Member News

Donui Agbokou is with ABP Investments, Schiphol, Netherlands.

Andrew Busch, of BMO Capital Markets in Chicago, has a new book, World Event Trading, forthcoming at Amazon.com.

Brad C. Gehrke is director global trade analysis with U.S. Dairy Export Council, Washington, D.C,

Robert F. Graboyes is senior health care advisor with National Federation of Independent Business, Washington, D.C.

Charles R. Plott, CalTech, was named to the National Academy of Sciences, making him the first economist named to the academy.
 
Kerry Sutten left the Bureau of Economic Analysis at the end of April after five years as assistant to the director of BEA.  He plans to remain a NABE member as he takes on a new job at the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) under the Office of the National Director of Intelligence.

Jeanne O’Neill, wife of long-time NABE member Robert Parker, died on June 5 after a long illness.  In recent years, she served in different positions as a manager and editor in the Tax Management subsidiary of BNA, Inc.  Bob is editor of the “Focus on Statistics” column in Business Economics, is a member of the NABE Statistics committee, and is NABE's representative to COPAFS and the Shiskin Award Committee.