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| Gardner Ackley PhD ‘40 Appointed to the President’s Council of Economic Advisers by President John F. Kennedy. In 1964 he is named chairman by Lyndon B. Johnson. Ackley was a member of the Economics faculty for 43 years. He also served as ambassador to Italy (1968-1969). In the 1970s Ackley served as a consultant to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, Council of Economic Advisers and the Secretary of the Treasury. He was also a member of the National Advisory Council on Social Security (1978-1980) and was president of the American Economic Association in 1982. Ackley was a member of the U-M faculty for 43 years. |
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Robert V. Roosa PhD ‘42 Served as Undersecretary of the Treasury for Monetary Affairs (1961-1964) during which time he was responsible for the management of the country’s debt and for handling such problems as curbing the outflow of gold and dollars from the United States, as well as setting the interest rates for the offerings of Government securities. After his government service, he was a general partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Company, a private bank in Wall Street, for 26 years. |
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Gail Wilensky AB ’65 econ, PhD ‘68 Economist and Senior Fellow Project Hope Wilensky directed the Medicare and Medicaid programs (1990 – 1992) and served in the White House as a senior health and welfare adviser to President George H.W. Bush. |
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Peter Hooper AM ’71 econ, PhD ‘75 Managing Director and Chief Economist Deutsche Bank Securities |
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Charles L. Betsey AB ’68 econ, PhD ‘76 Interim Dean of the Graduate School and Professor of Economics Howard University Co-Director of the Center on Race and Wealth funded by the Ford Foundation |
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James Andreoni AM ’84 econ, PhD ‘86 Professor of Economics University of California, San Diego |
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Chih-Chin Ho PhD ‘87 Dean of the College of Social Science National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan Minister of Finance for the Republic of China (Taiwan) 2006-2008 |
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Susanna Loeb PhD ‘98 Professor of Education Director of the Institute for Research on Education Policy and Practice (IREPP) Stanford University Co-director of Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE) |
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Marc Melitz MA ‘97econ, PhD ‘00 Professor of Economics Harvard University |
