Kemper Investments, Inc.  Before joining Kemper Funds, John worked for Harris Bank and taught economics at Indiana University.

John holds a B.A. and a Ph.D. degree in economics from Northeastern University in Boston and has a Master’s degree in economics from Brown University in Providence, RI.

John serves as a member of the Blue Chip Panel of Economic Forecasters and also serves on an informal advisory group for the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.  He is a member of the Economic Advisory Committee at the American Bankers Association and is President of the Charlotte Economics Club.  In the past, John has served on economic advisory committees to the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and the Public Securities Association.

In addition, John is Treasurer and a member of the Board of Directors for The Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina, a Charlotte civic association. He is also a member of the Business Advisory Committee for the City of Charlotte and he serves on the President’s Council for Charlotte’s Central Piedmont Community College.

Michael A. Steinberg
Senior Vice President
AccuWeather

Michael A. Steinberg is a Senior Vice President of AccuWeather, where he interacts in a wide variety of scientific, tactical and strategic areas.

On a scientific level, Mr. Steinberg is program manager for AccuWeather’s radar and satellite products and has written the specifications and managed the development of many other AccuWeather systems, including the first operational digital forecast database, the AccuWeather Forecast Engine™.  Mr. Steinberg is also co-developer of a patented multifactor temperature index and patent-pending probability of precipitation and severe weather indices.

In business development, Mr. Steinberg oversees AccuWeather’s bids and proposals, and develops new business and product initiatives domestically and internationally.  He also serves as the project manager for a number of AccuWeather clients, including several states’ Department of Transportation and is the program manager for AccuWeather’s television forecast service.

Mr. Steinberg has also served as Director of AccuWeather’s R&D activities, acting Marketing Director, Director of M&A and acting CFO.  He is AccuWeather’s Facilities Security Officer and has Secret Clearance. 

While in high school, Mr. Steinberg forecasted for a local radio station and newspaper.  He received a B.S. in Atmospheric Science from Cornell University in 1974 and an M.S. in Meteorology from The Pennsylvania State University in 1976.  Mr. Steinberg worked as an operational forecaster for FleetWeather from 1976-78, then joined AccuWeather in 1978, initially working as a forecast meteorologist.  As a forecaster, he specialized in predictions of snow and ice for highway departments, schools and other weather-sensitive clients, served as Director of AccuWeather’s Snow Warning Service from 1981-1991 and as Executive Director since 1991.

Mr. Steinberg has been a member of the AMS since 1970 and is also a member of the NWA and CMOS.  He has served on the AMS Economic Development Committee since 2001.  Mr. Steinberg has presented or co-authored more than fifty papers at AMS and NWA and has been a featured speaker for more than 20 organizations, ranging from the National Association of Broadcasters to the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers.  He has also led training programs for government agencies ranging from The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to the New Jersey State Department of Transportation.

Charles Steindel
Senior Vice President
Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Charles Steindel is a Senior Vice President in the Macroeconomic and Monetary Studies Function. He oversees the Group's analysis and forecasts of U.S. economic conditions. His research interests include consumer spending and saving and productivity growth. He has served as president of the Money Marketeers of New York University and the Forecasters Club of New York. He received his bachelor's degree from Emory University and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institure of Technology.

His fields of interest include Chain weighting measuring gdp, Consumer behavior, Cycle capital spending balance sheet, Growth and Productivity, Inflation estimates productivity growth, Investment, Manufacturing, Private saving, Productivity growth, Saving, Saving economic growth, Stock market consumption, and Tax rebate.

Ernie Stokes
President
Canadian Association for Business Economics

Thomas Kevin Swift
Chief Economist and Senior Director – Economics & Statistics
American Chemistry Council

A native of Buffalo, New York, Dr. Swift is a graduate of Ashland College with a BA degree and a graduate of Case Western Reserve University with a MA degree in Economics. He has also completed the Tax Analysis and Revenue Forecasting Program and other studies at Harvard University, as well as a DBA (doctorate in business administration) at Anglia Polytechnic University.

Dr. Swift is employed by the American Chemistry Council in Arlington, Virginia where he is responsible for economic and other analyses dealing with various business, trade, tax, energy, and related issues. He is also responsible for monitoring business conditions and industry structure, as well as identifying emerging trends. Dr. Swift is also involved in collection and dissemination of industry data, information and analysis to member companies, the media, and the public in general.

Prior to joining the American Chemistry Council, Dr. Swift held several executive and senior level positions at several business information/database companies, directing business research, forecasting, and consulting efforts as well as domestic and international business forecasting services and related on-line databases. He also conducted industrial market research and related projects. Dr. Swift started his career at Dow Chemical USA.

Dr. Swift is a member of the National Association for Business Economics (NABE) and is a member of NABE's panel of 40 professional forecasters and a participant in the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank's forecasters' survey. He is also a member of the Commercial Development and Marketing Association and the Société de Chimie Industrielle. Dr. Swift is also on the editorial advisory board of Chemical Management Review and has authored articles in such diverse journals as Business Economics, Chemistry Business, Chimica Oggi, Cost Engineering, and Hydrocarbon Processing, among others. He has also appeared on Bloomberg TV.

Diane Swonk
Chief Economist/Senior Managing Director
Mesirow Financial

Diane Swonk is a senior managing director and chief economist for Mesirow Financial, a diversified financial services firm based in Chicago. As one of the most sought-after economists in the world, Diane is called upon by policymakers and business leaders from Washington to Tokyo. Diane joined Mesirow Financial after 19 years with Bank One Corporation and its predecessors, most recently as director of economics/chief economist and senior vice president. She started her career with the legacy First Chicago Corporation in 1985 and quickly moved up the ranks, proving herself as a regional economist with her forecast for a renaissance in the Industrial Midwest just one year later. During her tenure there, Diane designed the bank's regional model, published several nationally acclaimed studies, managed the Bank One Corporate Economics Group and recently published her first book: The Passionate Economist: Finding the Power and Humanity Behind the Numbers, which is currently being translated into Chinese. In addition, she serves as a Clinical Professor for DePaul University's highly rated evening MBA program.

Diane sits on several advisory committees to the Federal Reserve Board, its regional banks, and the Council of Economic Advisers for the White House. She is among the most quoted economists in the financial press. Diane is seen regularly on national and international television and her commentary can be read in top financial news publications throughout the world. In fact, Chicago magazine once commented, "her name seems the very heartbeat of the business pages."

Diane has served on several boards including the National Association for Business Economics (NABE), the Finance Committee for the Executive Club of Chicago, and she is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Illinois Council on Economic Education. She is a past president of NABE, a title that Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and several Federal Reserve presidents have also shared. Diane was the youngest to serve as president in the association's history and continues to dedicate much of her time to improving the quality and timeliness of economic data, a critical aspect of policymaking.

Diane has earned many awards over her career. She was designated "Business Leader of the Year" by the YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago, named a "Fellow" of NABE for her outstanding contributions to the field of business economics, and listed as one of the top forecasters in the country by the Wall Street Journal. Today's Chicago Woman named her the "Top Woman in Finance in Chicago" and the Chicago Sun Times recently crowned her one of the most influential women in business in Chicago.

Diane earned both her bachelor's and master's degrees in economics with top honors from the University of Michigan. She also received a master's degree in finance and strategic planning with top honors from the University of Chicago. Diane has two children, ages 10 and 7.

Carl R. Tannenbaum
Chief Economist
LaSalleBank/ABN AMRO N.A.

Mr. Tannenbaum is the Chief Economist for LaSalle Bank Corporation, a $100 billion organization centered in Chicago. LaSalle is an affiliate of the ABN AMRO Bank of Holland, one of the world’s largest financial institutions.

In this capacity, Carl provides internal and external briefings on business conditions. He publishes weekly, monthly, and quarterly commentary for distribution to the bank's customers. He serves as a quote contact for a number of publications and provides commentary on business issues for CNBC, CNN, and other media outlets.

Mr. Tannenbaum is a member of the Blue Chip panel of economic forecasters and is Vice President of the National Association for Business Economics. In addition to his economic duties, Carl is also responsible for measuring the organization’s interest rate risk and monitoring its investment portfolio.

Mr. Tannenbaum has been with the organization for twenty-two years. He holds an M.B.A. and a B.A. in finance and economics from the University of Chicago.

Stoyan Tenev
Lead Economist for East Asia and Pacific
World Bank Group

Stoyan Tenev is the Lead Economist for East Asia and Pacific in the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank Group. He joined the World Bank in 1993 as an economist in the Development Policy Department. Stoyan Tenev has been working on China and East Asia since 1998 and has been in his current position since 2002. He has co-authored several books and articles on China and East Asian economies including China’s Ownership Transformation: Process, Outcomes, Prospects (2005),Corporate Governance and Enterprise Reform in China: Building the Institutions of Modern Markets (2002) andChina’s Emerging Private Enterprises (2000). His work has been featured in the financial press including Bloomberg, The Economist, China Business, China Business review, The Financial Times, and The Wall Street Journal.

Ross Thompson
Professor of Psychology
University of California at Davis

Ross Thompson is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Davis. His research interests are in two fields. As a developmental psychologist, he studies early parent-child relationships, the development of emotional understanding and emotion regulation, conscience development, and the growth of self-understanding. As a psycholegal scholar, he works on the applications of developmental research to public policy concerns, including the effects of divorce and custody arrangements on children, child maltreatment prevention, school readiness, research ethics, and early brain development and early intervention. Thompson is a founding member of the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child, and was a member of the Committee on Integrating the Science of Early Childhood Development of the National Academy of Sciences that produced the report, From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development (National Academy Press, 2000). He has twice been Associate Editor of Child Development, and is Consulting Editor for a series of topical texts in developmental psychology published by McGraw-Hill. His books include Preventing Child Maltreatment through Social Support: A Critical Analysis  (Sage, 1995),(edited with Paul Amato) The Postdivorce Family: Children, Families, and Society (Sage, 1999), and Toward a Child-Centered, Neighborhood-Based Child Protection System (edited with Gary Melton and Mark Small; Praeger, 2002). He also edited Socioemotional Development, based on the 1988 Nebraska Symposium on Motivation (University of Nebraska Press, 1990), and is coauthor of Infant-Mother Attachment (Erlbaum, 1985). He is currently working on Early Brain Development, the Media, and Public Policy (University of Nebraska Press) and Emotional Development (McGraw-Hill). He received his A.B. from Occidental College in 1976, his A.M. from the University of Michigan in 1979, and the Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Thompson has been a Visiting Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Education in Berlin, a Senior NIMH Fellow in Law and Psychology at Stanford University, and a Harris Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago. He has received the Boyd McCandless Young Scientist Award for Early Distinguished Achievement from the American Psychological Association, the Scholarship in Teaching Award and the Outstanding Research and Creative Activity Award from the University of Nebraska, where he was also a lifetime member of the Academy of Distinguished Teachers.

Cliff Waldman
Economist
Manufacturers Alliance

Cliff Waldman is an Economist with the Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI since 2003. He is the author of the research paper The Labor Market in Post-Reform China: History, Evidence, and Implications and of the Quarterly Forecast of U.S. Exports, Global Growth, and the Dollar. He is a participant in the Bloomberg News survey of economists.

Previously he has been President, Waldman Associates; Economist, National Federation for Independent Business (NFIB); Economist, New Jersey Department of Labor.

He has a B.A., Economics and English, from Rutgers University and an M.A., Economics, from Rutgers University.

Howard J. Wall
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Howard J. Wall is an assistant vice president and regional economics advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. His responsiblities include serving as the director of the St. Louis Fed’s Center for Regional Economics (CRE8). He received his B.A. from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1984 and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1986 and 1989, respectively. His principal research interests are in regional and international economics.

Mr. Wall joined the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis in 1998 from the Department of Economics at Birkbeck College, University of London. He went to Birkbeck in 1994 after beginning his academic career in 1988 in the College of Business and Economics at West Virginia University.

In addition, Mr. Wall was a senior Fulbright scholar at the Instituto de Economía de Montevideo, Uruguay, and spent the Spring of 2001 as a visiting scholar at the Institute of Monetary and Economic Studies at the Bank of Japan. While in London, he taught courses for the Bank of England, HM Treasury, and the Royal College of Defence Studies.

David J. Wierz
Principal
The OCI Group

Beth Anne Wilson
Senior Economist
Federal Reserve Board

Beth Anne Wilson is a senior economist in the International Finance Division of the Federal Reserve Board. She currently covers India and Korea and has followed emerging market issues for several years. During 2003-2004, she was senior economist for International Finance at the Council of Economic Advisers, and earlier work at the Board focused on U.S. labor markets. She has an active research agenda in areas including wage behavior, macroeconomic volatility, and finance. She received her PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1995.

David A. Wise
John F. Stambaugh Professor of Political Economy
Harvard University

David A. Wise, John F. Stambaugh Professor of Political Economy, came to the Kennedy School after graduate work in economics at the University of California at Berkeley. His past research includes analysis of youth employment, the economics of education and schooling decisions, and methodological econometric work. His work now focuses on issues related to population aging, and he directs a large project on the economics of aging and health care. His recent books and papers include: Social Security and Retirement Around the World; Frontiers in the Economics of Aging; Facing the Age Wave;Inquiries in the Economics of Aging; Social Security and Retirement Around the World: Micro-Estimation; The Transition to Personal Accounts and Increasing Retirement Wealth: Macro and Micro Evidence; Aging and Housing Equity: Another Look; Implications of Rising Personal Retirement Saving; The Taxation of Pensions: A Shelter Can Become a Trap; and Utility Evaluation of Risk in Retirement Saving Accounts.

Richard L. Wobbekind
Director, Business Research Division
University of Colorado

Richard Wobbelind is currently Associate Dean for External Relations, Associate Professor of Business Economics and Finance, and Director Business Research Division, Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado at Boulder.

Previously, he has worked at the Center for Business and Economic Forecasting at the University of Colorado and the Institute for Regional Affairs at Bucknell University. His work at both centers focused on regional economics and forecasting.

He is currently Chair of the NABE Regional Roundtable. He is Past President, Vice President and Secretary/Treasurer for the Denver Association for Business Economics (a NABE chapter), and has organized numerous sessions at the fall and spring conferences over the past three years.

He is currently Secretary/Treasurer AUBER (Association of University Business and Economics Research), and is Past President, AUBER. He has a BA Economics, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA; and MA and Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.

R. James Woolsey
Energy Future Coalition

R. James Woolsey joined Booz Allen Hamilton in July 2002 as a Vice President and officer in the firm’s Global Resilience practice, located in McLean, Virginia.  Previously Mr. Woolsey served in the U.S. Government on five different occasions, where he held Presidential appointments in two Republican and two Democratic administrations.  He was also previously a partner at the law firm of Shea & Gardner in Washington, DC, where he practiced for 22 years in the fields of civil litigation and alternative dispute resolution.

During his 12 years of government service Mr. Woolsey was:  Director of Central Intelligence from 1993 to 1995; Ambassador to the Negotiation on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), Vienna, 1989–1991; Under Secretary of the Navy, 1977–1979; and General Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services, 1970–1973.  He was also appointed by the President as Delegate at Large to the U.S.–Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) and Nuclear and Space Arms Talks (NST), and served in that capacity on a part-time basis in Geneva, Switzerland, 1983–1986.  As an officer in the U.S. Army, he was an adviser on the U.S. Delegation to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I), Helsinki and Vienna, 1969–1970. 

Mr. Woolsey is currently the Chairman of the Board of Freedom House and Co-Chairman (with former Secretary of State George Shultz) of the Committee on the Present Danger.  He is also Chairman of the Advisory Boards of the Clean Fuels Foundation and the New Uses Council, and a Trustee of the Center for Strategic & International Studies and the Center for Strategic & Budgetary Assessments.  He also serves on the National Commission on Energy Policy.  Previously, he was Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Regents of The Smithsonian Institution, and a trustee of Stanford University, The Goldwater Scholarship Foundation, and the Aerospace Corporation. He has also been a member of The National Commission on Terrorism, 1999–2000; The Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the U.S. (Rumsfeld Commission), 1998; The President’s Commission on Federal Ethics Law Reform, 1989; The President’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Management (Packard Commission), 1985–1986; and The President’s Commission on Strategic Forces (Scowcroft Commission), 1983. 

Mr. Woolsey is presently a principal in the Homeland Security Fund of Paladin Capital Group.  He also serves as Vice Chairman of the Advisory Board of Global Options LLC.  He has served in the past as a member of boards of directors of a number of other publicly and privately held companies, generally in fields related to technology and security, including Martin Marietta; British Aerospace, Inc.; Fairchild Industries; Yurie Systems, Inc.; and USF&G.  He also served as a member of the Board of Governors of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange.

Mr. Woolsey was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and attended Tulsa public schools, graduating from Tulsa Central High School.  He received his B.A. degree from Stanford University (1963, With Great Distinction, Phi Beta Kappa), an M.A. from Oxford University (Rhodes Scholar 1963–1965), and an LL.B from Yale Law School (1968, Managing Editor of the Yale Law Journal).

Mr. Woolsey is a frequent contributor of articles to major publications, and from time to time gives public speeches and media interviews on the subjects of foreign affairs, defense, energy, critical infrastructure protection and resilience, and intelligence. He is married to Suzanne Haley Woolsey and they have three sons, Robert, Daniel, and Benjamin.

David A. Wyss
Chief Economist
Standard & Poor’s

David A. Wyss is chief economist at Standard & Poor’s, based in New York. In this position, he is responsible for S&P’s economic forecasts and publications, and co-authors the monthly Equity Insight and the weekly Financial Notes. David joined Data Resources, Inc. in 1979 as an economist in the European Economic Service in London, which was acquired by McGraw-Hill. He came back to the United States in 1983 as Chief Financial Economist for DRI/McGraw-Hill, became chief economist for Standard & Poor’s DRI in 1992, and chief economist for Standard & Poor’s in 1999. Before joining DRI, Dr. Wyss was a Senior Staff Economist with the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Board, and Economic Advisor to the Bank of England.

Mine K. Yucel
Senior Economist/Vice President
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Mine K. Yücel is a senior economist and vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. As an energy economist and head of the Bank's regional group, she analyzes the regional economy and energy markets on an ongoing basis and has published numerous articles on energy and regional growth. Yücel is president of the United States Association of Energy Economics (USAEE) and the Dallas chapter of the National Association for Business Economics. She has served on the executive boards of the USAEE and the Dallas Chapter of Women in Technology International, Inc.

Before joining the Bank she was an assistant professor of economics at Louisiana State University. She has a B.S. and M.S. in mathematics from Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey and a Ph.D. in economics from Rice University in Houston, Texas.

Michael Zenker
Senior Director, North American Natural Gas
CERA

Michael Zenker heads Cambridge Energy Research Associates's North America Natural Gas service. Mr. Zenker leads CERA's research on the North American natural gas industry, delivering a fundamentals-based, independent assessment of the future business environment for natural gas, including the driving forces affecting the market, price dynamics, and emerging trends and technologies from the upstream (E&P), midstream, pipeline, marketing/trading, to end-use. He has over 15 years' experience in the energy industry, including extensive experience in the power sector . He assists clients with business strategy, asset valuation, LNG strategy, pipeline and storage capacity investment decisions and procurement strategy. Mr. Zenker contributes to CERA's quarterly North American Natural Gas Watch and the monthly natural gas market Midmonth Report. Previously, Mr. Zenker led a gas and power trading organization for Southern California Edison, where he was responsible for commodity trading, pipeline and storage asset management, contract management, and power plant dispatch. Mr. Zenker holds an MBA and a BS from the University of California.