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John B. Taylor John B. Taylor, Chair

John B. Taylor is the Bowen H. and Janice Arthur McCoy Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University. He was previously the director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and was founding director of Stanford's Introductory Economics Center. He has a long and distinguished record of public service. Among other roles, he served as a member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors from 1989 to 1991 and as Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs from 2001 to 2005. He is currently a member of the California Governor's Council of Economic Advisors.

Gary S. Becker Gary S. Becker

Gary S. Becker, who won the Nobel Memorial Prize for Economic Science in 1992, is the Rose-Marie and Jack R. Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and University Professor of Economics and Sociology at the University of Chicago. He is an expert in human capital, economics of the family, and economic analysis of crime, discrimination, and population. His current research focuses on habits and addictions, formation of preferences, human capital, and population growth. He is a featured monthly columnist for Business Week magazine and is one of the initial fellows of the Society of Labor Economists. In addition to being a Nobel laureate, Becker is a recipient of the 2007 Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Michael Boskin Michael J. Boskin

Michael J. Boskin is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the T. M. Friedman Professor of Economics at Stanford University. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, serves on several federal advisory panels, and advises heads of state, finance ministries, and central banks around the world. Among other posts, he served as chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers from 1989 to 1993.

John D. Ciorciari John D. Ciorciari

John Ciorciari's research focuses on international politics and law. He is currently writing a book about alliance politics in the developing world and editing a book about the Khmer Rouge trials in Cambodia. He also has projects on Asian financial cooperation and the foreign relations of Myanmar, India, and Pakistan.

Before joining the Hoover Institution, Ciorciari was a Shorenstein Fellow at the Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford. He has also served as an official in the U.S. Treasury and an attorney at Davis Polk & Wardwell.

He holds an AB and JD from Harvard and a DPhil from Oxford.

John F. Cogan John F. Cogan

John F. Cogan is the Leonard and Shirley Ely Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor in the Public Policy Program at Stanford University. His current research is focused on U.S. budget and fiscal policy, social security, and health care. He has devoted a considerable part of his career to public service. He is a member of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's Council of Economic Advisers and serves on the governor's Public Employee Post-Employment Benefits Commission. He has also served on numerous congressional and presidential advisory commissions. He served deputy director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) from 1988 to 1989, associate director for economics and government and subsequently as associate director for human resources between 1983 and 1986, and as assistant secretary for policy in the U.S. Department of Labor from 1981 to 1983.

Andrew Crockett is president of J.P. Morgan Chase International. Andrew Crockett

Andrew Crockett is president of J.P. Morgan Chase International. Between 1994 and 2003, he served as general manager of the Bank for International Settlements. In 1999, he became the first chairman of the Financial Stability Forum. In his long and distinguished career in public service, he has also been an executive director of the Bank of England and an official of the International Monetary Fund. He remains a member of the Group of 30. He was educated at Queen’s College, Cambridge, and Yale University and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2003.

Darrell Duffie is the Dean Witter Distinguished Professor of Finance at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. Darrell Duffie

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Darrell Duffie is the Dean Witter Distinguished Professor of Finance at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. He has been on the finance faculty at Stanford since receiving his Ph.D. from Stanford in 1984. His recent research focuses on asset pricing, credit risk, fixed-income securities, and over-the-counter markets. Duffie is the President Elect of The American Finance Association, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a member of Moody's Academic Research Committee, the 2003 IAFE/Sunguard Financial Engineer of the Year, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is currently on the editorial boards of Econometrica and The Journal of Financial Economics, among other journals.

Joseph A. Grundfest

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Joseph A. Grundfest is the W.A. Franke Professor of Law and Business at Stanford Law School. He is a nationally recognized expert on capital markets, corporate governance, and securities litigation. He founded the award-winning Stanford Securities Class Action Clearinghouse, which provides detailed, online information about the prosecution, defense, and settlement of federal class action securities fraud litigation. He co-directs Directors' College, the nation's leading venue for the continuing professional education of directors of publicly traded corporations, as well as the Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance and the Stanford Program in Law, Economics, and Business. Before coming to Stanford in 1990, he was a commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission and served on the staff of the President's Council of Economic Advisors as counsel and senior economist for legal and regulatory matters.

John A. Gunn

John A. Gunn is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Dodge & Cox, Investment Managers. He joined Dodge & Cox in 1972 and is a Trustee of the Dodge & Cox Funds. He is a CFA® charterholder and a Chartered Investment Counselor. He currently serves as Chairman of the Advisory Council for the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and is a member of the Board of Trustees of Castilleja School, having served as Chairman of the Board from 2002 to 2005. He graduated from Stanford University in 1966 and received his M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1972.

Charles B. Johnson Charles B. Johnson

Charles B. Johnson is chairman and director of Franklin Resources, Inc. and various Franklin Templeton funds. He joined Franklin Distributors, Inc., as President and CEO in 1957 and assumed those positions for Franklin Resources when it was organized in 1969. He served as CEO until 2003. He is a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts and was elected chairman of the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) in 1992. He also served on various boards and and committees of the NASD from 1988 to 2002, as well as the Board of Governors of the Investment Company Institute from 1973 to 1988. He is a member of the Board of Overseers of the Hoover Institution and serves on the boards of a number of civic and charitable organizations.

Monika Piazzesi Monika Piazzesi

Monika Piazzesi is Professor of Economics at Stanford University. She is also a Research Affiliate at the NBER, a research affiliate for CEPR, a coeditor for the Journal of Political Economy, and an Affiliated Professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. In 2007–08, she served as a monetary advisor to the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. She researches financial economics, macroeconomics, and applied time series and has developed influential models of the yield curve for bonds. She has received numerous awards for her teaching and research. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, she taught at the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business and at UCLA’s Anderson School of Business. She holds a diploma in economics from the University of Bonn in Germany and PhD in economics from Stanford University.

John F. Powers John F. Powers

John F. Powers has been President and CEO of the Stanford Management Company (SMC) since June 2006. SMC is a division of Stanford University with oversight by a Board of Directors appointed by the University Board of Trustees. It was established in 1991 to manage Stanford's financial and real estate assets. From 2002 until 2006, Powers worked at Offit Hall Capital Management LLC as Managing Director and Director of Research. He was also a member of the firm’s Investment and Management Committees. He holds an A.B. from Cornell University and an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.

Martin Schneider Martin Schneider

Martin Schneider is Professor of Economics at Stanford University. He is also a research associate at NBER, a research fellow at CEPR and an Affiliated Professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. He has published widely on topics in macroeconomics, monetary policy, and financial markets. From 2005 to 2008, he served as a Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. He has also taught at the University of Rochester, UCLA, and NYU. He holds a PhD in economics from Stanford University and diploma in economics from the University of Bonn.

Kenneth E. Scott Kenneth E. Scott

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Kenneth E. Scott is the Ralph M. Parsons Professor of Law and Business, Emeritus and a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution. His research focuses on legislative and policy developments related to comparative corporate governance, bank regulation, and deposit insurance reform. He has extensive consulting experience, including turns with the World Bank, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Resolution Trust Corporation, and Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. He is also a member of the Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee, Financial Economists Roundtable, and the State Bar of California’s Financial Institutions Committee. Before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 1968, he was general counsel to the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, chief deputy savings and loan commissioner of California and worked in private practice in New York with Sullivan & Cromwell.

John Shoven John Shoven

John Shoven is the Buzz and Barbara McCoy Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Charles R. Schwab Professor of Economics, and director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. He has served as chairman of the economics department from 1986 to 1989, director of the Center for Economic Policy Research from 1989 to 1993, and dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences from 1993 to 1998. He is an expert on tax policy, Social Security, and U.S. savings patterns and was a consultant for the U.S. Treasury Department from 1975 to 1988.

George P. Shultz

George P. Shultz is the Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He was sworn in on July 16, 1982, as the sixtieth U.S. secretary of state and served until January 20, 1989. In January 1989, he rejoined Stanford University as the Jack Steele Parker Professor of International Economics at the Graduate School of Business and as a distinguished fellow at the Hoover Institution.

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