Professor Matthew J. Slaughter
President Bush nominates Tuck professor to the Council of Economic Advisers
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - September 22, 2005
CONTACT: Kim Keating - 603-646-2733
HANOVER, N.H. - President George W. Bush has nominated Professor Matthew J. Slaughter of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth to become a member of the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA).
Located within the Executive Office of the President, the CEA was established by the Employment Act of 1946 to provide the President with objective economic analysis and advice on the development and implementation of a wide range of domestic and international economic policy issues. The CEA includes three members who are appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the U.S. Senate. One of the three is designated by the President as chairman; the current chairman is Ben Bernanke, a former member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and former professor at Princeton University.
In the words of the Employment Act of 1946, "The Council shall be composed of three members who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and each of whom shall be a person who, as a result of his training, experience, and attainments, is exceptionally qualified to analyze and interpret economic developments, to appraise programs and activities of the Government...and to formulate and recommend national economic policy to promote employment, production, and purchasing power under free competitive enterprise."
Professor Slaughter is an associate professor of business administration at the Tuck School. He joined the Tuck faculty in 2002 and teaches "Global Economics for Managers" and "Countries and Companies in the International Economy." From 1994 until he joined Tuck, he was an associate and assistant professor of economics at Dartmouth College. Professor Slaughter received his bachelor's degree summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Notre Dame in 1990. He received his doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1994.
"We are proud to have Professor Slaughter on our faculty," says Paul Danos, dean of the Tuck School. "This appointment recognizes his expertise and stature as an economist, and we know that his service will be of immense value to our country. We look forward to having him back at Tuck to continue his fine research and teaching after his term in Washington is completed."
Professor Slaughter's area of expertise is the economics and politics of globalization. His research has been supported by several grants from organizations including the National Science Foundation and the Russell Sage Foundation. His work has been widely published in academic journals and featured in the business media. He currently serves in editorial positions for several academic journals. In recent years, he has worked with both individual multinational firms and several industry organizations that support dialogue on issues of international trade, investment, and taxation.
He is also currently a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a visiting fellow at the Institute for International Economics. He has also been a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Board and the International Monetary Fund, a consultant at the World Bank and the U.S. Department of Labor, and a term member at the Council on Foreign Relations.
For more information on Professor Slaughter, visit his website at www.dartmouth.edu/~mjs. For more information on the Council of Economic Advisers, visit www.whitehouse.gov/cea. For the White House press release, visit www.whitehouse.gov/news/ releases/2005/09/20050921-12.html.
Founded in 1900, Tuck is the first graduate school of management and consistently ranks among the top business schools worldwide. Information about the Tuck School is available at www.tuck.dartmouth.edu.
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