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11- Prices
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Speakers
Maurine Haver
President
Haver Analytics
Maurine is President and founder of Haver Analytics Inc., an economic consulting and information services company. Prior to starting Haver Analytics in 1978, she was an economist in the economic forecasting group of General Electric in New York, a member of the International Staff of Companie Bull General Electric in Paris and a consultant in the Foreign Currency Exposure Management Group of the Chase Manhattan Bank in London.
Maurine served as President of the National Association of Business Economists (1994-95) and now chairs the NABE campaign for Quality Economic Data that she initiated during her year as president. In her role as Chair of the NABE Statistics Committee, she testifies before Congress on statistical issues, conducts quarterly meetings which bring together producers and users of federal statistics and organizes seminars to help users better understand the statistics available from government and private sources.
Maurine chairs the Business Research Advisory Council of the Bureau of Labor Statistics and is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Bureau of Economic Analysis. She has served as secretary of the Forecasters Club of New York since 1992. She is a past president of the New York Association for Business Economics (1989-90), the Downtown Economists Club (1993-94) and the Money Marketeers of New York University (1998-99). She chaired the board of the Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics (COPAFS) during 2001-2003. She currently serves on the board of Mutual of America and is a member of the American Economic Association, the American Statistical Association and the National Economists Club.
Maurine holds a B.S. in Economics and Mathematics from Michigan State University, an M.B.A. from the Stern School of New York University and completed her oral exam for a PhD in International Economics at NYU.
Michael W. Horrigan
Associate Commissioner in the Office of Prices and Living Conditions
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Since March 2007, Dr. Michael W. Horrigan has served as Associate Commissioner in the Office of Prices and Living Conditions at the BLS.
Mike has held several positions in his career at BLS.
Between October 2004 and March 2007, Dr. Michael W. Horrigan served as the Assistant Commissioner responsible for the Producer Price Index program. Prior to that he served as Assistant Commissioner for the office that publishes Occupational Employment Survey data and the biennial BLS long-term projections of industry and occupational employment. He also served as Director of both the BLS National Longitudinal Surveys Program and the BLS Establishment Surveys of Employer-Provided Training.
Other significant work experience includes heading the development team for the BLS American Time Use Survey and serving as a Senior Labor Economist on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers from 1990-1991.
He holds a doctorate in Economics from Purdue University and is the author of numerous publications, including articles on unemployment duration, earnings inequality, and measuring the demand for skills in the labor force.
Brendan Leary
Bureau of Economic Analysis
Brendan Leary is responsible for estimating portions of the Personal Consumption Expenditures for services at the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Since joining the Bureau in 2003 he has incorporated the Quarterly Services Survey data into current estimates of PCE for services, refined many non-market based price measures used in generating the overall PCE deflator and prepared estimates for the new PCE classification structure. Prior to joining BEA, Brendan was a researcher for The Democracy Collaborative concerned with the dynamics of retirement, health care spending and nonprofit institutions.
He received his BA in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland in 2000 and is currently studying for a doctorate in economics from American University.
Duncan Meldrum
Chief Economist
Air Products
Duncan Meldrum is the Chief Economist for Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., an $8.1 billion industrial gas company serving customers in over 30 countries. As Chief Economist, he assesses the impact of the economic environment on the company’s performance for the executive management team and develops global economic assumptions for the company’s operating plans. He provides operating groups with pricing assistance, contract support and market analyses. He also serves as the company’s economics spokesperson.
He received a B.S. degree from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1973, a M.S. degree in Operations Research from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in 1974, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Lehigh University in 1992. He is a member of the Advisory Committee to the U.S. Census Bureau. He serves as a director on the boards of the APCI Federal Credit Union and the nonprofit Parkette National Gymnastics Center. He is a past president of the National Association for Business Economics. His other professional associations include the Conference of Business Economists, the National Business Economic Issues Council, and the American Economics Association.
