Speakers

Confirmed speakers for the 2010 Economic Policy Conference

Jesse M. Abraham
Vice President
Wells Fargo Home Mortgage

Jesse Abraham is a Vice President at Wells Fargo Home Mortgage. Previously, he has been a Vice President at Freddie Mac, Manager of Forecasting at FW Dodge, and Senior Economist at Data Resources, Inc. He has a BS in Mathematics from MIT and an PHD in Economics from Princeton University.

Robert Atkinson
President
Information Technology and Innovation Foundation

Robert Atkinson is the founder and president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a Washington, DC-based technology policy think tank. He is also author of the State New Economy Index series and the book, The Past And Future Of America’s Economy: Long Waves Of Innovation That Power Cycles Of Growth (Edward Elgar, 2005). He has an extensive background in technology policy, he has conducted ground-breaking research projects on technology and innovation, is a valued adviser to state and national policy makers, and a popular speaker on innovation policy nationally and internationally.

Before coming to ITIF, Dr. Atkinson was Vice President of the Progressive Policy Institute and Director of PPI’s Technology & New Economy Project. While at PPI he wrote numerous research reports on technology and innovation policy, including on issues such as broadband telecommunications, Internet telephony, universal service, e-commerce, e-government, middleman opposition to e-commerce, privacy, copyright, RFID and smart cards, the role of IT in homeland security, the R&D tax credit, offshoring, and growth economics.

Previously Dr. Atkinson served as the first Executive Director of the Rhode Island Economic Policy Council, a public-private partnership including as members the Governor, legislative leaders, and corporate and labor leaders. As head of RIEPC, he was responsible for drafting a comprehensive economic strategic development plan for the state, developing a ten-point economic development plan, and working to successfully implement all ten proposals through the legislative and administrative branches. Prior to that he was Project Director at the former Congressional Office of Technology Assessment. While at OTA, he directed The Technological Reshaping of Metropolitan America, a seminal report examining the impact of the information technology revolution on America’s urban areas.

Sheila Bair
Chairman
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Sheila C. Bair was sworn in as the 19th Chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) on June 26, 2006. She was appointed Chairman for a five-year term, and as a member of the FDIC Board of Directors through July 2013.

Chairman Bair has an extensive background in banking and finance in a career that has taken her from Capitol Hill, to academia, to the highest levels of government. Before joining the FDIC in 2006, she was the Dean's Professor of Financial Regulatory Policy for the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst since 2002. While there, she also served on the FDIC's Advisory Committee on Banking Policy.

Other career experience includes serving as Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions at the U.S. Department of the Treasury (2001 to 2002), Senior Vice President for Government Relations of the New York Stock Exchange (1995 to 2000), a Commissioner and Acting Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (1991 to 1995), and Research Director, Deputy Counsel and Counsel to Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole (1981 to 1988).

As FDIC Chairman, Ms. Bair has presided over a tumultuous period in the nation’s financial sector. Her innovations have transformed the agency with programs that provide temporary liquidity guarantees, increases in deposit insurance limits, and systematic loan modifications to troubled borrowers. Ms. Bair’s work at the FDIC has also focused on consumer protection and economic inclusion. She has championed the creation of an Advisory Committee on Economic Inclusion, seminal research on small-dollar loan programs, and the formation of broad-based alliances in nine regional markets to bring underserved populations into the financial mainstream.

Since becoming FDIC Chairman, Ms. Bair has received a number of prestigious honors. Among them, in 2009 she was named one of Time Magazine’s “Time 100” most influential people; awarded the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award; and received the Hubert H. Humphrey Civil Rights Award. In 2008, Chairman Bair topped The Wall Street Journal’s annual 50 “Women to Watch List.” That same year, Forbes Magazine named Ms. Bair as the second most powerful woman in the world after Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Chairman Bair has also received several honors for her published work on financial issues, including her educational writings on money and finance for children, and for professional achievement. Among the honors she has received are: Distinguished Achievement Award, Association of Education Publishers (2005); Personal Service Feature of the Year, and Author of the Month Awards, Highlights Magazine for Children (2002, 2003 and 2004); and The Treasury Medal (2002). Her first children’s book – Rock, Brock and the Savings Shock, was published in 2006 and her second, Isabel’s Car Wash, in 2008.

Chairman Bair received a bachelor's degree from Kansas University and a J.D. from Kansas University School of Law. She is married to Scott P. Cooper and has two children.

Michael Bird
Senior Federal Affairs Counsel
National Conference of State Legislatures

Fatih Birol
Chief Economist
International Energy Agency

Dr. Fatih Birol is the Chief Economist of the International Energy Agency, with overall responsibility for the organisation’s economic analysis of energy and climate change policy. He oversees the annual World Energy Outlook which is the flagship publication of the IEA and is recognised as the most authoritative source for energy analysis and projections. He is also responsible for the IEA Energy Business Council which provides policymakers with a business perspective on energy market issues. He is a frequent contributor to media and delivers numerous speeches each year at major international summits and conferences.

Throughout his career, Dr. Birol has been decorated with numerous awards in recognition of his contribution to the energy debate. He was recently named by Forbes Magazine as the world’s fourth most powerful person in terms of influence on the world’s energy scene. In 2009, alongside awards from the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Polish Ministry of Economy, Dr. Birol was honoured with the Federal Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. He was awarded the Golden Honour Medal of the Austrian Republic in 2007 and was made a Chevalier dans l’ordre des Palmes Academique by the French Government in 2006. He received the annual award of the International Association of Energy Economics for ‘Outstanding Contribution to the Profession’ in 2005. These followed awards from the U.S. Department of Energy in 2004 and the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2002.

Prior to joining the IEA in 1995, Dr. Birol worked for six years at the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in Vienna.

A Turkish citizen, Dr. Birol was born in Ankara in 1958. He earned a BSc degree in power engineering from the Technical University of Istanbul. He received his MSc and PhD in energy economics from the Technical University of Vienna.

Donald J. Boyd
Senior Fellow
Nelson J. Rockefeller Institute of Government

Donald J. Boyd is a senior fellow and the former director of State and Local Government Finance research group. Boyd has over two decades of experience analyzing state and local fiscal issues, and has written or co-authored many of the program’s reports on the fiscal climate in the 50 states. His previous positions include director of the economic and revenue staff for the New York State Division of the Budget and director of the tax staff for the New York State Assembly Ways and Means Committee. Boyd holds a Ph.D. in managerial economics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.

Andrew Brod
Director of the Center for Business and Economic Research
University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Dr. Andrew Brod is the Director of the Center for Business and Economic Research in the Bryan School of Business and Economics at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Dr. Brod is also a consultant in the field of forensic economics and litigation support. His forensic work has focused on lost profits, lost earnings, antitrust, and economic development.

Stan Collender
Managing Director
Qorvis Communications

Stan Collender’s financial and public affairs communications experience is extensive. During his three decades in communications, he has designed and implemented award-winning communications efforts for financial companies, Wall Street firms, trade associations, and federal agencies. Prior to joining Qorvis, Collender was the general manager of the Washington Office of Financial Dynamics Business Communications where he rapidly built their corporate and public affairs client base in DC, directed FD’s efforts to establish a public affairs practice in the United States and significantly enhanced the agency’s global public affairs capabilities.

Before joining Financial Dynamics, Collender was national director of public affairs for Fleishman Hillard and a senior vice president at Burson-Marsteller. He also served as the director of federal budget policy for two major international accounting firms—Price Waterhouse and Touche Ross—and as president of the Budget Research Group, a private Washington-based consulting organization.

Collender also has extensive experience on Capitol Hill and is considered to be one of the leading experts on the U.S. budget and congressional budget process. He is one of only a handful of people who has worked for the House and Senate Budget Committees and has worked for three U.S. representatives who served on the House Budget and Ways and Means Committees.

Collender holds a master’s degree in Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.A. from New York University in Politics and Psychology.

Charlie Cook
Publisher
Cook Political Report

Charlie Cook is Publisher of The Cook Political Report, and political analyst for the National Journal Group, where he writes weekly for National Journal magazine and CongressDailyAM. He also writes a regular column for the Washington Quarterly, published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and is a political analyst for NBC News.

Widely regarded as one of the nation’s leading authorities on U.S. elections and political trends, Charlie has appeared on the ABC, CBS and NBC evening news programs, as well as on "Good Morning America," the "Today Show," "Nightline," "Meet the Press with Tim Russert," and "This Week…." He has also appeared many times on CNBC, MSNBC, CNN, C-SPAN and National Public Radio.

Before joining the National Journal Group in June of 1998, Charlie wrote for 12 years a twice-weekly column in Roll Call, the newspaper of Capitol Hill. Charlie also served as an election night analyst for CBS in 1990 and 1992, and for NBC since 1994.

The New York Times has called Cook, "...one of the best political handicappers in the nation" and noted that The Cook Political Report is "...a newsletter that both parties regard as authoritative," while Bob Schieffer of CBS News has called the Cook Political Report, "the bible of the political community." The Wall Street Journal's Al Hunt once referred to Cook as "the Picasso of election analysis," while David Broder of The Washington Post has written that Charlie Cook is "perhaps the best non-partisan tracker of Congressional races."

David Cutler
Professor, Department of Economics
Harvard University

David Cutler has developed an impressive record of achievement in both academia and the public sector. He served as Assistant Professor of Economics from 1991 to 1995, was named John L. Loeb Associate Professor of Social Sciences in 1995, and received tenure in 1997. He is currently the Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics in the department of economics and Kennedy School of Government and recently completed a five-year term as associate dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for Social Sciences.

Honored for his scholarly work and singled out for outstanding mentorship of graduate students, Professor Cutler's work in health economics and public economics has earned him significant academic and public acclaim. Professor Cutler served on the Council of Economic Advisers and the National Economic Council during the Clinton Administration and was senior health care advisor to Barack Obama's Presidential campaign. Professor Cutler also advised the Presidential campaign of Bill Bradley. Among other affiliations, Professor Cutler has held positions with the National Institutes of Health and the National Academy of Sciences. Currently, Professor Cutler is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a member of the Institute of Medicine.

Professor Cutler is the author of Your Money Or Your Life: Strong Medicine for America's Health Care System, published by Oxford University Press. This book, and Professor Cutler's ideas, were the subject of a feature article in the New York Times Magazine, The Quality Cure, by Roger Lowenstein. Cutler was recently named one of the 30 people who could have a powerful impact on healthcare by Modern Healthcare magazine and one of the 50 most influential men aged 45 and younger by Details magazine.

Kathleen DeBoer
OECD

Mark Doms
Chief Economist
Department of Commerce

Prior to his appointment as Chief Economist at the Economics and Statistics Administration, Dr. Doms worked as a Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and was previously in the Research and Statistics Division of the Board of Governors. He has wide experience with economic and policy analysis on a range of topics. His own research has focused on the effects of technology adoption and innovation, on firm productivity, and on housing market changes. Dr. Doms also spent time at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, and in the early 1990s worked at the Center for Economic Studies in Census. He holds a Ph.D in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and B.A. from the University of Maryland Baltimore County in mathematics and economics.

Shawn DuBravac
Chief Economist
Consumer Electronics Association

Shawn DuBravac, CFA is the chief economist for the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) where he directs CEA’s economic analysis. He is responsible for handling analysis of the economy as it relates to the consumer electronics industry including forecasting future economic activity, econometric studies, examining trade flows, and ascertaining relative health of the industry. DuBravac also provides research into the technology trends underpinning the industry and quantitative support for CEA’s legislative initiatives.

Douglas Elmendorf
Director
Congressional Budget Office

Douglas W. Elmendorf is the eighth Director of CBO. His term began on January 22, 2009.

Before he came to CBO, Doug Elmendorf was a senior fellow in the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution. As the Edward M. Bernstein Scholar, he served as coeditor of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity and the director of the Hamilton Project, an initiative to promote broadly shared economic growth.

Doug Elmendorf was previously an assistant professor at Harvard University, a principal analyst at the Congressional Budget Office, a senior economist at the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers, a deputy assistant secretary for economic policy at the Treasury Department, and an assistant director of the Division of Research and Statistics at the Federal Reserve Board. In those positions, he worked on budget policy, Social Security, Medicare, national health care reform, financial markets, macroeconomic analysis and forecasting, and other topics. He earned his Ph.D. and A.M. in economics from Harvard University, where he was a National Science Foundation graduate fellow, and his A.B. summa cum laude from Princeton University.

Bert Ely
Principal
Ely & Company

Bert Ely has specialized in deposit insurance and banking structure issues since 1981. Bert first established his consulting practice in 1972. Before tha, he was the chief financial officer of a public company, a consultant with Touche, Ross & compnay, and an auditor with ernst & Ernst. He received his MBA from the Harvard Business School oin 1968 and his Bahelor's degree in Economics in 1964 from Case Western Reserve University.

Charles Evans
President and CEO
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Charles L. Evans is the ninth president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. In that capacity, he serves on the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), the Federal Reserve System's monetary policy-making body.

Before becoming president, Evans served as director of research and senior vice president, supervising the Bank's research on monetary policy, banking, financial markets and regional economic conditions. Prior to that, Evans was a vice president and senior economist with responsibility for the macroeconomics research group.

His personal research has focused on measuring the effects of monetary policy on U.S. economic activity, inflation and financial market prices. It has been published in the Journal of Political Economy, American Economic Review, Journal of Monetary Economics, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the Handbook of Macroeconomics.

Evans has taught at the University of Chicago, the University of Michigan and the University of South Carolina. He received a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Virginia and a doctorate in economics from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

He is married and has two children.

Linda Fishman
American Hospital Association

Linda Fishman is Senior Vice President, Public Policy Analysis & Development, at the American Hospital Association.

Timothy Flynn
Chief Economist
House Budget Committee

Ben Friedman
Harvard University

Benjamin M. Friedman is the William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy, and formerly Chairman of the Department of Economics, at Harvard University. His latest book is The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth, published in 2005 by Alfred A. Knopf. Mr. Friedman's best known previous book is Day of Reckoning: The Consequences of American Economic Policy Under Reagan and After, which received the George S. Eccles Prize, awarded annually by Columbia University for excellence in writing about economics.

In addition to Day of Reckoning and The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth, Mr. Friedman has written extensively on economic policy, and in particular on the role of the financial markets in shaping how monetary and fiscal policies affect overall economic activity. Specific subjects of his work include the effects of government deficits and surpluses on interest rates, exchange rates, and business investment; appropriate guidelines for the conduct of U.S. monetary policy; and appropriate policy actions in response to crises in a country's banking or financial system. He is the author and/or editor of eleven books aimed primarily at economists and economic policymakers, as well as the author of more than one hundred articles on monetary economics, macroeconomics, and monetary and fiscal policy, published in numerous journals. He is also a frequent contributor to publications reaching a broader audience, including especially The New York Review of Books.

Mr. Friedman's current professional activities include serving as a director and member of the editorial board of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, a director of the Private Export Funding Corporation, a trustee of the Pioneer Funds, a director of the National Council on Economic Education, and an adviser to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. In addition, he has served as director of financial markets and monetary economics research at the National Bureau of Economic Research, as a member of the National Science Foundation Subcommittee on Economics, as an adviser to the Congressional Budget Office, as a trustee of the College Retirement Equities Fund, and as a director of the American Friends of Cambridge University. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Mr. Friedman joined the Harvard faculty in 1972. Before then he worked with Morgan Stanley & Co., investment bankers in New York. He had also worked in consulting or other capacities with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Mr. Friedman received the A.B., A.M. and Ph.D. degrees in economics from Harvard University; during his graduate study at Harvard he was a Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows. In addition, he received the M.Sc. degree in economics and politics from King's College, Cambridge (U.K.), where he studied as a Marshall Scholar.

Among other awards, Mr. Friedman was the 2005-6 recipient of the John R. Commons Award, presented every two years in recognition of achievements in economics and service to the economics profession, and in 2008 he received the Medal of the Italian Senate.

Jospeh Gagnon
Senior Fellow
Peterson Institution for International Economics

oseph E. Gagnon, senior fellow since September 2009, was visiting associate director, Division of Monetary Affairs (2008–09) at the US Federal Reserve Board. Previously he served at the US Federal Reserve Board as associate director, Division of International Finance (1999–2008), and senior economist (1987–1990 and 1991–97). He has also served at the US Treasury Department (1994–95 and 1997–1999) and has taught at the University of California’s Haas School of Business (1990–91). He has published numerous articles in economics journals, including the Journal of International Economics, the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Review of International Economics, and the Journal of International Money and Finance, and has contributed to several edited volumes.

William Gale
The Brookings Institution

William Gale is the Arjay and Frances Miller Chair in Federal Economic Policy in the Economic Studies Program at Brookings. His research focuses on tax policy, fiscal policy, pensions and saving behavior. He is co-director of the Tax Policy Center, a joint venture of the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute. He is also director of the Retirement Security Project, an initiative supported by the Pew Charitable Trusts, in partnership with Georgetown University’s Public Policy Institute and Brookings. From 2006 to 2009, he served as a Vice President of Brookings and Director of the Economic Studies Program.

Prior to joining Brookings in 1992, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a senior staff economist for the Council of Economic Advisers under President George H.W. Bush.

He is the co-editor of several books, including Automatic: Changing the Way America Saves (Brookings 2009); Aging Gracefully: Ideas to Improve Retirement Security in America (Century Foundation, 2006); The Evolving Pension System: Trends, Effects, and Proposals for Reform (Brookings, 2005); Private Pensions and Public Policy (Brookings, 2004); Rethinking Estate and Gift Taxation (Brookings, 2001), and Economic Effects of Fundamental Tax Reform (Brookings, 1996).

His research has been published in several scholarly journals, including the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, and Quarterly Journal of Economics. He has also written extensively in policy-related publications and newspapers.

Gale has served on advisory boards for the Government Accountability Office, the Internal Revenue Service, the Joint Committee on Taxation and the Board of the Center on Federal Financial Institutions and on editorial boards for several academic journals.

Gale attended Duke University and the London School of Economics and received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1987.

William Galston
Senior Fellow
The Brookings Institution

William Galston is the Ezra K. Zilkha Chair in Governance Studies and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He joined the Brookings Institution on January 1, 2006. Formerly the Saul Stern Professor and Dean at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, Dr. Galston specializes in issues of American public philosophy and political institutions.

He is working on several high-profile projects pertaining to core questions of American public philosophy. Among these are how to ensure equity between generations in an aging society, and how to advance policies that are in the nation's long-term interest in a political environment biased toward short-term gains. He also will continue to be a leading contributor to a wide-ranging exploration of the causes, consequences, and possible correction of polarized politics, an initiative that Brookings undertook in partnership with the Hoover Institution, and he is a co-organizer of a bipartisan working group on immigration reform.

After serving as a sergeant in the United States Marine Corps and then receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1973, Galston taught for nearly a decade in the Department of Government at the University of Texas. From 1998 until 2005 he was professor of public policy at the University of Maryland. In the 1990s, he served as deputy assistant for domestic policy to President Clinton, and later as executive director for the National Commission on Civic Renewal. Dr. Galston was the director of the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, an organization he founded with support from the Pew Charitable Trusts, and also director of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, both located at the University of Maryland.

He is the author of eight books and more than one hundred articles on questions of political and moral philosophy, American politics and public policy. His most recent book is Public Matters: Politics, Policy, and Religion in the 21st Century (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005). Galston is also a co- author of Democracy at Risk: How Political Choices Undermine Citizen Participation and What We Can Do About It, published by the Brookings Press.

Howard Glaser
Principal
The Glaser Group

Howard B. Glaser is one of Washington’s leading mortgage and financial service industry analysts.
Prior to establishing his consulting practice, Mr. Glaser served as Senior Vice President for Government Affairs and General Counsel at the Mortgage Bankers Association of America.

From 1994 to 2000, Mr. Glaser served in several senior management roles at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, including Counselor to Secretary Andrew Cuomo, Deputy Assistant Secretary, and Acting General Counsel. For his work in reforming federal housing programs, Mr. Glaser was a recipient of the 1996 John F. Kennedy School of Government “Innovations in Government” award.

Before joining the federal government, Mr. Glaser was a senior advisor to New York Governor Mario Cuomo.
Mr. Glaser has testified before Congress numerous times and is a regular advisor to congressional committees on real estate finance and housing industry issues. His analysis is frequently sought and reported by the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, CNBC, Washington Post, American Banker and other media.

Mr. Glaser is a graduate of Harvard Law School and is a member of the New York State Bar.

John Haltiwanger
Professor, University of Maryland at College Park, and
Research Associate, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau

John C. Haltiwanger, Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland, received his PhD from the Johns Hopkins University in 1981. After serving on the faculty of UCLA and Johns Hopkins, he joined the faculty at Maryland in 1987. In the late 1990s, he served as Chief Economist of the U.S. Census Bureau. He is a Senior Research Fellow with the Longitudinal Employer Household Dynamics Program at the Bureau of the Census and a Research Associate of the Center for Economic Studies at the Bureau of the Census and of the National Bureau of Economic Research. His recent research has exploited the newly created longitudinal establishment data bases and the longitudinal matched employer-employee data bases that are available at the Bureau of the Census. This research centers on the churning of firms, jobs, and workers in the U.S. economy and the implications of this churning for U.S. productivity growth and the dynamics of the labor market. He has published more than 80 academic articles and numerous books including Job Creation and Destruction (with Steven Davis and Scott Schuh, MIT Press) and Economic Turbulence: Is a Volatile Economy Good for America? (With Clair Brown and Julia Lane, University of Chicago Press).

Steve Hanke
Senior Fellow
Cato Institute

Janet Harrah
Center for Economic Analysis and Development
Northern Kentucky University

Janet Harrah is Senior Director at the Center for Economic Analysis and Development at Northern Kentucky University. Prior to that she was a Director at CEDBR at Wichita State University. She has a Bachelor's in Economics from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and a Master's in Economics from Wichita State University.

Frank Hatheway
Chief Economist
NASDAQ OMX

Frank M. Hatheway is Chief Economist of the NASDAQ OMX Group Inc., and is responsible for a variety of projects and initiatives to support the markets and improve market structure. Since joining NASDAQ OMX, he has carried out a number of studies on the role of stock markets in the economy, developed NASDAQ’s opening and closing auctions, and advised on major corporate initiative. His current projects include evaluating the impacts of regulatory reform proposals on OTC derivatives and of high frequency trading on equity markets.

Prior to joining NASDAQ OMX, Dr. Hatheway was a finance professor at Penn State University and a researcher in market microstructure. He has authored academic articles in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Intermediation and other leading finance journals. Dr. Hatheway has served as an Economic Fellow and Senior Research Scholar with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and received his Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University.

Nayantara Hensel
Chief Economist
Department of the Navy

Dr. Nayantara Hensel is the Chief Economist for the Department of the Navy. She provides economic guidance on growth projections, the federal budget, interest rates, unemployment, exchange rates, inflation, the financial health of defense contractors, as well as trends in the broader economy and in the defense sector. Dr. Hensel received her BA, MA, and Ph,D. from Harvard University, where she graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa and specialized in finance and economics. She has taught at Harvard University, the Stern School of Business at New York University (NYU), and the US Naval Postgraduate School’s Graduate School of Business and Public Policy. In the private sector, Dr. Hensel previously served as Senior Manager and Chief Economist for Ernst & Young’s litigation advisory group, managing economist for the New York City office of the Law and Economics Consulting Group (LECG), and an economist in the economic consulting arm of Marsh & McLennan. Dr. Hensel has written over 30 articles and research reports. Her recent research has focused on globalization and the US defense industrial base (the USAF tanker competition), the role of defense mergers in improving weapons systems cost efficiency, efficiency in IPO auctions relative to traditional processes, the factors impacting discount rates for US Marine Corps personnel, and market structure-specific and firm-specific factors impacting economies of scale and density in European and Japanese banks. She has published in the International Journal of Managerial Finance, the Review of Financial Economics, Business Economics, the European Financial Management Journal, the Journal of Financial Transformation, and Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. She is the Chair of the Financial Roundtable for the National Association of Business Economists (NABE) and is one of 34 elected members to NBEIC, which is a group composed of the top corporate economists in the US. Dr. Hensel has given seminars at a number of institutions and has appeared on CNBC, Bloomberg Radio, and CNNMoney.

David Huether
Chief Economist
National Association of Manufacturers

Paul Hughes-Cromwick
Altarum Institute

David Kotok
Co-founder and CIO
Cumberland Advisors

David R. Kotok is the Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Cumberland Advisors. He cofounded the firm in 1973 and has guided its investment strategy from inception. Mr. Kotok holds a B.S. degree in economics from The Wharton School as well as dual master’s degrees from the University of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Kotok maintains an active global presence as the Director and Program Chairman of the Global Interdependence Center (GIC), a Philadelphia-based global trade and monetary policy think tank. Mr. Kotok is the global chair of the GIC 2009-2010 Capital Markets Series that will be held in successive meetings in Vietnam, China, Chile, Czech Republic, France, and Philadelphia. He most recently chaired the GIC 2009 Food & Water Conference Series with meetings held in Philadelphia, Paris, Livingstone (Zambia), and Singapore.

Mr. Kotok’s articles and financial market commentary have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, and other publications. He is a frequent contributor to CNBC programs, including Morning Call, Power Lunch, Kudlow & Company, Squawk on the Street, Squawk Box Asia, and Worldwide Exchange.

Mr. Kotok is a member of the National Business Economics Issues Council (NBEIC), the National Association for Business Economics (NABE), the Philadelphia Council for Business Economics (PCBE), and the Philadelphia Financial Economists Group (PFEG). He has also served as a Commissioner of the Delaware River Port Authority (DRPA), on the Treasury Transition Teams for New Jersey Governors Kean and Whitman, on the board of the New Jersey Economic Development Authority, and as Chairman of the New Jersey Casino Reinvestment Development Authority.

Don Losman
National Defense University

Dr. Don Losman began teaching at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces (ICAF) in 1982 and also holds a diploma from ICAF. He has worked in senior professional military education since 1978, having taught at the U.S. Army War College and the National War College as well. Earlier, he was a civilian academic for 14 years. Dr. Losman holds a PhD in international economics from the University of Florida, with a minor in international politics. He has also served as a consultant to the Small Business Administration and the World Bank; he has worked in the Pentagon and for an economic consulting corporation. Dr. Losman is the author of four books, over 60 scholarly articles, and op-ed pieces in all our nation's leading newspapers as well as in overseas publications. He has regional expertise in the Middle East and is recognized as an authority on economic sanctions. He also has expertise in defense industrial base issues and the electronics industries.

Functional Expertise:
International Trade & Finance - Defense Industrial Base & Mobilization - Economic Leverage & Sanctions - Public Finance - Comparative Economic Systems - Economic Development

Regional Expertise:
Middle East - Persian Gulf

Clay Lowery
Managing Director, Glover Park Group, and
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs, 2005-2009

Clay Lowery is a Managing Director with The Glover Park Group. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University in the area of international finance.

Previously, Lowery served as the Assistant Secretary for International Affairs at the U.S. Treasury Department from 2005 to 2009. As Assistant Secretary, Lowery chaired CFIUS, which is the government committee designed to review international mergers and acquisitions to determine the effects of such transactions on the national security of the U.S. He was the government’s point person on Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) activities and oversaw the negotiation of SWF investment principles at both the IMF and OECD. During this time, he was either the Finance Deputy of Deputy Deputy to the G20, G7, and the Financial Stability Forum. He has also served as the Acting Under Secretary for International Affairs, and been appointed by the President at various times to be the United States representative to the Boards of the World Bank, AfDB, EBRD, and IDB.

Lowery’s responsibilities included guidance and oversight in the areas of economic and financial diplomacy, monetary and banking issues, currency strategy, U.S. participation in the international financial institutions, trade and investment policies, and development policy.

Prior to his service as Assistant Secretary, Lowery was Vice President of Markets and Sector Assessments at the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). MCC is a government corporation designed to provide foreign assistance to the poorest countries based on strong policy performance.

From 1994 to 2004, Lowery served at the Treasury Department in a variety of positions, most recently as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Debt and Development Finance. In 2001 and 2002, Lowery worked as the Director of International Finance at the National Security Council (NSC) — advising the National Security Advisor and the President on policy responses to financial crises in emerging market countries.

Lowery has also worked at the New York branch of the German bank Bayerische Vereinsbank, and from 1990 to 1993, was involved in managing projects and monitoring elections, primarily in Africa, for the International Republican Institute, a democracy development group.

Lowery graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Virginia and earned a Masters of Science in Economics at the London School of Economics.

John Mothersole
Principal , Industry Practices Group
IHS Global Insight

John Mothersole is a Principal in the Industry Practices Group, where he is the nonferrous metals analyst. He also helps supervise the Pricing and Purchasing Service's price and wage forecasts and the construction cost and operation and maintenance costs forecasts prepared by the group's Power Planner Service. He has a graduate degree in economics from the University of Maryland.

Joseph P. Mulloy
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Budget
US Departmnet of Defense

Born in New York City, Rear Admiral Mulloy grew up moving about America as the son of a naval officer. He graduated with distinction from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1979 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Marine Engineering. He also attended Harvard Graduate School of Business, graduating in 1987 with a Masters of Business Administration.

His operational submarine assignments were aboard USS Trepang (SSN 674), PCU Miami (SSN 755) as engineer officer, USS Puffer (SSN 652) as executive officer. He served as commanding officer of USS San Juan (SSN 751) and commander Submarine Squadron 15 in Apra Harbor, Guam. In addition to the normal SSN deployments, Mulloy has twice deployed to the Arctic and has surfaced at the North Pole.

Mulloy’s significant shore assignments include tours as Plans and Briefing officer and the Special Operations assistant to the Special Operations Division of the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI-009G), Financial officer at the Pentagon in Operations Division, Office of Budget and Reports (NAVCOMPT), deputy commander of Submarine Squadron 4, executive assistant to the director, Submarine Warfare Division for the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (DCNO N7/N8), Division chief of the Program, Budget and Analysis Division (PBAD) for Chairman of Joint Chiefs (JCS J8). Mulloy’s first flag assignment was as deputy chief of staff for Plans, Policies and Requirements, U.S. Pacific Fleet (N5N8), followed by a short tour as director, Programming Division, OPNAV (N80). He assumed his current responsibilities as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Budget (FMB) / Director, Fiscal Management Division, OPNAV (N82) in October 2009.

Mulloy’s personal decorations include the Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit (three awards), Meritorious Service Medal (four awards), the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal (three awards), and the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal (two awards).

James Owens
Chairman and CEO
Caterpillar, Inc.

Jim Owens is chairman and chief executive officer of Caterpillar Inc. in Peoria, Ill. After joining the company in 1972 as a corporate economist, he has held numerous management positions.

Owens was named chief economist of Caterpillar Overseas S.A. in Geneva, Switzerland in 1975. From 1980 until 1987 he held managerial positions in Peoria in the Accounting and Product Source Planning Departments. In 1987 he became managing director of P.T. Natra Raya, Caterpillar's joint venture in Indonesia. He held that position until 1990, when he was elected a corporate vice president and named president of Solar Turbines Incorporated, a Caterpillar subsidiary in San Diego, Calif. In 1993, he came to Peoria as vice president and chief financial officer with administrative responsibility for the Corporate Services Division.

In 1995, Owens was named a group president and member of Caterpillar’s Executive Office. Over the next eight years as a group president, Owens was at various times responsible for 13 of the company’s 25 divisions. In December 2003, the Caterpillar Board of Directors named Owens vice chairman and appointed him chairman and chief executive officer effective February 1, 2004.

Owens, a native of Elizabeth City, N.C., graduated from North Carolina State University in 1973 with a Ph.D. in economics.

He is a director of Alcoa Inc. in Pittsburgh, Pa. and IBM Corporation in Armonk, N.Y. Owens is a director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics; a director of the Council on Foreign Relations; and a member of the Global Advisory Council to The Conference Board in New York. He is chairman of the International Trade and Investment Task Force of the Business Roundtable; chairman of the Business Council; and a member of the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board in Washington, D.C.

Ajay Rajadhyaksha
Head of US Fixed Income and Securitized Strategy
Barclays Capital

Ajay Rajadhyaksha is a Managing Director and Head of US Fixed INcome Straegy at Barclays Capital.

Alicia Robb
Senior Research Fellow
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

Alicia Robb is a Senior Research Fellow at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, and also a Senior Economist at Beacon Economics. She has also served as the Executive Director of The Foundaiton for Sustainable Development, as an Economist at the Federal Reserve Board, and as an Economist at the SBA.

She has a PhD in Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Christina Romer
Chair
Council of Economic Advisers

Christina Romer is Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers.

Romer was the Class of 1957-Garff B. Wilson Professor of Economics at the University of California Berkeley. Before teaching at Berkeley, she taught economics and public affairs at Princeton University from 1985-1988.

Until her nomination, she was co-director of the Program in Monetary Economics at the National Bureau of Economic Research and served as Vice President of the American Economic Association, where she was also a member of the executive committee. She is also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Romer is known for her research on the causes and recovery of the Great Depression, and on the role that fiscal and monetary policy played in the country’s economic recovery. Her most recent work, authored with her husband David Romer, also an economics professor, shows the impact of tax policy on government and economic growth.

Her working papers include "A Narrative Analysis of Postwar Tax Changes," "Do Tax Cuts Starve the Beast? The Effect of Tax Changes on Government Spending," and "The Macroeconomic Effects of Tax Changes: Estimates Based on a New Measure of Fiscal Shocks."

Romer is the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, and the Distinguished Teaching Award at Berkeley.

Romer was born on December 25, 1958, in Alton, Ill., and received her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1985. She is married and has three children.

Jeff Rexhausen
Economic Center for Education and Research
University of Cincinnati

Brian Sack
Executive Vice President
Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Brian P. Sack is the executive vice president of the Markets Group at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He is also the Manager of the System Open Market Account for the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). The Markets Group oversees domestic open market and foreign exchange trading operations and the provisions of account services to foreign central banks.

Prior to joining the New York Fed, Mr. Sack was a vice president at Macroeconomic Advisers and the deputy director of the Monetary Policy Insights service offered by that firm. In that capacity, Mr. Sack conducted extensive analysis of the interactions between Federal Reserve policy actions, financial markets and the U.S. economy. Prior to joining Macroeconomics Advisers in 2004, Mr. Sack was the head of the Monetary and Financial Markets Analysis section at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. His responsibilities in that role included preparing materials on financial market developments for the FOMC and briefing Board members about those developments. Mr. Sack has also published a number of research articles in academic journals in the fields of economics and finance.

Mr. Sack received his doctorate in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1997 and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Vermont in 1992.

Matt Salomon
Chief Economist
Senate Budget Committee

Matt Salamon is the Chief Economist at the Senate Budget Committee, where he montiors economic developments and thier implciations for fiscal and monetary policy. Before this, he has served on the staffs of the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Senate, and the Congressional Budget Office. He has an MA in Political Economy from The Johns Hopkins University, a BA in Mathematics from Boston, University, and an MFA in English literature from American University.

Adam Saunders
University of Pennsylvania

Adam Saunders is a Lecturer in the Operations and Information Management Department at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. candidate at MIT's Sloan School of Management.

His research aims to quantify technology-related intangible assets that are playing a significant role in generating market value and productivity. He is also studying how IT is changing the competitive playing field among U.S. firms. With Erik Brynjolfsson, he is the co-author of Wired for Innovation: How Information Technology is Reshaping the Economy (MIT Press, 2009). His research has been featured in The Economist, Nature, and CIO Magazine.

Before entering MIT, Adam worked at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers in Washington, D.C. He holds an A.B. in Economics summa cum laude and a Certificate in Finance from Princeton University.

Stephen Seidel
Vice President - Policy Analysis & General Counsel
Pew Center on Global Climate Change

Stephen Seidel is the Vice President for Policy Analysis and General Counsel at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. He directs the domestic analysis program, including coordination and oversight of analyses, reports and workshops that focus on the climate policy initiatives of the legislative and executive branches of the federal government. He also oversees the Pew Center’s science and environmental impacts portfolio and, in capacity of General Counsel, reviews Pew Center contracts.

Mr. Seidel has over 20 years of experience working on global environmental issues. Prior to joining Pew Center, Mr. Seidel managed EPA’s Stratospheric Protection program including the development and implementation of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer and the regulatory and voluntary partnership programs developed under Title VI of the Clean Air Act. Mr. Seidel also served as a Senior Analyst at Council on Environmental Quality and the White House Climate Change Task Force. Under the auspices of the International Civil Aviation Organization, he co-chaired a multinational working group on market-based measures to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

Mr. Seidel has a degree in Economics and Urban Studies from Columbia University and a law degree and Masters in City Planning from Rutgers University.

Sean Snaith
Director, Institute for Economic Competitiveness
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.

Jürgen Stark
Member , Executive Board
European Central Bank

Jürgen Stark is a a Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank since June 2006.

Raised in Rhineland-Palatinate, he studied economics at the University of Hohenheim and Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. He received a doctorate in 1975. From 1978 to 1998 he held economic policy positions in the German Federal Government. From September 1998 to May 2006 he served two consecutive terms as Vice President of the Bundesbank.

He is also Honorary professor in the Faculty of Economics at Eberhard Karls University, Tübinge; Deputy Chairman of the Board of Trustees and the Executive Board of the ifo Institute, Munich (since 1999); and Chairman of the Board, University of Hildesheim Foundation (Lower Saxony) (since 2003).

Gabriel Stein
Director
Lombard Street Research

Gabriel Stein graduated from the Stockholm School of Economics with an MSc in 1980. In 1981 he worked for the International Relations Department of the Israeli Ministry of Finance. From 1982 to 1991 he ran his own economics and public affairs consultancy, Stein Brothers, first in Stockholm and from 1990 in London. He joined Lombard Street Research in 1991 and together with Brian Reading set up the World Service. He became a director in 1995. On behalf of the Adam Smith Institute he calculates Tax Freedom Day for the UK. He has written a dictionary of economic and financial terms and a short biography of Vilfredo Pareto. His research follows all global trends and his current areas of specialisation are the Eurozone, Germany, Poland, Sweden, Mexico, Australia and also the US.

Robert Strom
Director of Policy and Research
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

Robert Strom directs the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation’s commissioned research, working with the nation’s top scholars to advance knowledge in entrepreneurship. Strom also has served on the collegiate and youth entrepreneurship teams during his tenure at the Kauffman Foundation. Prior to joining the Kauffman Foundation, he was a visiting professor at the Bloch School of Business at the University of Missouri at Kansas City and vice president of the National Council on Economic Education. Strom also has been assistant vice president for public affairs at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, president of the Missouri Council on Economic Education, a professor of economics at the University of Missouri at Columbia, and a member of the economics department at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Strom holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Cincinnati. He has authored articles on economic education and entrepreneurship in professional journals and magazines, and has spoken extensively on entrepreneurship to professional and academic audiences.

Diane Swonk
Meisrow Financial

Diane Swonk is a senior managing director and chief economist for Mesirow Financial, a diversified financial services firm based in Chicago. As one of the most sought-after economists in the world, she is frequently called upon by policymakers and business leaders from Washington to Tokyo. Diane joined Mesirow Financial in 2004 after 19 years with Bank One Corporation and its predecessors. She started her career with the First Chicago Corporation in 1985 and quickly moved up the ranks, proving herself as a regional economist with her forecast for a renaissance in the Industrial Midwest just one year later. During her tenure with First Chicago, Diane published several nationally acclaimed studies as well as her first book, The Passionate Economist: Finding the Power and Humanity Behind the Numbers.

Diane sits on several advisory committees to the Federal Reserve Board, its regional banks and the Council of Economic Advisers for the White House. Most recently, she was re-appointed to serve on the Congressional Budget Office's panel of economic advisers. As one of the most quoted economists in the financial press, Diane is seen regularly on national and international television, and her commentary can be read in top financial news publications throughout the world. In addition, she serves as a clinical professor for DePaul University's highly-rated evening MBA program.

Diane currently serves on the Chicago Conservation Center's Advisory Board, is on the sitting committee for the University of Chicago—Graduate School of Business, and is an advisor to the Economic Department for the University of Michigan. She is also involved extensively with the Economic and Executives' Clubs of Chicago. Diane has also served on the Joffrey Ballet Board and chaired the City of Chicago's Climate Change Finance Committee.

Diane is past president of the National Association for Business Economics (NABE), a title that Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and several other Federal Reserve presidents have also shared. Diane was the youngest to serve as president in the association's history and continues to dedicate much of her time to improving the quality and timeliness of economic data, a critical aspect of policymaking.

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

Diane earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in economics with top honors from the University of Michigan as well as a master's degree in finance and strategic planning with top honors from the University of Chicago.

Margo Thorning
Chief Economist,
American Council for Capital Formation

Margo Thorning is senior vice president and chief economist with the American Council for Capital Formation and director of research for its public policy think tank. Dr. Thorning also serves as the managing director of the International Council for Capital Formation, a new think tank incorporated in Brussels. The ICCF is an affiliate of the ACCF.

In North America, Dr. Thorning has testified as an expert witness on capital formation and environmental issues before various U.S. congressional committees, including the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, the Joint Economic Committee, the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, the House Ways and Means Committee, the House Commerce Committee, and the House Committee on Government Reform. She recently made a presentation "Investing in Energy and Industrial Development: Challenges and Opportunities" at a UN Commission on Sustainable Development meeting. She also served on DOE's Electricity Advisory Board's Subcommittee on Standards of Conduct and Corporate Practices. She also has testified before the Senate of Canada on that country's proposals for tax reform.

Dr. Thorning is an internationally recognized expert on tax, environmental, and competitiveness issues. She writes and lectures on tax and economic policy, is frequently quoted in publications such as the Financial Times, Suddeutsche Zeitung, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal, and has appeared internationally on public affairs news programs. Dr. Thorning has made presentations on the economic impact of climate change policy at forums sponsored by the ICCF in China, India, other Asian countries, the European Union, and Russia.

Dr. Thorning is coeditor of numerous books on tax and environmental policy, including "Climate Change Policy and Economic Growth: A Way Forward to Ensure Both" and "The U.S. Savings Challenge: Policy Options for Productivity and Growth."

Previously, Dr. Thorning served at the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Department of Commerce, and the Federal Trade Commission.

Dr. Thorning received a B.A. from Texas Christian University, an M.A. in economics from the University of Texas, and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Georgia.

Greg Valliere
Chief Policy Strategist
Soleil Securities Corporation

John Williamson
Senior Fellow
The Peterson Institute for International Economics

John Williamson, senior fellow, has been associated with the Institute since 1981. He was project director for the UN High-Level Panel on Financing for Development (the Zedillo Report) in 2001; on leave as chief economist for South Asia at the World Bank during 1996–99; economics professor at Pontifica Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (1978–81), University of Warwick (1970–77), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1967, 1980), University of York (1963–68), and Princeton University (1962–63); adviser to the International Monetary Fund (1972–74); and economic consultant to the UK Treasury (1968–70). He is author, coauthor, editor, or coeditor of numerous studies on international monetary and development issues, including Reference Rates and the International Monetary System, Curbing the Boom-Bust Cycle: Stabilizing Capital Flows to Emerging Markets (2005), Dollar Adjustment: How Far? Against What? (2004), After the Washington Consensus: Restarting Growth and Reform in Latin America (2003), Delivering on Debt Relief: From IMF Gold to a New Aid Architecture (2002), Exchange Rate Regimes for Emerging Markets: Reviving the Intermediate Option (2000), The Crawling Band as an Exchange Rate Regime (1996), What Role for Currency Boards? (1995), Estimating Equilibrium Exchange Rates (1994), The Political Economy of Policy Reform (1993), Economic Consequences of Soviet Disintegration (1993), Trade and Payments after Soviet Disintegration (1992), From Soviet Disunion to Eastern Economic Community? with Oleh Havrylyshyn (1991), Currency Convertibility in Eastern Europe (1991), Latin American Adjustment: How Much Has Happened? (1990), and Targets and Indicators: A Blueprint for the International Coordination of Economic Policy with Marcus Miller (1987).