Ellen Hughes-Cromwick, NABE vice president and chief economist of Ford Motor Company, has been nominated for NABE president. Chris Varvares, president of Macroeconomic Advisers LLC, has been nominated for vice president. If elected, Hughes-Cromwick would succeed Carl Tannenbaum and Varvares would succeed Hughes-Cromwick to serve as NABE’s top officers for the 2007-2008 period. Tannenbaum, chief economist at LaSalle Bank/ABN AMRO, has served as president since last September.
Past President Stuart Hoffman, on behalf of the NABE nominating committee he chaired, also announced that eight candidates are on the ballot for five seats on the Board of Directors. Richard Brown, chief economist, FDIC, is unopposed for the two-year term of Patrick Casey. As announced early this year, Casey resigned from the board because his promotion at TTX Company vastly increased his workload. William Straus, senior economist and economic adviser at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, served the remainder of the term in 2007 and is among those running for the board for the upcoming year.
Also nominated for the 2007-2008 period are seven members who are running for four board slots, each with a three-year term. These seven candidates are: Strauss of the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank; Robert Fry, senior associate economist, DuPont; Doug Duncan, chief economist, Mortgage Bankers Association; Jacqueline Hudson, economist, Virginia Employment Commission; Gregory Miller, chief economist, SunTrust Banks; Harry Homan, senior director for strategic development, Fluor Corporation; and Paul Thomas, chief economist, Intel Corporation.
Nominating committee chairman Hoffman, chief economist, PNC Financial Services, thanked members of the nominating committee: Carl Tannenbaum; Rosemary Marcuss, deputy director, Bureau of Economic Analysis; Maurine Haver, president, Haver Analytics; Kevin Kliesen, economist, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; Jim Meil, chief economist, Eaton Corporation; and David Wyss, chief economist, Standard & Poor’s.
Ballots will be mailed to NABE members in June, along with instructions and return envelopes. You can return ballots by mail or vote electronically.
Ellen Hughes-Cromwick, NABE vice president and chief economist of Ford Motor Company, has been nominated for NABE president. Chris Varvares, president of Macroeconomic Advisers LLC, has been nominated for vice president. If elected, Hughes-Cromwick would succeed Carl Tannenbaum and Varvares would succeed Hughes-Cromwick to serve as NABE’s top officers for the 2007-2008 period. Tannenbaum, chief economist at LaSalle Bank/ABN AMRO, has served as president since last September.
Also nominated for the 2007-2008 period are seven members who are running for four board slots, each with a three-year term. These seven candidates are: Strauss of the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank; Robert Fry, senior associate economist, DuPont; Doug Duncan, chief economist, Mortgage Bankers Association; Jacqueline Hudson, economist, Virginia Employment Commission; Gregory Miller, chief economist, SunTrust Banks; Harry Homan, senior director for strategic development, Fluor Corporation; and Paul Thomas, chief economist, Intel Corporation.