Speakers

We will be updating this page with more information about our speakers. Confirmed speakers include:

Miranda Anderson
Wal-Mart

Ms. Anderson has worked with companies, NGOs, and investors to build climate change policies, develop strategic plans, create public-private alliances, and inform multi-million dollar investment decisions. Miranda has experience with the climate and environmental issues facing corporations, as well as extensive relationships with institutional investors, environmental NGOs, and socially responsible investors. Miranda has traveled to Latin America, Asia, and Africa to advise organizations on environmental and climate strategies, including Nissan, Ford, Allianz, the International Long-Term Ecological Research Network, and many others. She was the lead author of the Ceres-Calvert report, Climate Risk Disclosure of the S&P 500; the Ceres Corporate Toolkit for Managing Climate Risks and Opportunities; and dozens of other analyses of corporate climate change activities. Ms. Anderson wrote the Guide to Using the Global Framework for Climate Risk Disclosure and brings to bear extensive knowledge of how corporations should communicate their climate change strategies to stakeholders. Previously, Miranda served as Director of Operations for two non-profits, Environment2004 and the Solar Electric Light Fund. At E’04, she was in charge of FEC and IRS compliance, finance, and administration, and also assisted with fundraising and overall program development. In the private sector, Ms.Anderson has experience in staffing, training, marketing, finance, and policy, with particular emphasis on community and employee relations. Miranda graduated Magna Cum Laude with her BS in Psychology from Colorado State University, and earned an MBA with honors from George Washington University, specializing in Environmental Management and Policy. Her MBA capstone research on corporate water policies won the Center for Corporate Citizenship's award for “Best MBA Paper in Corporate Citizenship”. She is a frequent guest lecturer on corporate sustainability GWU’s School of Business.

Aulisi Andrew Aulisi
World Resources Institute

Andrew Aulisi is the Director of WRI’s Markets & Enterprise Program, which analyzes the intersection between the private sector and the environment.

Andrew guides the program’s work on transforming business practices globally, including green investment, enterprise development in emerging markets, and corporate environmental performance. Prior to this role, Andrew was the Director of U.S. Climate Policy at WRI and developed the Institute's work on climate change strategies in the private sector, including partnerships with dozens of multinational corporations. His experience includes five years in the private sector analyzing environmental risk at both AIG Inc. and Marsh Inc. He also spent three years developing business partnerships and analyzing market-based policies for Environmental Defense, and two years abroad with the United Nations.

Andrew has a Master of Science degree in Environmental Science from the State University of New York, College of Environmental Science & Forestry, and a bachelors degree in Biology from Bucknell University.

Bennett Paul Bennett
New York Stock Exchange

Paul B. Bennett is Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of NYSE Euronext.

As Chief Economist of NYSE Euronext, Paul Bennett is responsible for analytic support for the Exchange's various business and public-policy activities, and for support of academic and other professional research into equities market issues.

Before joining the NYSE in 2001, Mr. Bennett was a senior officer and economist of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where he had worked since 1978. At the Fed, Mr. Bennett headed the Capital Markets Research division, was editor of the Bank’s research journal and, prior to that, vice president for Fedwire Funds and Securities Transfers, among other responsibilities.

Mr. Bennett has published numerous papers on finance, economics, and securities markets in both academic and practitioner journals.

Mr. Bennett holds a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University and a B.A. in economics from the University of Chicago.

Berson David Berson
PMI Group

As Chief Economist and Strategist, David Berson's responsibilities include domestic and global market research and planning, support of government relations and public policy, and strategic environmental planning. He also acts as a PMI spokesperson on topics related to global economic housing, and mortgage market conditions, prospects, and policy.

Berson comes to PMI from Fannie Mae, where he was Vice President and Chief Economist since 1989. At Fannie Mae Berson was responsible for advising the company on national and regional economic, housing, and mortgage policy and conditions, including forecasts and analyses of the economy, interest rates, and housing and mortgage finance markets. Berson was also a senior member of the corporate strategy group, where he provided alternative views and risk analyses based on economic and market changes.

Prior to Fannie Mae, Berson held senior management positions at Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates overseeing domestic services, financial analysis, and modeling. As well, he has held several teaching positions at the University of Michigan, Claremont McKenna College, and Claremont Graduate School. Berson has published more than ten papers on the U.S. housing and mortgage markets.

Berson received a Ph.D. in economics and a M.P.P. in public policy from the University of Michigan, and a B.A. in history and economics from Williams College. He has a long history of civic activity and currently serves on the advisory board for the Middle Patuxent Environmental Area and the board of directors for Crossway Community, a transitional housing project for homeless families.

Susan Binder
National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission

On May 24, 1998, Susan Binder became Director, Office of Legislative and Governmental Affairs. She also serves as Deputy Associate Administrator for Policy and Governmental Affairs, the senior career staff in the policy capacity for FHWA. In those positions, she directs a multi-disciplinary staff in the development and analyzes of alternative Federal-aid highway programs, policies, and legislative proposals; manages the development of FHWA’s national strategic planning initiatives; and conducts Congressional and government relations activities. Prior to this appointment, she was FHWA’s Maryland Division Administrator, responsible for leading the Federal-aid highway program in the State of Maryland. From January 4, 2001 until June 2, 2002, while continuing in her duties as Director of Legislative and Governmental Affairs, she simultaneously served as Associate Administrator/Director of Policy as well as Director of International Programs. She is a recognized expert in highway finance and economics.

Concurrently, she is serving as the Executive Director of the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission. In that role, she leads a multi-modal staff in support of this 12-person Congressionally mandated Commission that is chaired by the Secretary of Transportation. She is responsible for policy, logistical, budgetary, and communications concerns as the Commission deliberates upon its advice to the Congress on fugue surface transportation policy and programs. She directs preparation of its report to Congress.

Susan joined the USDOT in 1975 as a Departmental Transportation Management Intern, working across the modes and in the Office of the Secretary in various capacities. Upon appointment to FHWA, she held various positions including Chief of the Industry and Economic Analysis Branch. There she created and led a research program to address the relationship between highway investment and the vitality of the national economy and served as U.S. Chair of the NAFTA standards harmonization dealing with truck size and weight issues. During her tenure in FHWA, she also served in several assignments outside the Agency, including a LEGIS Fellowship as professional staff for the House Public Works and Transportation Committee during the development of ISTEA and a detail to the Office of Management and Budget. Prior to joining DOT, she held positions at the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Wholesale Price Index.

She has received numerous performance and honor awards, including the Presidential Meritorious Executive Rank Award, the Secretary of Transportation’s Award for Meritorious Achievement, the Senior Executive Service Special Achievement Award, the Lester P. Lamm Award for outstanding public servants, and the Administrator’s Awards for Special Achievement and Unusually Outstanding Performance. Her education includes a BS in Consumer Economics from the University of Maryland and an MBA, with concentration in Transportation, from George Washington University. Married to Michael Binder, she is the mother of two sons now pursuing undergraduate and graduate degrees.

Cannon Michael Cannon
Cato Institute

Michael F. Cannon is the Cato Institute's director of health policy studies. Previously, he served as a domestic policy analyst for the U.S. Senate Republican Policy Committee under Chairman Larry E. Craig, where he advised the Senate leadership on health, education, labor, welfare, and the Second Amendment. Cannon has appeared on ABC, CBS, CNN, CNBC, C-SPAN, Fox News Channel, and NPR. His articles have been featured in USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics. Cannon is coauthor of Healthy Competition: What’s Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It. He holds a bachelor's degree in American government (B.A.) from the University of Virginia, and master’s degrees in economics (M.A.) and law & economics (J.M.) from George Mason University.

Cupoli Edward Cupoli
State University of New York at Albany

Dr. Edward M. Cupoli is Head of the Nanoeconomics Constellation and Professor of Nanoeconomics at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering at the University at Albany, State University of New York. His principal responsibilities include establishing the constellation as a world class education and research resource in nanoeconomics, developing a national and international recognition for its programs, and expanding its resources and infrastructure through recruitment, fund raising, and marketing activities. Dr. Cupoli is a member of the University Faculty Senate and the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering Committee’s on Admission, Curriculum, and Promotion and Tenure.

Previously, Dr. Cupoli served as Chief Economist and Director of Research for the New York State Assembly Ways and Means Committee. His primary responsibility was to forecast state and national economic conditions for the Legislature to use in creating a budget and in promoting development of the State’s economy. Principal responsibilities as Chief Economist and Director of Research included advising the Speaker of the Assembly as well as the Chair and Secretary of the Ways and Means Committee in regard to formulating the State fiscal plan and identifying the underlying risk to it. He also managed/oversaw research undertaken in support of the Committee's extensive responsibilities.

Dr. Cupoli has served as acting director of the New York State Legislative Commission on the Modernization and Simplification of Tax Administration and the Tax Law, advisor to the New York State Legislative Commission on State-Local Relations, and advisor to the New York State Legislative Commission on Government Administration. He has also served as the Assembly Speaker’s representative to Cornell University’s Board of Trustees and as advisor to the Assembly Speaker’s designee to the State’s Deferred Compensation Board.

Dr. Cupoli was a faculty member at Michigan State University and has lectured at the Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy at the State University of New York at Albany, State University of New York, the College of Saint Rose, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He has also taught as a Faculty Associate in the Economics Department of the State University of New York at Albany. Dr. Cupoli earned doctoral and masters degrees in economics from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University and received a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from LeMoyne College.

Diffley James Diffley
Global Insight

James Diffley is Group Managing Director of Global Insight’s U.S. Regional Services Group, with overall responsibility for U.S. Regional Services. Since 1998, he has supervised the quarterly economic forecast of the 50 states and over 300 metropolitan areas of the United States. He regularly makes presentations of these regional economic forecasts and analysis to clients, conferences, governmental bodies, and the press.

He is also responsible for numerous customized consulting projects. These have included long-term projections of cigarette consumption, tax revenue forecasts, and numerous local economic impact studies. Mr. Diffley joined WEFA, the predecessor of Global Insight, in 1997 after nine years with the New Jersey Department of Treasury. He did his Ph.D. training in economics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Dotzour Mark G. Dotzour
Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University

Dr. Mark G. Dotzour is the Chief Economist and Director of Research for the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. He earned his Ph.D. in the Department of Finance at the University of Texas at Austin in 1987 and served as Associate Professor of Real Estate and Finance at Wichita State University for 10 years. As Chief Economist, he is currently doing market research to monitor how global and national trends are likely to impact residential and commercial real estate markets.

Prior to his academic career, he was president of Gleneagles Development, Inc., developing residential subdivisions in Wichita, Kansas. He also served as president of Dotzour Inc., Realtors, which was a residential brokerage firm in Wichita.

He has been at the Real Estate Center since August, 1997. Since then, he has published 59 articles in magazines and given over 700 presentations to more than 95,000 people. His research findings and comments have been published in the Wall Street Journal , Money Magazine, USA Today and Business Week. He was a recent guest on the Jim Lehrer Newshour on PBS.

Brian Dreese
Economic adviser to Senator Clinton

Brian Deese is an Economic Policy Advisor to Senator Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. Previously, Brian was a Senior Economic Analyst at the Center for American Progress, where he worked on issues of budget and tax policy, trade, and higher education. Before that, Brian worked as a researcher at the Center for Global Development, where he managed a legislative outreach program on international economic development issues. He is the co-author of the book Delivering on Debt Relief, and numerous articles on economic policy that have appeared in publications including the American Prospect, Washington Monthly, International Herald Tribune, and the Atlantic Economic Journal. He is a graduate of Middlebury College and attends Yale Law School.

Duleep K. G. Duleep
Energy and Environmental Analysis, Inc

Mr. Duleep has been involved with automotive fuel economy issues for over twenty-five years. He has extensive experience with issues surrounding manufacturing cost analysis and is an internationally known expert on automobile fuel economy technology. Mr. Duleep has directed several studies evaluating new technologies for vehicular engine and fuel combinations (including methanol, natural gas and other alternative fueled vehicles) in the US. These studies have compared technical feasibility, economics, performance, maintenance, and air emissions impacts. His work on fuel economy and GHG reduction technology for light-duty vehicles has been cited extensively around the world, and he has been retained by the International Energy Agency and the European Council of Ministers for Transport to develop strategies for improving the fuel economy of on-road vehicles in the EC

Mr. Duleep has testified on transportation technology issues for the U.S. Congress during debates on the Clean Air Act and CAFE (fuel economy) standards, and was the expert witness for the State of California in their defense of the technical feasibility of attaining the 2016 automotive GHG standards.

Mr. Duleep has several advanced degrees in Engineering and also has an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School.

Dunbar Ann Dunbar
US Bureau of Economic Analysis

Ann Dunbar has been an economist at the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) in the Office of the Chief, Regional Economic Measurement Division since 1989. There, she conducts research and investigates possible new sources for all the regional components of state and local personal income. Current research has focused on estimating pension distributions by state and constructing experimental estimates of disposable personal income for metropolitan areas. She represents the Regional Division at internal and interagency meetings. Prior to joining BEA, she was an industry economist with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

She hold a B.A. in Economics from California State University at Northridge and a M.A. in Economics from UCLA. She also completed post graduate work at the University of Maryland.

She is very active in the National Economists Club, NABE’s Washington Chapter. Currently, she serve as chair of NABE’s Regional Utility

Edmonds Jae Edmonds
Joint Global Change Research Institute

Jae Edmonds is a Chief Scientist and Laboratory Fellow at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s (PNNL) Joint Global Change Research Institute, and Adjunct Professor of Public Policy at the University of Maryland at College Park. Dr. Edmonds is the principal investigator for the Global Energy Technology Strategy Program to Address Climate Change, an international, public-private research collaboration. His research in the areas of long-term, global, energy, economy, and climate change spans three decades, during which time he published several books, numerous scientific papers and made countless presentations. His most recent book, Global Energy Technology Strategy, Addressing Climate Change, distills more than a decade of research on the role of technology in addressing climate change. Dr. Edmonds has served in the capacity of Lead Author on every major IPCC assessment to date and presently serves on the IPCC Steering Committee on "New Integrated Scenarios". He serves on numerous panels and advisory boards related to energy, technology, the economy and climate change. His received his Ph.D. in the field of Economics from Duke University in 1975.

Martin Feldstein
National Bureau of Economic Research President

Martin Feldstein is the George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University and President and CEO of the National Bureau of Economic Research. From 1982 through 1984, Martin Feldstein was Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and President Reagan's chief economic adviser. He served as President of the American Economic Association in 2004. In 2006, President Bush appointed him to be a member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.

The National Bureau is a private, nonprofit research organization that has specialized for more than 80 years in producing nonpartisan studies of the American economy.

Dr. Feldstein is a member of the American Philosophical Society, a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Econometric Society and a Fellow of the National Association of Business Economists. He is also a member of the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Group of 30, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Dr. Feldstein has received honorary doctorates from several universities and is an Honorary Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford. In 1977, he received the John Bates Clark Medal of the American Economic Association, a prize awarded every two years to the economist under the age of 40 who is judged to have made the greatest contribution to economic science. He is the author of more than 300 research articles in economics.

Dr. Feldstein is a director of two corporations (American International Group and Eli Lilly), a Governor of the Smith-Richardson Foundation, and an economic adviser to several businesses and government organizations in the United States and abroad. He is a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal.

Martin Feldstein is a graduate of Harvard College and Oxford University. He was born in New York City in 1939. His wife, Kathleen, is also an economist. The Feldsteins have two grown daughters.

Jane Gravelle
Congressional Research Service

Jane G. Gravelle is currently a Senior Specialist in Economic Policy in the Government and Finance Division of CRS, She specializes in the economics of taxation, particularly the effects of tax policies on economic growth and resource allocation. Recent papers have addressed consumption taxes, dynamic revenue estimating, investment subsidies, capital gains taxes, individual retirement accounts, estate and gift taxes, family tax issues, charitable contributions, and corporate taxation. In addition to her work at CRS she is the author of numerous articles in books and professional journals, including recent papers on the tax burdens across families and tax reform proposals. She is the author of a book, the Economic Effects of Taxing Capital Income, and co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Taxation and Tax Policy. She is the editor of the Tax Expenditure Compendium published every two years by the Senate Budget Committee. She holds a B.A. and an M.A. in political science from the University of Georgia and a Ph.D. in economics from George Washington University. She is past president of the National Tax Association and received the NTA’s public service award in 2007

Harris Ethan Harris
Chief Economist
Lehman Brothers

Mr. Harris is managing director and chief economist at Lehman Brothers in New York. He is responsible for the firm’s forecast and analysis of the US economy. In this capacity Ethan has written extensively about the linkages between geopolitical events and the economy, the unique nature of the current business cycle, and the outlook for monetary and fiscal policy. Mr. Harris’ work has received extensive coverage and in both the print and broadcast media. In 2006 his team earned the number one ranking among economists for the fixed income Institutional Investor poll. Ethan joined Lehman Brothers in 1996.

Prior to joining Lehman Brothers, Ethan worked for nine years at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. At the Bank he served as the research officer in charge of the Domestic Division, and as the assistant to the President of the Bank. Ethan also worked for several years as an international economist at JP Morgan.

Mr. Harris has a PhD in Economics from Columbia University, where he was a University Fellow. He earned a BA in economics from Clark University.

Devon Herrick
National Center for Policy Analysis and
Health Economics Roundtable

Herrick

Devon Herrick, Ph. D., concentrates on health care issues, such as Internet-based medicine, health insurance and the uninsured, as well as pharmaceutical drug issues. Other areas which Dr. Herrick focuses on include managed care, patient empowerment, medical privacy and technology-related issues.

Dr. Herrick has been responsible for the NCPA's computer and information services, as well as oversight of the design and maintenance of the NCPA's award-winning Web site - Idea House. He has training in financial analysis and health economics, and has conducted several major research projects for the NCPA, having published several research studies and papers on health policy. Herrick is a sought-after speaker on health policy issues.

Prior to joining the NCPA, Dr. Herrick was a research assistant at the Bruton Center for Development Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. The Bruton Center integrates geographic information systems, spatial analysis, and exploratory data analysis in the social sciences, applying research on trends, forces, and public policy. In addition, he spent six years working in health care accounting and financial management for a Dallas-area health care system.

Dr. Herrick received a Ph.D. in Political Economy and a Master of Public Affairs from the University of Texas at Dallas with a concentration in economic development. Dr. Herrick's dissertation research examined patient empowerment through empirical analysis of the Internet and disease advocacy.

He also holds an MBA with a concentration in finance from Oklahoma City University and an MBA from Amber University, as well as a BS in accounting from the University of Central Oklahoma.

Sydney Smith Hicks
NABE Corporate Planning Roundtable Chair

Sydney Smith Hicks is currently a professional director and consultant. She serves on the board of Smart Start, Inc, an ignition interlock company. Smart Start produces ignition interlock devices, franchises nationally, currently in over 25 states, and is the largest company in its industry. Prior to her current focus, she was CEO of VECTORsgi, Inc. and Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy, for Metavante Corporation. VECTORsgi is a financial technology software and services company which Hicks sold to Metavante in November 2004. Its products and services are sold primarily to the top 125 banks in the U.S. Metavante is a $1.5B company delivering banking and payments technologies to financial services firms and businesses worldwide.

Hicks was CEO of VECTORsgi, Inc., from 2003 to 2006, where she was responsible for maximizing business performance and strategically guiding the growth and expansion of VECTORsgi. Under Hicks’ leadership VECTORsgi expanded product lines, increased sales, and generated increasing levels of profits. Prior to the acquisition by Metavante, VECTORsgi was owned by management and Thoma Cressey Equity Partners; Hicks was also a Board Member. Investors tripled their investment over 15 months.

Before VECTORsgi became private, Hicks was senior vice president of Sterling Commerce and CEO of the Banking Systems Division of Sterling Commerce, the predecessor of VECTORsgi. During Hicks’ tenure, she set the strategy to transform the company from mainframe technologies to distributed technologies. With the advent of Check 21, her company was positioned with new products, allowing the company to capture the market for image exchange. For more than six years prior to being CEO, she was vice president of Operations and Business Development where she led new business development, supervised product acquisitions and was responsible for managing the strategy, design, development, maintenance, installation services, training services, and customized consulting for 11 product solutions, containing over 50 products. Hicks joined Banking Systems as Director of Marketing for Item Processing Solutions in 1996.

Prior to Sterling Commerce, Hicks gained an extensive knowledge of banking and electronic transactions at NationsBank, a predecessor of Bank of America, where she served as senior vice president of Transaction Solutions and Image Initiatives. Hicks was chief economist for NCNB (and First Republic and InterFirst), financial economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and a visiting scholar for the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. During her career, she was on the board of the Electronic Check Clearing House Organization (ECCHO), was the founding chairman of the board of Payment Systems Network (PSN), now owned by The Clearing House Payments Company, and held various academic positions.

Hicks is currently on two not-for-profit boards in Dallas, is a Mentor/Advisor for STARTech Early Ventures, and is Chair of the Corporate Planning Committee of the National Association of Business Economists. Locally she has led several boards and organizations over the last 25 years, including IWFDallas.

Hicks earned both a master’s degree and a doctorate in Economics from Washington University (St. Louis). She also has a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Cornell College (Iowa), where she graduated with distinction in economics. She currently serves on the Advisory Board of Cornell College’s Berry Center for Economics, Business, and Public Policy.

Hill J. French Hill
Investor & Venture Capitalist

J. French Hill, 50, is an investor and venture capitalist living in his hometown of Little Rock. He is founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Delta Trust & Banking Corp., a private banking company headquartered in Little Rock.

Mr. Hill founded Delta Trust after a six-year career with Arkansas’ largest bank holding company, First Commercial Corp. First Commercial is now part of Regions Financial Corp. (RF). He was responsible for First Commercial’s $13 billion trust company and the company’s investment broker-dealer operations. As an executive officer of First Commercial, he also oversaw human resources, compliance, asset quality and strategic planning.

Over the past twenty-five years, Mr. Hill has had a rich career in both the private and public sectors. He has served as an advisor to Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, former U.S. Senators John Tower (R-TX) and Jake Garn (R-UT) and former President George Bush. As a ninth generation Arkansan, he is dedicated to his hometown of Little Rock and his native state of Arkansas. On June 20, 2006, President George W. Bush appointed Mr. Hill to serve as a member of the Community Development Advisory Board of the U.S. Treasury.

From May 1989 until January 20, 1993, Mr. Hill served as a senior official in the Bush Administration. He was appointed by President George H.W. Bush as Special Assistant to the President on September 4, 1991. He served as the Executive Secretary to the President's Economic Policy Council (EPC). The EPC, composed of the President's cabinet, was the primary channel for advising the President on the formation, coordination, and implementation of domestic and economic policy -- including international economic and trade policies. Mr. Hill chaired the Trade Policy Review Group (TPRG) and the International Economic Policy Group.

Prior to his joining the White House staff, Mr. Hill served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Corporate Finance. He was appointed to that position in May 1989. While at the Treasury Department, his responsibilities included policy formation in areas of securities, capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, the competitiveness of the financial services sector, and other issues of importance to the corporate sector of the economy. He represented the United States as a negotiator in the historic trade talks with Japan known as the Structural Impediments Initiative (SII). After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Mr. Hill led the design of U. S. technical assistance to the emerging economies of eastern and central Europe in the areas of banking and securities. For his leadership and service at the Treasury and the White House, Mr. Hill was awarded the Distinguished Service Award by Secretary of the Treasury Nicholas Brady in January 1993.

Mr. Hill’s venture capital and investment banking experience began in 1984 with the private merchant banking firm, Mason Best Company, Dallas, Texas. As a member of the firm's founding management team, Mr. Hill gained broad experience in the structuring and negotiating of a variety of financial transactions including venture capital, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. He was president of a Mason Best Company affiliated entity, MB Securities Company, Ltd., a member firm of the NASD (now known as FINRA).

Mr. Hill was recognized as an Outstanding Young Arkansan in April 1994 by the Jaycees; included in "40 Under 40" in Arkansas Business in July 1996; and awarded in February 1998 the Silver Beaver Award by the Boy Scouts of America for his commitment to youth. In 1999, he was named Museum Trustee of the Year for his work on behalf of the Historic Arkansas Museum. In 2002, he was awarded the Hanlon Award by the City of Little Rock for Outstanding Business Leader for the arts and humanities. In 2007, he received the Arkansas Heritage Award from Governor Mike Beebe at the Annual Governor’s Conference on Tourism.

Mr. Hill is a magna cum laude graduate in Economics from Vanderbilt University. He is married to the former Martha McKenzie of Dallas, Texas, and they have a daughter, Sarah Elizabeth McKenzie Hill, and a son, William Payne Hill.

Terry Holzheimer
Arlington (VA) County Economic Development

Terry Holzheimer is the Director of Arlington Economic Development in Arlington, Virginia. Prior to joining Arlington, he served as Director of Economic Development for Loudoun County, Virginia. Terry has also served as the Washington Regional Manager for Legg Mason Real Estate Research, Inc., and Field Director for the National League of Cities. He is also currently a member of the adjunct faculty at Virginia Tech in the school of Urban Affairs and Planning.

Holzheimer has a Ph.D. in Public Policy, with a specialization in regional development, from George Mason University; studied Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Miami; and has a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Florida. He has been a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners since 1978 and is a Certified Economic Developer.

Hooper Peter Hooper
Deutsche Bank Securities

Peter Hooper joined Deutsche Bank Securities in the fall of 1999, first as Chief International Economist; he shortly thereafter assumed responsibilities as Chief US Economist; he became Chief Economist in 2006. Dr. Hooper frequently comments on US and global economic and financial developments in the news media.

Prior to joining the firm, Dr. Hooper enjoyed a distinguished 26-year career at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C. While rising to near the top of the Fed staff, he held numerous positions, including as an economist on the FOMC and as Deputy Director of the Division of International Finance. In doing so, he developed an informed view of the Fed's policy making process.

Dr. Hooper earned a BA in Economics (cum laude) from Princeton University and an MA and Ph.D. in Economics from University of Michigan. He has published numerous books, journal articles, and reviews on economics and policy analysis.

Hughes Cromwick 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.

Lisa Jacobson
Business Council for Sustainable Energy

Lisa Jacobson serves as the Executive Director for the Business Council for Sustainable Energy – a broad-based industry coalition of energy efficiency, natural gas and renewable energy interests that advocates energy and environmental policies that promote markets for clean, efficient and sustainable energy products and services. The Council’s coalition includes power developers, equipment manufacturers, independent generators, green power marketers, and gas and electric utilities, as well as several of the primary trade associations in these sectors.

Ms. Jacobson has extensive experience on the design of environmental and emissions markets. She is the author of numerous publications focusing on greenhouse gas risk management, emissions trading policy and clean energy market development.

Ms. Jacobson served on the California Climate Action Registry Power Sector and Utility Protocol Advisory Committee and has advised numerous states and federal policymakers on the incorporation of clean energy and energy efficiency into market-based emissions programs. Prior to her position with the Council, Ms. Jacobson was a legislative aide to the U.S. Congress; received a Masters in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science; and a Bachelors degree in Political Science from the University of Vermont.

Ms. Jacobson lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland with her husband Chris Jones and their two young daughters, Alexandra and Katherine Jones.

Rodger Johnson
U.S. Census Bureau

Russell O. Jones
American Petroleum Institute

Dr. Russell Jones is a Senior Economic Advisor at API (American Petroleum Institute) with a focus on the economic aspects of global climate change research and policy assessment. Dr. Jones has been involved in numerous other environmental issues including the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Superfund, and multi-emission legislation.

Prior to joining API in 1989, he was an Economist and Manager of the Corporate Planning & Economics Department of Pennzoil Company in Houston, Texas. His responsibilities included development, oversight, and publication of economic, energy and industry forecasts as well as strategic planning guidelines for Pennzoil Company and its subsidiaries.

Dr. Jones also was an International Economist (1979-1982) with the U.S. Department of Commerce in Washington, D.C. At the Commerce Department, he was responsible for economic research and policy analysis for industrial and critical commodities as well as for international commodity organizations. In this capacity, he represented the U.S. Department of Commerce at interagency meetings and the U.S. Government at U.N. sponsored negotiations on commodities in Geneva, Switzerland.

Dr. Jones has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Santa Barbara, a M.A. in Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana, and a B.A. in Economics from Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, California.

Keene Thomas R. Keene
Bloomberg News

Thomas R. Keene is an editor-at-large for Bloomberg News. He provides economic and investment perspective to Bloomberg's various news divisions and writes the chart of the day article, available only on the BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL service. He features the chart on Bloomberg Television. Tom is host of "Bloomberg on the Economy" heard weekdays on the Bloomberg Radio network and on podcasts on Bloomberg.com and iTunes. He is editor of Flying on One Engine, The Bloomberg Book of Master Market Economists, Fourteen Views on the World Economy, published in 2005. He is a graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology and is enrolled in courses at the London School of Economics. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst, a member of the CFA Institute, the National Association for Business Economics and The Economic Club of New York

J. Bruce Kellison
University of Texas, Austin

Alexa Kennedy-Puthoff
U.S. Census Bureau

Alexa Kennedy-Puthoff has worked in the Census Bureau’s Immigration Statistics Staff since its inception in 2003. Her current focus is improving the Census Bureau’s estimates of net international migration to the United States.

Prior to becoming the project lead for net international migration estimate research and production, she worked for the Immigration Statistics Staff evaluating American Community Survey data. She also spent a short time working in the field during preparations for Census 2000.

Ms. Kennedy-Puthoff holds a B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin in Sociology, and an MA from the University of Maryland in Sociology with a Demography emphasis. Prior to joining the Census Bureau, she worked as a Research Director for a Washington, D.C.-based research institute.

Robert Kleinhenz
California Association of REALTORS

Robert Kleinhenz is the Deputy Chief Economist for the California Association of REALTORSâ, a statewide trade organization of real estate professionals with nearly 200,000 members. Robert manages C.A.R.’s research and economics department, which gathers and publishes information on the California housing market, and conducts survey research of consumers and C.A.R. members.

Dr. Kleinhenz holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan, a Master’s degree and a Doctorate from the University of Southern California, all in Economics. His field is Urban and Regional Economics with a specialization in Land Use and Transportation Analysis. Prior to working at C.A.R, he taught Economics for over 15 years, most recently at California State University, Fullerton. He has spoken to local, state, and national audiences and is a frequent contributor to media coverage on the housing market and economy.

Dr. Kleinhenz is a member of NABE, a member of the NABE Regional Utility Roundtable, and the 2007-2008 President of the Los Angeles chapter of NABE.

Kathryn Kobe
Economic Consulting Services LLC

K athryn Kobe is the Director of Price, Wage, and Productivity Analysis with Economic Consulting Services. Prior to joining ECS she was Chief Economist and Executive Vice President of Joel Popkin and Company where she worked since February 1981. Her research responsibilities include macroeconomic and industry forecasting; constructing price and wage indexes from individual company's data, proprietary survey data and from government data; studying wages, benefits, price and cost issues and forecasting their trends; and constructing cost impact models of industries or companies. She has served as an expert witness, presents research results in reports and briefings, and provides input to regulatory and policy reviews. She is the co-author of the recent study for the Council of Manufacturing Associations entitled "Securing America's Future: The Case for a Strong Manufacturing Base" and recently testified before the Senate Finance Committee on the state of manufacturing in the U.S. She also represents the Company in providing television and other interviews on various aspects of the economic outlook. JPC's clients include industrial and financial corporations, the U.S. and other national governments and international organizations.

Ms. Kobe is a member and former Chairperson of the Board of the National Economists Club, and belongs to National Association for Business Economics, the Society of Government Economists, the Washington Association of Money Managers and the Industrial Relations Research Association.

Before coming to Joel Popkin and Company, Ms. Kobe worked at Evans Economics, a private econometric and forecasting firm. At Evans, she was responsible for developing the livestock and dairy sectors of the Evans agricultural model. Prior to joining Evans Economics, Ms. Kobe was an economist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Her duties there include researching and building a sector of an agricultural product model and analyzing prospective grain price support policy actions.

Ms. Kobe received her B.A. in economics Summa Cum Laude from the University of Maryland (College Park) and received her M.A. in economics from George Washington University.

Lemieux Jeff Lemieux
America's Health Insurance Plans

Jeff Lemieux is the Senior Vice President directing AHIP's new Center for Policy and Research. Prior to joining AHIP, Lemieux was Executive Director of Centrists.Org, a small think tank dedicated to pursuing bipartisan policy solutions. Before founding Centrists.Org in 2003, Lemieux worked as a senior economist for the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI). At PPI, he was responsible for studies of overall economy including federal budget, tax, and entitlement issues, as well as health care. In 1998 and 1999, Lemieux served as the staff economist for the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare, which was co-chaired by Senator John Breaux and Congressman Bill Thomas. Before joining the Commission, from 1992 to 1998, Lemieux was with the Congressional Budget Office, where he estimated the cost of national health reform plans and, later, the impact of Medicare reforms enacted in the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 and other laws.

An economist specializing in health care and public finance, Jeff is the author of centrist proposals for health coverage, Medicare reform, and balanced budgets, and creator of long-term projections of entitlement spending and federal budgets used by Congress and the policymaking community. He has testified before the House Ways and Means Committee, the Senate Finance Committee, and other committees in Congress on Medicare reform, tax-based proposals to expand access to health coverage, chronic care management, and other topics.

Lund Susan Lund
McKinsey Global Institute

Susan Lund is a Senior Fellow at the McKinsey Global Institute, where she leads its research on global capital markets. MGI publishes an annual update on trends in global capital markets, based in part on a unique database of the world's financial markets. In addition, recent reports have examined the sustainability of the US current account deficit, analyzed prospects for China's financial system, and assessed how India's financial sector affects economic growth. MGI has also examined the impact of hedge funds, private equity, petrodollars, and Asian central banks on global financial markets. Prior research looked at the origins of financial crises.

Lund joined McKinsey as a consultant in 1996 in the Washington, DC office. She served a variety of clients in investment banking, financial services, and international financial institutions. She became a member of the Board of Editors at The McKinsey Quarterly in 2000, where she wrote numerous journal articles and opinion pieces for leading international publications on economics and public policy.

Prior to joining McKinsey, Ms. Lund was a Fulbright Fellow in the Philippines, where she conducted research on micro-credit programs, and worked as a consultant at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development in Yunnan, China. She was an analyst at Mathematica Policy Research in Washington DC, and served for two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in a remote mountain community in the Philippines.

Ms. Lund holds a Ph.D. in international economics from Stanford University. Prior to that, she graduated summa cum laude from Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics. Her publications have appeared in journals such as Foreign Affairs, the Far Eastern Economic Review, the Journal of Economic Development, the Milken Review, the International Economy, and the McKinsey Quarterly.

Donald B. Marron Jr.
Council of Economic Advisers

Donald B. Marron is currently Senior Economic Adviser at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. In that capacity, he analyzes a broad range of macroeconomic, fiscal, regulatory, and international policy issues.

Dr. Marron was previously Deputy Director of the Congressional Budget Office, including more than a year as its Acting Director. He also served as the CEA’s Chief Economist, and was the Executive Director and Chief Economist of the Congress’s Joint Economic Committee.

Before his government service, Dr. Marron was chief financial officer of a medical software start-up in Austin, Texas and a principal with the Washington, D.C., office of Charles River Associates, where he provided business consulting and litigation support to companies in a variety of industries. He also served as an assistant professor of economics at the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business from 1994 to 1998, where he taught courses in microeconomics, entrepreneurial finance and private equity, and environmental policy.

Dr. Marron has testified numerous times before Congress and has published articles on a broad range of topics, including tax policy, intellectual property, and energy and environmental policy. He received his B.A in Mathematics from Harvard College and his Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

McGee Robert McGee
U.S. Trust, Bank of America Wealth Management

Tim McGee is Chief Economist at U.S. Trust. He is responsible for the economic forecast and other economic research with a focus on investment strategy. In addition, he serves on the Finance and Investment Strategy Committees.

Prior to joining U.S. Trust, Mr. McGee was a strategist and economist with UFJ and Tokai Banks. He is well known in Japan for his regular market column in the Nikkei Financial Daily. In 2000, Business Week magazine recognized him for making the most accurate forecast in its annual survey of economists. More recently, both Bloomberg and USA Today recognized him for outstanding forecasting accuracy. He has appeared on CNBC, Reuters, and Bloomberg TV and has often been quoted in various publications like the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times.

Mr. McGee began his career in the academic world teaching at Florida State University and New York University. He also spent three years at the New York Federal Reserve Bank and one year as a fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies. He has published numerous articles in academic journals.

Tim received his B.S. from the Georgia Institute of Technology and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Wisconsin. Some of his memberships include the American Economic Association, the National Association of Business Economics, The Forecasters Club of New York and the Money Marketeers. He currently serves as Chairman of the American Banker Association’s Economic Advisory Committee. In that capacity he will also serve on the ABA Government Relations Committee. Recently, he joined the New York City Economic Advisory Panel.

McLarty Thomas F. McLarty
President
Kissinger McLarty Associates

Thomas F. McLarty is president of the international advisory firm, McLarty Associates. He is also Chairman of the McLarty Companies, a fourth-generation family transportation business, including a major automotive retail endeavor – RLJ-McLarty-Landers – which he operates in partnership with Robert Johnson and Steve Landers. Additionally, Mr. McLarty serves as senior advisor to The Carlyle Group private equity firm and as senior advisor to the law firm Covington & Burling.

Mr. McLarty served in the White House under President Clinton in several key positions: Chief of Staff, Counselor to the President and Special Envoy for the Americas, with over five years of service in the President’s Cabinet and on the National Economic Council. Mr. McLarty also worked with President Carter as a member of the Democratic National Committee, was appointed to the National Petroleum Council and the National Council on Environmental Quality by President George H.W. Bush, and served on the St. Louis Federal Reserve Board from 1989 until joining the Clinton Administration in 1992.

While serving in the White House, Mr. McLarty was the recipient of the Secretary of State’s Distinguished Service Medal; the highest civilian honors of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, and Venezuela; and the Center for the Study of the Presidency Distinguished Service Award.

Prior to his tenure in the White House, Mr. McLarty served as Chairman of Arkla, a Fortune 500 natural gas company. During his tenure Arkla grew into the nation’s largest natural gas distributor, with customers in 11 states and significant exploration and pipeline operations. The company was recognized by Forbes and Wall Street Transcript for management excellence, and by other national organizations for environmental initiatives and minority enterprise development. Mr. McLarty began his business career as a third generation participant in McLarty Companies, where he helped build the business his grandfather founded into one of the nation’s largest transportation companies.

Mr. McLarty serves on the boards of a number of corporate and non-profit institutions including Union Pacific, the Acxiom Corporation, the Bush Clinton Katrina Fund, the Council of the Americas, the Inter-American Dialogue, Ford’s Theatre, and the Center for the Study of the Presidency. In addition, he is senior counselor to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Senior International Fellow at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Born in Hope, Arkansas, Mack and his wife, Donna McLarty, currently divide their time between Washington, D.C , Little Rock, and Hope. They have two sons: Mark, who is CEO of China Grand Automotive Group and a Senior Advisor to Texas Pacific/Newbridge Capital; and Franklin, vice president of the McLarty Companies. He graduated cum laude with a degree in Business Administration from the University of Arkansas.

Mishkin Frederic Mishkin
Federal Reserve Board Governor

Frederic S. Mishkin took office on September 5, 2006, to fill an unexpired term ending January 31, 2014.

Before becoming a member of the Board, Dr. Mishkin was the Alfred Lerner Professor of Banking and Financial Institutions at the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, from 1999 to 2006. Prior to that he was the A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Economics from 1991 to 1999 and professor at the Graduate School of Business from 1983 to 1991. He was also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (1980 to 2006) and a senior fellow at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's Center for Banking Research (2003 to 2006). Dr. Mishkin has taught at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, Princeton University, and Columbia University.

Before joining the Board, Dr. Mishkin served the Federal Reserve System in several roles. From 1994 to 1997, he was Executive Vice President and Director of Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and an Associate Economist of the Federal Open Market Committee of the Federal Reserve System. Dr. Mishkin was the editor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Economic Policy Review and later served on that journal's editorial board. From 1997 to 2006, he also was an academic consultant to and served on the Economic Advisory Panel of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Dr. Mishkin has been an academic consultant to the Board of Governors and a visiting scholar at the Board's Division of International Finance.

Dr. Mishkin's research focuses on monetary policy and its impact on financial markets and the aggregate economy. He is the author of more than fifteen books and has published numerous articles in professional journals and books. Dr. Mishkin has served on the editorial board of the American Economic Review and has been an associate editor at the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, the Journal of Applied Econometrics, and the Journal of Economic Perspectives. He is currently an associate editor (member of the editorial board) at the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking; Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics Abstracts; Journal of International Money and Finance; International Finance; and Finance India.

Dr. Mishkin has been a consultant to the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the International Monetary Fund, as well as to numerous central banks throughout the world. He was also a member of the International Advisory Board to the Financial Supervisory Service of South Korea and an adviser to the Institute for Monetary and Economic Research at the Bank of Korea.

Dr. Mishkin was born in January 1951 in New York, New York. He received a B.S. (1973) and Ph.D. (1976), both in economics, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1999, he received an honorary professorship from the Peoples (Renmin) University of China.

Dr. Mishkin is married and has two children.

Nichols Len Nichols
New America Foundation

Len Nichols, a highly respected healthcare economist, directs the Health Policy Program at the New America Foundation, which aims to expand health insurance coverage to all Americans while reining in costs and improving the efficiency of the overall health care system. Before joining New America, Dr. Nichols was the Vice President of the Center for Studying Health System Change, a Principal Research Associate at the Urban Institute, and the Senior Advisor for Health Policy at the Office of Management and Budget during the Clinton reform efforts of 1993-94. He has testified frequently before Congress and state legislators and has published widely in a variety of health related journals.

Previously, Dr. Nichols was Chair of the Economics Department at Wellesley College, where he taught for 10 years. He also served as a member of the Competitive Pricing Advisory Commission (CPAC) and the 2001 Technical Review Panel for the Medicare Trustees Reports. He was on the advisory panel to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Covering America project and has been a consultant to the World Bank, the InterAmerican Development Bank, and the Pan American Health Organization. Dr. Nichols received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Illinois.

Novak Mary Novak
Global Insight Inc

Mary H. Novak is the managing director of North American Energy Services for Global Insight. She is also responsible for developing and managing the company's global environmental consulting engagements. With 25 years experience at Global Insight, she has expertise in North American fossil fuel and electric power market analysis and environmental policy analysis.

She has a graduate degree in Economics from the University of Maryland.

C. Kenneth Orski
Transportation NewsBriefs

C. Kenneth Orski is editor and publisher of Innovation NewsBriefs, an influential and widely read transportation newsletter, now in its 19th year of publication. Mr. Orski has worked professionally in the field of transportation for close to 40 years. He served as Associate Administrator of the Urban Mass Transportation Administration under President Nixon and President Ford and, after leaving government, founded a transportation consultancy counseling private clients and agencies in federal, state and local government. He has served on numerous state and federal transportation advisory bodies including, most recently, the Blue Ribbon Panel of the congressionally-chartered National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Commission. Earlier in his career, he served as an executive of the General Dynamics Corporation and a senior officer in the United States Foreign Service. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College and holds a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School.

Orszag Peter Orszag
Congressional Budget Office

Peter R. Orszag is the seventh Director of CBO. His four-year term began on January 18, 2007.

Before joining CBO, Dr. Orszag was the Joseph A. Pechman Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution. While at Brookings, he also served as Director of The Hamilton Project; Director of the Retirement Security Project; and Codirector of the Tax Policy Center, a joint venture with the Urban Institute.

In previous government service, Dr. Orszag served as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Senior Economic Adviser at the National Economic Council during 1997 and 1998. Earlier, he served as a staff economist and then Senior Adviser and Senior Economist at the President's Council of Economic Advisers.

Dr. Orszag graduated summa cum laude in economics from Princeton University and obtained an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in economics from the London School of Economics, which he attended as a Marshall scholar. He has coauthored or coedited a number of books, including Protecting the Homeland 2006/7 (2006), Aging Gracefully: Ideas to Improve Retirement Security in America (2006), Saving Social Security: A Balanced Approach (2004), and American Economic Policy in the 1990s (2002).

Dr. Orszag is an avid runner and the proud father of two children, Leila and Joshua.

Michael Parr
DuPont

Jeffrey Passell
Pew Hispanic Center

A nationally known expert on immigration to the United States and the demography racial and ethnic groups, Passel formerly served as principal research associate at the Urban Institute's Labor, Human Services and Population Center. Passel has authored numerous studies on immigrant populations in America, focusing on such topics as undocumented immigration, the economic and fiscal impact of the foreign born, and the impact of welfare reform on immigrant populations.

Paulson Henry M. Paulson, Jr.
Secretary of the Treasury

President George W. Bush nominated Henry M. Paulson, Jr. to be the 74th Secretary of the Treasury on June 19, 2006. The United States Senate unanimously confirmed Paulson to the position on June 28, 2006 and he was sworn into office on July 10, 2006 by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. As Treasury Secretary, Paulson is the President's leading policy advisor on a broad range of domestic and international economic issues.

Before coming to Treasury, Paulson was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Goldman Sachs. He joined Goldman Sachs in 1974 in the Chicago Office and became a partner in 1982. From 1983 until 1988, Paulson headed up Investment Banking Services for the Midwest Region and became Managing Partner of the Chicago Office in 1988. In 1990, he was named Co-head of the firm's investment Banking Division, and in 1994 he rose to the position of President and Chief Operating Officer. In 1998, he was named Co-Senior partner, and with the firm's public offering in 1999, became Chairman and CEO.

Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Paulson was a member of the White House Domestic Council, serving as Staff Assistant to the President from 1972 to 1973, and as Staff Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon from 1970 to 1972.

Paulson graduated from Dartmouth in 1968, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and All Ivy, All East, and honorable mention All American for football. He received an M.B.A. from Harvard in 1970. He and his wife, Wendy, have two children, Amanda and Merritt.

Richard Peach
Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Dick Peach is a Senior Vice President in the Macroeconomic and Monetary Studies Function of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He participates in the development of the Bank's forecast for the U.S. economy and oversees the Bank's projections of federal receipts and outlays. His long-term research interests have been primarily in housing and real estate finance topics. Prior to joining the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in June of 1992, he was Staff Vice President and Deputy Chief Economist of the Mortgage Bankers Association of America (MBA). He played a key role in the development of MBA's Weekly Survey of Mortgage Loan Applications, a closely watched indicator of conditions in housing and mortgage markets. Prior to joining the MBA in 1986, he was Staff Vice President for Forecasting and Policy Analysis of the National Association of Realtors (NAR).

His fields of interest include: Alternative measures of inflation; Federal fiscal policy; Housing and real estate finance; U.S. macro forecast.

He has a Ph.D., Economics, University of Maryland, August, 1983; M.A., Economics, University of Maryland, May, 1979; B.S., Economics, Pennsylvania State, June, 1973.

Pizer William A. Pizer
Resources for the Future

Billy Pizer is a Senior Fellow and Research Director at Resources for the Future where his research looks at how the design of environmental policy affects costs and environmental effectiveness, often related to global climate change. His research has examined the aggregate level and distribution of regulatory costs, the effect of uncertainty on policy outcomes, the choice among various market-based policies, the role of voluntary programs, impacts on competitiveness, the importance of technological change, and the valuation of environmental benefits over long time horizons.

Pizer was a Lead Author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 4th Assessment Report, chaired the DOE review of its Integrated Assessment Research Program, and serves on both the EPA Environmental Economics Advisory Committee and the DOE Climate Change Science Program Product Development Advisory Committee. Since August 2002, Pizer has worked part-time as a Senior Economist at the National Commission on Energy Policy. During 2001-2002, he served as a Senior Economist at the President's Council of Economic Advisers where he worked on environment and climate change issues. He was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University's Center for Environmental Science and Policy during 2000-2001, and taught part-time at Johns Hopkins University during 1997-1999. His work has been published in the Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, as well as other scholarly journals and books. In 2006 he won, with Richard Newell, the Petry Prize for their work on discounting.

Plosser Charles Plosser
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia President

Charles I. Plosser became the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia's 10th president and chief executive officer on August 1, 2006. Before coming to Philadelphia, he was the John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics and Public Policy and director of the Bradley Policy Research Center at the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration , where he also served as dean from 1993 to 2003. He was also a professor of economics in the Department of Economics at the University of Rochester, a senior research associate at the Rochester Center for Economic Research in the university's College of Arts and Science, and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has also been a visiting scholar at the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.

Plosser has lectured to academic and business audiences worldwide on topics ranging from management education to economic and public policy issues. The author of numerous academic articles and a participant in scores of professional seminars and conferences, Plosser has also served as co-editor or associate editor of three prestigious journals of economics and referee for over a dozen others. His research and teaching interests include topics on monetary and fiscal policy, long-term economic growth, and banking and financial markets, and his articles have appeared in numerous leading economic journals.

Plosser earned Ph.D. and M.B.A. degrees from the University of Chicago, and he received a bachelor of engineering degree (cum laude with honors) from Vanderbilt University.

Plosser has served as a consultant to numerous corporations, including Chase Manhattan Bank, Eastman Kodak Company, and The Wyatt Company, on topics ranging from strategic planning and forecasting to portfolioand pension fund management, capital budgeting, and financial analysis. He has served as an advisory board member of the Rochester New Enterprise Forum, the Metropolitan Advisory Board of Chase Manhattan Bank, and the University Technology Seed Fund, LLC.

Plosser served as chairman of the Board of Directors of the Consortium for Graduate Study in Management from 1995 to 1997. From 1996 to 2000, he served on the Board of Directors of ViaHealth, Inc., where he also served as secretary, member of the Executive Committee, and chair of the Governance Committee.

Ben Plowman
Luna Innovations

Ben Plowman is Sr. Vice President of Corporate Business Development at Luna Innovations. Ben played a key role in establishing the Danville nanoWorks division through a public-private partnership which included federal, state and local resources to establish a one-of-a-kind nanotechnology facility in Southern Virginia. Luna's nanoWorks division is developing high value, carbonaceous materials and nanomaterial-based solutions for defense and commercial applications. This project has aided in transforming the area's economy by promoting a high-technology image for the region and bringing in "new economy" jobs.

Posen Adam Posen
Peterson Institute for International Economics

Adam Posen is Deputy Director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, DC, where he has been a Senior Fellow since 1997. His research focuses on macroeconomic policy and performance, European and Japanese political economy, and central banking issues. The Institute will publish his new book, Reform and Growth in a Rich Country: Germany, partially supported by a major grant from the German Marshall Fund of the United States, in early 2008. As Deputy Director, he leads the Institute’s recruitment of senior researchers and its outreach initiatives to press and the general public, coordinates with partner research institutions and Institute supporters, and oversees adminstration and finance for the Institute’s $9 million annual budget and 48 person staff.

A widely-cited expert on monetary policy, he has been a visiting scholar at central banks worldwide, including on multiple occasions at the Federal Reserve Board, the European Central Bank, and the Deutsche Bundesbank. In 2006, he was on sabbatical leave from the Peterson Institute as a Houblon-Norman Senior Fellow at the Bank of England. He has also been a consultant to several U.S. government agencies (including the Departments of State and Treasury and the Council of Economic Advisors), the European Commission, the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry, and to the International Monetary Fund on a variety of economic and foreign policy issues. He is a member of the Panel of Economic Advisers to the Congressional Budget Office for 2007-09.

Dr. Posen is the author of the book Restoring Japan’s Economic Growth (IIE, 1998; Japanese translation, 1999), the co-author with Ben Bernanke, et al, of Inflation Targeting: Lessons from the International Experience (Princeton University Press, 1999), and the editor and part-author of three collected volumes: The Euro at Five: Ready for a Global Role? (IIE, 2005); The Future of Monetary Policy (Blackwell, forthcoming); and The Japanese Financial Crisis and its Parallels with U.S. Experience (IIE, 2000; Japanese Translation, 2001). He has also published more than thirty papers on monetary and fiscal policy in leading economics journals, academic and central bank conference volumes. He co-founded and chairs the editorial board of the refereed journal International Finance.

He is a frequent contributor to the opinion page of the Financial Times, and has also published in Foreign Affairs, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Die Zeit, and the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, among many other leading newspapers. He is the Associate Editor of The International Economy magazine, for which he writes a regular column “The Monetary Realist”, and he also writes a monthly column for the German national paper Welt am Sonntag. Dr. Posen has been a consultant on fixed-income and foreign exchange markets to some of the leading global financial companies and private investment firms.

From 1994-1997, he was an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where he advised senior management on monetary strategies, the G-7 economic outlook, and European monetary unification. In 1993-94, he was Okun Memorial Fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution, and won the Amex Bank Review Awards Silver Medal for his dissertation research on central bank independence. In 1992-93, he was resident in Germany as a Bosch Foundation Fellow.He received his Ph.D. and his A.B. (Phi Beta Kappa) from Harvard University, where he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow.

Dr. Posen is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a research associate of the Center for the Japanese Economy and Business of Columbia University, a fellow of the CESifo Research Network, and has been a Public Policy Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin (in 2001).

Theodore Prince
Consolidated Chassis Management, LLC

Mr. Prince is President, Consolidated Chassis Management, LLC. CCM was formed in 2005 to develop and own chassis pools. It currently has over 60,000 chassis under management at pools in Denver, Salt Lake City, Tampa, Memphis, Nashville, Savannah, Charlotte, Charleston, Jacksonville, and Atlanta. CCM is an affiliate of the Ocean Carrier Equipment Management Association, Inc., an association of 19 major international ocean carriers

Mr. Prince has spent his career of over 25 years in the transportation industry. He was formerly Vice President of Intermodal and International for Kansas City Southern. He was previously Chief Operating Officer, responsible for the management and profitability of “K” Line’s North American trades. He was with “K” Line America for ten years. Prior to that, he was with Conrail and its motor carrier subsidiary for nine years.

Mr. Prince also has extensive experience in the information technology sector – as both a user and provider. He spent five years as Senior Vice President for Optimization Alternatives Limited, which develops and deploys large-scale control and decision support systems that manage the day-to-day operations of major international railroads.

Over the years, Mr. Prince has provided consulting and expert testimony for a variety of customers, carriers, transportation intermediaries and eCommerce providers. Engagements included supply chain improvement, eCommerce applications and acquisition support.

Mr. Prince is a graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, which awarded him a Bachelor of Science in Economics. He also received his Master of Science in Transportation from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Engineering and Applied Sciences in 1990. His thesis, Double Stack Transportation as a Means to Domestic Containerization, served as a business plan to increase domestic business by 300% in two years.

Mr. Prince is active in many industry organizations. He is Chairman of the Intermodal Association of North America (IANA) and was a member of the Eno Transportation Foundation Board of Advisors. A frequent lecturer at universities, he is Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Denver University’s Intermodal Transportation Institute (ITI.) He is also on the Business Advisory Council for Northwestern University’s Transportation Center and the Global Maritime and Transportation School (GMATS) at the United States Merchant Marine Academy.

A firm believer in public-private partnerships, Mr. Prince has participated in numerous advisory roles for the public sector. He is currently the Intermodal Vice Chairman for the US Department of Transportation’s Maritime Transportation System National Advisory Council (MTSNAC.)

His column, Moving Right Along, appears monthly in the Journal of Commerce.

He is married to the former Sara Ziegler, and has two children, Carol (16) and Kiper (14.)

Maia Pykina
TTX Company

Maia Pykina is Manager of Forecasting and Planning at TTX Company. Her specialties include intermodal Forecasting, Rail Volume Forecasting, Strategic Planning, and Economic and Industry Analysis.

She holds an M.S. from the University of Denver in Intermodal Transportation, an M.B.A. from Loyola University of Chicago, and a B.S. from Volgogradskij Gosudarstvennyj Universitet.

Vincent Reinhart
American Enterprise Institute

A former director of the Federal Reserve Board’s Division of Monetary Affairs, Vincent R. Reinhart has spent more than two decades working on domestic and international aspects of U.S. monetary policy. He held a number of senior positions in the Divisions of Monetary Affairs and International Finance and served for the last six years of his Federal Reserve career as Secretary and Economist of the Federal Open Market Committee. Reinhart worked on topics as varied as economic bubbles and the conduct of monetary policy, auctions of U.S. Treasury securities, alternative strategies for monetary policy, and the efficient communication of monetary policy decisions.

He holds a M.Phil. and M.A., Columbia University and a B.S., Fordham University.

Andrew Rozanov
State Street Global Advisers

Andrew Rozanov is Head of Sovereign Advisory at State Street Global Markets, the investment research and trading arm of State Street Corporation. For the last four years, he has been advising and servicing central banks and sovereign wealth funds on various aspects of reserve management. In the past, he worked in State Street’s Japan office as a fund manager and product engineer, focusing on global fixed income, currency and asset allocation. Andrew also worked as a Director in the Equity Capital Markets Group at UBS Investment Bank in Tokyo, originating and executing equity block trades and convertible bond transactions for Japanese corporate clients.

Andrew has a Master’s Degree in Oriental Studies (with concentration in Japan) from Moscow University. He has lived, studied and worked in Japan for a total of 20 years, and is fluent in English, Russian and Japanese. He is a CFA Charterholder, and also holds designations of Financial Risk Manager (FRM) from the Global Association of Risk Professionals and Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) from the CAIA Association. Andrew’s work has been published in the Wall Street Journal, Central Banking Quarterly Journal, The World Today and Vedomosti financial daily. His research has been quoted or referenced in Euromoney, The Economist, Finance Asia, Les Echos, Smart Money and RGE Monitor.

Richard Seline
New Economy Strategies

Richard Seline is Principal and Founder, New Economy Strategies, Inc. New Economy Strategies LLC is a national - and increasingly international - consultancy in technology-based economic development with a focus on building regional innovation capacity. NES has three 'divisions' - Engagements, Digital Data Tools, and Research Services.

Richard Seline's interests include Innovation capacity building at the regional level among critical stakeholders of the science, technology, and entrepreneurial arenas coupled with the civic leadership to implement strategic thinking and plans. Therefore - innovation, entrepreneurship, science and technology business models, economic and workforce development, capital formation are all important elements of my knowledge space.

Robert Shackleton
Congressional Budget Office

Silvia 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.

Kenneth D. Simonson
Associated General Contractors of America

Ken Simonson joined AGC of America on September 10, 2001. Ever since Day Two he has been provided insight into what was happening to the economy and what it implied for construction and related industries.

Ken’s weekly one-page email newsletter for AGC, The Data DIGest, provides 6000 readers with the latest economic news relevant to construction. He also sends out a variety of state-specific and tax news. He is interviewed and quoted almost daily by local and national media, including The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Business Week, and CNBC. In addition, he has written eight booklets explaining tax provisions in plain English, and he contributes frequently to a variety of business and professional publications and conferences, including columns for Fleet Owner, a trucking magazine, and The Electrical Distributor.

Ken has 30 years of experience analyzing, advocating and communicating about economic and tax issues. Before joining AGC, he was senior economic advisor in the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Office of Advocacy and 13 years. Earlier, he was vice president and chief economist for the American Trucking Associations. He also worked with the President’s Commission on Industrial Competitiveness, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, and an economic consulting firm.

Ken is a board member of the National Association for Business Economics (NABE) and author of “Digging into Construction Data,” published in NABE’s journal, Business Economics. Since 1982, he has co-chaired the Tax Economists Forum, a professional meeting group he co-founded for leading researchers and policy makers among tax economists. He is vice president of Community Tax Aid, an organization that prepares returns for free for low-income taxpayers. He was one of the principal subjects of The Lobbyists, a bestseller by Jeffrey Birnbaum, now a writer for the Washington Post.

Ken has a BA in economics from the University of Chicago, an MA in economics from Northwestern University, and he has taken advanced graduate economics courses at the Universite de Paris, Johns Hopkins University and Georgetown University.

David A. Smith
House Financial Services Committee

Snaith Sean Snaith
University of Central Florida

Sean Snaith, Ph.D., is the Director of the Institute for Economic Competitiveness within the College of Business Administration at the University of Central Florida and is a widely recognized economist in the field of business and economic forecasting.

As an award-winning forecaster, researcher, and professor, Snaith is always interested in the application of academic expertise to the solution of real world problems. Snaith has served as a consultant for a client list ranging from local and regional municipalities to multi-national corporations, including Compaq, Dell and IBM. Snaith has held teaching positions at Pennsylvania State University, American University in Cairo, University of North Dakota and University of the Pacific.

Snaith frequently appears in national and regional media and is sought after as a speaker. Renowned for his engaging presentations, one business editor wrote, “Snaith (has) an uncanny knack of making economics not only understandable but interesting.”

Snaith is a member of several economic organizations and national forecasting panels including USA Today’s Survey of Top Economists, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia’s Survey of Professional Forecasters and the Livingston Survey. Snaith holds a B.S. in Economics from Allegheny College and an M.A and Ph.D. in Economics from Pennsylvania State University.

Charles Steindel
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 Institute 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, Tax rebate.

C. Eugene Steuerle
The Urban Institute

Eugene Steuerle is a senior fellow at The Urban Institute, codirector of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, columnist for Tax Notes, and the author or editor of 11 books, more than 150 reports and articles, more than 50 Congressional testimonies or reports, and more than 600 columns. His latest book is Contemporary Tax Policy. He serves on the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics and on advisory panels or boards for the Congressional Budget Office, the General Accounting Office, the Joint Committee on Taxation, the Actuarial Foundation, and the Independent Sector.

Previous positions include president of the National Tax Association (2001-2002), chair of the 1999 Technical Panel advising Social Security on its methods and assumptions, president of the National Economists Club Educational Foundation, deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury for tax analysis (1987-1989), and resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Between 1984 and 1986, he served as economic coordinator and original organizer of the Treasury's tax reform effort, for which Treasury and White House officials have written that tax reform "would not have moved forward without your early leadership."

Dr. Steuerle's other books include: Social Security and the Family (coedited with Melissa Favreault and Frank Sammartino) and Nonprofits and Government (coedited with Elizabeth Boris). His columns have appeared mainly in three series: "Straight Talk on Social Security and Retirement Policy" for the Urban Institute, "Economic Perspective" for Tax Notes, and an "After Tax" column for the Financial Times.

Dr. Steuerle also has undertaken various missions for International Monetary Fund to China, Singapore, and Slovakia, while the government of Barbados undertook a tax reform effort modeled after a report that he coauthored as head of another mission.

Marc Sumerlin
The Lindsey Group

Marc Sumerlin is Managing Director and co-founder of The Lindsey Group. Previously, Mr. Sumerlin served as Deputy Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Deputy Director of the National Economic Council for President George W. Bush. Prior to the White House, Mr. Sumerlin was Economic Policy Advisor at the Bush-Cheney 2000 campaign where he advised then-Governor Bush on economic matters. He has also worked as a Senior Analyst and Assistant Economist to the U.S. Senate Budget Committee, a Research Assistant to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and an Accountant with KPMG Peat Marwick.

Mr. Sumerlin holds Master of Arts in Applied Economics from Johns Hopkins University and has a Master of Public Policy from Duke University, where he was a Senator Jacob Javits Fellow. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Georgetown University with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. He is a member of Beta Gamma Sigma, the honor society for business school students, and is a term member at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is the author of numerous articles and the co-author of What a President Should Know…but Most Learn Too Late.

Daniel K. Tarullo
Georgetown University

Daniel K. Tarullo is Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center and a non-resident senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. He teaches and writes in the areas of international economic law, banking and financial regulation, and the relationship between foreign policy and economic policy. During the Clinton Administration he was, successively, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, Deputy Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, and Assistant to the President for International Economic Policy. In March 1995, President Clinton appointed Tarullo as his personal representative (“sherpa”) to the G-7/G-8 group of industrialized nations. Before joining the Administration in 1993, Professor Tarullo had practiced law in Washington, served on the staff of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, and taught at Harvard Law School.

Chris Varvares
Macroeconomic Advisers

Chris Varvares is President of Macroeconomic Advisers, a company he co-founded with Joel Prakken and Laurence Meyer as Laurence H. Meyer & Associates in 1982. The firm became Macroeconomic Advisers in June of 1996 when Dr. Meyer left the firm to join the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Dr. Meyer returned to the firm in the summer of 2002 following his term at the Fed.

Mr. Varvares has over 25 years of experience in macroeconomic forecasting and policy analysis, both as a principal of Macroeconomic Advisers (1982 to present) and as a member of the staff of the President's Council of Economic Advisers (1981-1982). While at the Council, he served as a member of the U.S. delegation to the OECD in April 1982. Mr. Varvares is the Vice President (9/2007-9/2008) and a former director of the National Association for Business Economics, served as President of the St. Louis chapter, and is a member of the American Economic Association. He serves as a member of Time Magazine’s Board of Economists, is a member of the New York State Economic and Revenue Advisory Board, and has been a panelist for the World Economic Forum.

He and the other principals of Macroeconomic Advisers serve as consultants to key agencies of the U.S., Canadian, Japanese, and U.K. governments, major trade associations, and private corporations and are widely quoted in the business and financial media. The firm is recognized as among the most accurate forecasters of the U.S. economy. A 2006 study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta found that Macroeconomic Advisers had the best forecasting track record of any forecaster in the Blue Chip Economic Indicators panel over the 19 years included in the study. The firm also won the 2006 Annual Forecasting Award of the National Association of Business Economics and twice has won the Annual Forecasting Award for the highest forecast accuracy among participants in the Blue Chip Economic Indicators, and would have been the only three-time winner of the award if not for a rule that precluded winning in two consecutive years. Macroeconomic Advisers is also a prominent participant in the debates over the macroeconomic effects of federal budget and tax policy, and monetary policy.

Mr. Varvares holds a B.A. in Economics from The George Washington University and received his graduate training in economics from Washington University in St. Louis.

Viard Alan Viard
American Enterprise Institute

Prior to joining AEI, Alan Viard was a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and an assistant professor of economics at Ohio State University. He has also worked for the Treasury Department’s Office of Tax Analysis, the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers, and the Joint Committee on Taxation of the U.S. Congress. Viard is also a frequent contributor to AEI's Tax Policy Outlook.

He has a Ph.D., M.A., economics, Harvard University and a B.A., economics, Yale University.

Wang Jone-Lin Wang
Cambridge Energy Research Associates

Jone-Lin Wang, CERA Senior Director and Head of Global Power Group, is an expert on electricity markets, economics, and strategy. Dr. Wang’s current research focuses on power industry structure, power market fundamentals, economics of generation options, and the resurgence of nuclear power. Dr. Wang speaks about electric power issues frequently and works with clients on business strategy and market fundamentals. She is an elected member of the Conference of Business Economists.

Prior to joining CERA, Dr. Wang was Manager of Corporate Strategic Planning at the Electric Power Research Institute, responsible for analysis of industry trends, formulation of business strategies, and assessment of new businesses. Earlier in her career, Dr. Wang was a research associate at the Council of Economic Planning and Development of the Taiwan government, where she directed studies on energy modeling and emergency planning. She also taught economics at the University of Southern California. Dr. Wang holds a BS from National Taiwan University and a PhD from the University of Southern California.

Weaver Karen Weaver
Deutsche Bank

Karen Weaver is a Managing Director and the Global Head of Securitization Research, responsible for Deutsche Bank’s research on securitized fixed-income products (i.e. ABS, MBS, CDOs and CMBS). Regionally, Ms. Weaver also manages Deutsche Bank Research-Americas, which has 300 professionals covering economics, debt, and equity markets. Karen joined Deutsche Bank from Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) in 2000. Prior to joining CSFB, she was a portfolio manager active in the ABS and MBS markets. Karen is a graduate of Temple University, where she studied Statistics and Economics as an undergraduate, and Finance at the graduate level. She is also a Chartered Financial Analyst. Karen is a contributing author to numerous books on mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities, and has appeared on Bloomberg News, CNBC, and the ABC Evening News. Karen and her team have earned many industry accolades, including rankings in Institutional Investor, Global Investor, Euromoney and Credit Magazine.

Roy Webb
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

Roy Webb is a Research Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. His main research interest is tracking the economy and developing a coherent explanation of significant trends and events. A related interest that has generated several papers is the use of VAR models for macroeconomic forecasting

Nancy Wentzler
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

Nancy Wentzler is deputy comptroller for Global Banking and Financial Analysis in the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).

Ms. Wenztler is in charge of the economic and financial analysis of potential risks to the banking system and the development of risk models to serve as early warning tools for such risks.

Prior to her work at the OCC, she served from 1991 through 1994 with the Office of Thrift Supervision in charge of the development of systems for early identification of problem thrifts and provided regular reports through press conferences on the thrift crisis.

From 1989 through 1990, she was economic advisor and subsequently inspector general with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and from 1980 through1989 she served as senior economist with the Office of Management and Budget. Ms. Wentzler held an adjunct professor position with Virginia Tech from 1989 through 2000.

She holds a doctorate in economics from the University of Wisconsin and bachelor's of science in economics and business from Penn State University.

Zandi Mark Zandi
Moody's Economy.com

Mark Zandi is Chief Economist and co-founder of Moody’s Economy.com, Inc., where he directs the company’s research and consulting activities. Moody’s Economy.com is an independent subsidiary of the Moody’s Corporation and provides economic research and consulting services to businesses, governments and other institutions. Mark’s research interests include macroeconomic, financial, and regional economics. Recent areas of research include studying the determinants of mortgage foreclosure and personal bankruptcy, an analysis of the economic impact of various tax and government spending policies, and an assessment of the appropriate policy response to bubbles in asset markets. In addition, Mark conducts regular briefings on the economy. He is frequently quoted in national and global news outlets. Dr. Zandi received his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania, where he did his research with Gerard Adams and Nobel Laureate Lawrence Klein, and he received his B.S. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.