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Monday 8:25-9:00 am Salon A/B
At this session, we'll evaluate possible outcomes of the Administration's expected economic policies and initiatives as they move through the Congress and the mill of public opinion.
David Wyss, Standard & Poor's, moderator
Thomas D. Gallagher
Senior Managing Director
ISI Group, Inc.
Thomas D. Gallagher is a Senior Managing Director of International Strategy and Investment Group Inc. ISI is broker-dealer specializing in economic and political research for institutional investors. Tom runs ISI’s Washington office, which analyzes the financial market implications of policy actions and political developments. He joined ISI in February 1999. Prior to that he was a managing director at Lehman Brothers, where he worked as a political economist for 13 years.
Tom has been ranked on the Institutional Investor's All-Star Team for Washington research for the last nine years and was rated the #1 Washington analyst in 2001. He is a regular panelist on “Louis Rukeyser’s Wall Street.” He serves on the Community First Bankshares Board of Directors and is on the Editorial Advisory Board of Mental Floss magazine.
Before his Wall Street jobs, Tom worked in the federal government for eight years. He served as a senior staff member at the U.S. International Trade Commission, as a Legislative Assistant to Senator George Mitchell, as an Economist for the Senate Budget Committee, and as an Analyst in Public Finance for the Congressional Research Service.
Tom earned a BS in Economics and Political Science from the University of South Dakota (1976) and a Masters of Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (1978). He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst.
