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Session 19: Adam Smith Address
Michael Mussa, former economic counselor and director of research at the International Monetary Fund, will deliver NABE’s 27th annual Adam Smith Award lecture. He is currently a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and served as a member of President Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisers. He was a member of the faculty of the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago (1976-91) and was on the faculty of the Department of Economics at the University of Rochester (1971-76). During this period he also served as a visiting faculty member at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, the London School of Economics, and the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. His main areas of research are international economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, and municipal finance. He has published widely in these fields in professional journals and research volumes. Other recipients of the Adam Smith Award have included Milton Friedman, James Tobin, Gary Becker, Douglass North, and George Stigler.
Speaker Materials
Michael Mussa podcast at Bloomberg.com with Tom Keene
Speakers
Ellen Hughes-Cromwick
Ford Motor Company
NABE President
Ellen Hughes-Cromwick is a director and chief economist at Ford Motor Company. She joined Ford in 1996, and now directs the corporate economics group with major responsibility for the company’s global economic and automotive industry forecasts. Prior to joining Ford, she was a senior economist at Mellon Bank from 1990 to 1996, and assistant professor of economics at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, during the late 1980s. She served for two years as a staff economist on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers during the Reagan Administration. She received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Notre Dame, a master’s degree in international development, and a PhD in economics at Clark University in Massachusetts. She was recently appointed to the Congressional Budget Office Panel of Economic Advisers.
For the previous four consecutive years, Ellen has served as co-chair of NABE’s Annual March Policy Conference held in Washington, DC.
Michael Mussa
Peterson Institute for International Economics
Michael Mussa, senior fellow since 2001, served as Economic Counselor and Director of the Department of Research at the International Monetary Fund from 1991-2001, where he was responsible for advising the Management of the Fund and the Fund's Executive Board on broad issues of economic policy and for providing analysis of ongoing developments in the world economy. By appointment of President Ronald Reagan, Mussa served as a Member of the US Council of Economic Advisers from August 1986 to September 1988. He was a member of the faculty of the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago (1976-91) and was on the faculty of the Department of Economics at the University of Rochester (1971-76). During this period he also served as a visiting faculty member at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, the London School of Economics, and the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. Mussa's main areas of research are international economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, and municipal finance. He has published widely in these fields in professional journals and research volumes. He is author of Argentina and the Fund: From Triumph to Tragedy (2002) and editor of C. Fred Bergsten and the World Economy (2006).
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