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William Proxmire
U.S. Senator (Democrat), Wisconsin, 1975-1989
1964
Dr. Beryl Sprinkel Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers 1985-89, Reagan Administration
Charles Percy U.S. Senator - Illinois
Kenneth Haagenson Director of Public Relations, Allis-Chalmers
Dwight Hightower Partner Baker Hightower International Law Firm
1965
William Rothfelder Chief Economist, Inland Steel
Dr. Pierre Rinfret Chairman of the Board & Chief Economist
Robin Lowell Moore, Jr. American writer, author of The Green Berets, The French Connection. Also co-authored the lyrics for the Ballad of the Green Berets
Ernest Baughman VP & Director of Economic Research
1966
Dr. Arthur Burns Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chairman, Federal Reserve Board, 1970-78, Chairman, Council of Economic Advisors, 1953-56
John Grogan Consulting Actuary
Walter Morton Sr. Economist, U. of Wisconsin
Howard Sochurek Correspondent & Photographer, LIFE magazine
1967
Dr. Milton Friedman Professor, U. of Chicago, Nobel Prize Winner (1976)
John Gronouski U.S. Postmaster General
Curtiss Tarr V.P. & General Counsel
1968
A. R. Burnstan Associate Secretary, Dept. of Commerce
William Gasser Professor, School of Business, Rochester, NY
Haynes Johnson Pulitzer Prize winner for Journalism, Author
Steven Reiner Editor, U of Wisconsin School Newspaper
1969
Mr. Markov USSR Embassy
Robert Dederick Chief Economist, Northern Trust Co.
Paul Nadler Nadler Economist
James Hayes U.S. Congressman, Lousiana, 1987-1997
1970-1979 Click On Arrows To Open Or Close
1970
Tilford Gaines
Chief Economist
Walter Heller
Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers, 1961-64
John Weaver
President, University of Wisconsin
Peter Maas
Author
1971
Grant Butler
Author
Otto Eckstein
Chairman & Founder, Data Resources Inc.
Arnold Weber
University of Chicago Business School
1972
Alan Greenspan
Chairman, Federal Reserve Board, 1987-2006
Arthur Solomon
Director, Arthur D. Little, Inc.
Barber Conable
U.S. Congressman, N.Y., 1965-85
1973
Henry Reuss
U.S. Congressman, Wisconsin, 1955-1983
Prof. Paul McCracken
Chairman, Council of Economic Advisors, 1969-1971
John Connally
Secretary of the Treasury, 1971-72
Ezra Solomon
Council of Economic Advisers, 1971-73
1974
John Dunlop
Secretary of Labor
James E. Raffel
Sr. V.P. & Trust Investment Officer & Economist, Firstar Corp.
Ralph Salerno
District Attorney, New York City, N.Y.
Herbert Neil
Chief Economist, Harris Trust
George Schultz
Secretary of State
1975
Walter Fackler
Associate Dean, School of Business, U. of Chicago
Charles Walker
Congressional Lobbyist
Mr. William Simon
Secretary of Treasury
Arthur Okun
Council of Economic Advisers
1976
Andrew Brimmer
Member, Federal Reserve Board
George H. W Bush
President, United States
William Mazacco
Economic Adviser to the U.S. Information Agency (1972-1974)
Iben Browning
Author of "Climate and the Affairs of Men"
1977
Dr. Allan Meltzer
Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers
Dr. Martin Feldstein
Chairman, National Bureau of Economic Research
Sen. Robert Packwood
United State Senator, Oregon (1969-1995)
Ronald Haddock
President & CEO of FINA Corp.
1978
Patrick Lucey
Governor, State of Wisconsin
Dr. Lawrence Klein
Nobel Prize Winner, 1980
Dr. Raymond Jallow
Chief Economist, L.A. California
Charles Bartlett
Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
1979
Lawrence Kudlow
Chief Economist, Bear Sterns
Donald Rumsfeld
Secretary of Defense
Malcom Forbes
Publisher
Mark H. Willes
President, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (1977-80)
1980-1989 Click On Arrows To Open Or Close
1980
Jerry Jordan
President, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland; Member
Yale Brozen
Professor, University of Chicago
Carol Baumann
Deputy Secretary, Bureau of Intelligence, U.S. Department of State
Kevin Phillips
Political Strategist
1981
Marina Von Neumann Whitman
Chief Economist, General Motors
Irving Levine
Political Commentator
Karl Brunner
Professor, University of Rochester
Robert Genetski
Chief Economist, Harris Trust
1982
Robert Eggert
Blue Chip Economic Indicators
Sam Nakagama
Chief Economist, Kidder Peabody
David Mulford
Managing Director, Merrill Lynch
William Wilby
V.P. & Economist, Northern Trust Co.
1983
Dr. Henry Gailliot
Chief Economist, Federated Research Corp. of Pittsburgh
Robert Davis
President, Davis Financial Associates
George Gilder
Author, "Visible Man," "Wealth and Poverty"
Gar Alperovitz
Prof. Of Political Science, Howard University
1984
Anatol Balbach
Sr. Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Roy Moor
V.P. & Chief Economist, First Chicago Corp.
Manuel Johnson
Vice-Chairman, Federal Reserve Board
Gerald Corrigan
President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
1985
Don Nichols
Professor, University of Wisconsin; Director of LaFollete Institute, Madison, Wisconsin
Juanita Kreps
Secretary of Commerce
Clare Zempel
Chief Economist, Robert W. Baird
Frederick Amling
Prof. of Finance & Business, Graduate School, George Washington University
1986
John Rutledge
Member, Federal Reserve Board
Paul Craig Roberts
Professor, Georgetown University; Author; Columnist at "Business Week"
Dr. Walter Elliott
Professor of Free Enterprise, School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
David Hale
Chief Economist, Kemper Financial Co.
1987
Lawrence Chimerine
Sr. Economic Counselor, DRI/McGraw-Hill
Donald Strazheim
Chief Economist, Merrill Lynch
Alfred Kahn
Chairman, Civil Aeronautics Board
Irving Kristol
Editor, Wall Street Journal
1988
Michael Evans
President, Evans Economics
Arthur Laffer
President, A. Laffer Associates
Beryl Sprinkel
Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers
Lawrence Kudlow
Chief Economist, Bear Sterns & Co.
1989
Robert Genetski
President, Stotler Economics
Allen Sinai
President & CEO, The Boston Co.
David Hale
Chief Economist, Kemper Financial Corp.
David Wyss
Chief Financial Economist, DRI/McGraw-Hill
1990-1999 Click On Arrows To Open Or Close
1990
Charles Maxwell
Sr. Energy Strategist, C. J. Lawrence
Gail Fosler
Chief Economist, Conference Board
Gary Shilling
President, Gary Shilling Associates
Lawrence Korb
Sr. Fellow, Brookings Institution
1991
Dr. David Resler
Chief Economist, Nomura Securities Int
Dr. Bill Apgare
Professor, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Norman Ornstein
Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
Leon Kendall
Professor of Finance & Real Estate, Northwestern University
1992
James Miller, III
Director, Office of Management & Budget
James Smith
President, National Association for Business Economics
Bradlee Perry
Chairman of the Board, David L. Babson
Larry Lindsey
Governor, Federal Reserve Board
1993
David Hale
Chief Economist, Kemper Financial Co.
Gail Fosler
Chief Economist, Conference Board
Larry Meyer
Governor, Federal Reserve Board
Ethan Siegal
V.P. & Chief Washington Political Analyst, Prudential Securities
1994
Alan Reynolds
Director, Hudson Institute
Richard Hokenson
Chief Economist, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette
Newt Gingrich
Speaker, U.S. House of Representatives, 1979-1999
David Wyss
Chief Economist, Standard & Poor
1995
Clare Zempel
Chief Economist, R.W. Baird
Mark Melcher
Sr. Political Analyst, Prudential Securities
Steven Leuthold
Chairman & CEO, The Leuthold Group
Don Nichols
Professor, University of Wisconsin
1996
Joel Prakken
Chairman, Macroeconomic Advisers
James Harff
President, Ruder-Finn Global Public Affairs
Bradlee Perry
Chairman of the Board, David L. Babson
John Silvia
Managing Director, Chief Economist, Wells Fargo Economics
1997
David Kresge
Chief Economist, Dun & Bradstreet
Wayne Angell
Governor, Federal Reserve Board
David Resler
Chief Economist, Nomura International
Gary Becker
Nobel Prize Winner, 1992
1998
Dr. Richard Curtin
Director, Surveys Research Center, University of Michigan
Richard Hokinson
Chief Economist, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette
Lawrence Kudlow
Chief Economist, Bear Sterns & Co.
David Hale
Chief Economist, Kemper Financial Co.
1999
Clare Zempel
Chief Economist & Chief Financial Strategist, Rogbert W. Baird & Co., Inc.
Dr. David Wyss
Chief Economist & Research Director, DRI-McGraw Hill
Diane C. Swonk
Chief Economist & Sr. Vice President, Bank One
Joel Prakken
Chairman, Macroeconomic Advisers
2000-2009 Click On Arrows To Open Or Close
2000
Alice Rivlin
Vice Chair, Federal Reserve Board and Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Richard Thieme
President, Thieme Works
Robert Dederick
Chairman & CEO, RGD Economics
Donald Hilber
Financial Market Strategist & Sr. Economist, Investment Economics
2001
Dana B. Johnson
Sr. Managing Director, Bank One Capital Markets
Nariman Behravesh
Chief International Economist & Research Director, Standard & Poor's
Donald H. Straszheim
President, Straszheim Global Advisors
Gregory R. Valliere
Managing Director, Washington Research Group
2002
Ed Fiedler
Senior Fellow & Economic Counselor, Conference Board
James Harff
President & CEO, Global Communications
Brian Wesbury
First Vice President & Chief Economist, Griffen, Kubic, Stephens & Thompson
Robert Dederick
Principal, RGD Economics
2003
Dr. Mitchel Held
Managing Director, Salomon Smith Barney
Dr. Richard Curtin
Director of Consumer Research, University of Michigan
Dr. Mickey Levy
Senior Vice President & Chief Economist
Dr. Michael Moskow
President, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
2004
Clare Zempel
Chairman & Chief Economist, Zempel Strategic
Jan Hatzius
Vice President & Sr. Economis, Goldman Sachs
Diane Swonk
Chief Economist, Mesirow Financial
David Hale
Chairman, Hale Economic Advisors
2005
Andrew J. Engel
Sr. Research & Portfolio Manager, Leuthold Group institutional Research
Dr. Robert Genetski
Chairman & CEO, Genetski & Associates
Dr. Gary Stern
President. Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Dr. Marc Miles
Director, Center for International Trade & Economics, Heritage Foundation
2006
Brian Wesbury
Chief Economist, First Trust
Dr. James F. Smith
Director, Center for Business Forecasting at Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise
Dr. James W. Paulsen
Chief Investment Strategist, Wells Capital Management
Dr. William Dunkelberg
Professor of Economics, Temple University
2007
Clare Zempel
Chairman & Chief Economist, Zempel
Mathew Andresen
Co-Head, Citadel Derivatives Group
Dr. Kermit Baker
Economist, American Institute of Architects & Director of Remodeling Futures Program - Harvard University
2008
Harvey Rosenblum
Executive Vice President and Director of Research Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Eric Beslky
Executive Director - Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard U.
Ken Mayland
David Hale
2009
William Niskanen
Paul Ryan
Speaker of the House of Representatives, U.S. Congressman (WI) and Chairman of the House Budget Committee
Mark Zonis
Mark Perry
Professor of economics and finance in the School of Management at the Flint campus of the University of Michigan
2010+ Click On Arrows To Open Or Close
2010
Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to the United States of America
Harvey Rosenblum
Executive Vice President and Director of Research Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Phil Orlando
Institutional Investor
William Strauss
Senior Economist and Economic Advisor
2011
Suart Mackintosh
Executive Director, Group of Thirty
Clare Zempel
Principal, Zempel Strategic
William Poole
Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and Senior Advisor to Merk Investments
Jim Paulsen
Chief Investment Strategist, Wells Capital Management
2012
Scott Grannis
Retired Chief Economist at Western Asset Management
Richard Wobbekin
Executive Director of the Business Research Division and Senior Associate Dean University of Colorado
Robert McTeer
Distinguished Fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis
Scott Sumner
Professor of Economics at Bentley University
2013
Dr. Peter Ammon
German Ambassador to the United States
Dr. Kevin Swift
Chief Economist- American Chemistry Council
Clare Zempel
Principal, Zempel Strategic
Don Johnson
Chief Economist, Caterpillar Inc.
2014
Casey Mulligan
Professor of Economics- University of Chicago
George Kahn
Vice President & Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
David Henderson
Research Fellow - Hoover Institution, Stanford University
John Manley
Chief Equity Strategist at Wells Fargo Funds Management
2015
Ellen Hughes-Cromwick
Adjunct Professor of Business- University of Michigan
Lars Christensen
Markets and Money Advisory Founder
2016
Dr. Paul Kasriel
President of Econtrarian, LLC
Dr. Benjamin Powell
Director of the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech University
2017
Larry Jeddeloh
Founder of TIS Group in Minneapolis
Dr. Mark C. Schug
Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and President of Mark C. Schug Consulting Services.
Dr. Scott Niederjohn
Dean of the School of Business and Entrepreneurship and Charlotte and Walter Kohler Professor of Economics at Lakeland University
2018
Governor Scott Walker
45th Governor of the State of Wisconsin
Edward J. Pinto
Resident Fellow and Co-Director of the Center on Housing Markets and Finance at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
