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July 1963 - June 1970
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1964-1965
1965-1966
1966-1967
1967-1968
1968-1969
1969-1970
July 1970 - June 1980
Click On Arrows To Open Or Close1970-1971
Tilford Gaines
Chief Economist
Walter Heller
Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers, 1961-64
John Weaver
President, University of Wisconsin
Distinguished Professor of Geography, Univ. of Southern California
Peter Maas
Author, Valachi Papers and a biography of Frank Serpico
1971-1972
Grant Butler
Author
Otto Eckstein
Chairman & Founder, Data Resources Inc.
Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Arnold Weber
University of Chicago Business School
Cost of Living Council under President R. Nixon
1972-1973
Alan Greenspan
Chairman, Federal Reserve Board, 1987-2006
Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers, 1974-77
Arthur Solomon
Director, Arthur D. Little, Inc.
Barber Conable
U.S. Congressman, N.Y., 1965-85
1973-1974
Henry Reuss
U.S. Congressman, Wisconsin, 1955-1983
Prof. Paul McCracken
Chairman, Council of Economic Advisors, 1969-1971
President, American Enterprise Institute
Professor of Economics, U. of Michigan
John Connally
Secretary of the Treasury, 1971-72
Secretary of the Navy, 1961
Governor, State of Texas, 1963-69
Ezra Solomon
Council of Economic Advisers, 1971-73
1974-1975
John Dunlop
Secretary of Labor, Ford Administration
Professor, Harvard University
James E. Raffel
Sr. V.P. & Trust Investment Officer & Economist, Firstar Corp.
Founder, The Economic Club of Sheboygan
Ralph Salerno
District Attorney, New York City, N.Y.
Herbert Neil
Chief Economist, Harris Trust
George Schultz
Secretary of State
Secretary of the Treasury
1975-1976
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
1976-1977
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"
1977-1978
Dr. Allan Meltzer
Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers
Professor, Carnegie-Mellon University
Dr. Martin Feldstein
Chairman, National Bureau of Economic Research
Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers
Sen. Robert Packwood
United State Senator, Oregon, 1969-1995
Ronald Haddock
Director of Exxon Corporation
1978-1979
Patrick Lucey
Governor, State of Wisconsin
Dr. Lawrence Klein
Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Nobel Prize Winner, 1980
Dr. Raymond Jallow
Chief Economist, L.A. California
Charles Bartlett
Columnist, Chicago Sun Times
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
July 1980 - June 1990
Click On Arrows To Open Or Close1980-1981
Jerry Jordan
President, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland; Member
Member, Council of Economic Advisers
Yale Brozen
Professor, University of Chicago
Carol Baumann
Deputy Secretary, Bureau of Intelligence, U.S. Department of State
Kevin Phillips
Political Strategist
1981-1982
Marina Von Neumann Whitman
Chief Economist, General Motors
Karl Brunner
Professor, University of Rochester
Irving Levine
Political Commentator
Robert Genetski
Chief Economist, Harris Trust
1982-1983
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.
1983-1984
Dr. Henry Gailliot
Chief Economist, Federated Research Corp. of Pittsburgh
Robert Davis
President, Davis Financial Associates
Sr. V.P., New York Mercantile Exchange
George Gilder
Author, "Visible Man," "Wealth and Poverty"
Gar Alperovitz
Prof. Of Political Science, Howard University
President, National Center of Economics
1984-1985
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
1985-1986
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
1986-1987
John Rutledge
Claremont Economic Institute
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.
1987-1988
Lawrence Chimerine
Sr. Economic Counselor, DRI/McGraw-Hill
Chairman, Chase Econometrics
Donald Strazheim
Chief Economist, Merrill Lynch
Alfred Kahn
Chairman, Civil Aeronautics Board
Irving Kristol
Editor, Wall Street Journal
1988-1989
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.
1989-1990
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
July 1990 - June 1999
Click On Arrows To Open Or Close1990-1991
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
1991-1992
Dr. David Resler
Chief Economist, Nomura Securities Int<
Chief Financial Economist, 1st Financial Bank of Chicago
Dr. Bill Apgare
Assistant to the Secretary, HUD
Professor, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Norman Ornstein
Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
Leon Kendall
Professor of Finance & Real Estate, Northwestern University
1992-1993
James Miller, III
Director, Office of Management & Budget
James Smith
Professor, U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
President, National Association of Business Economics
Bradlee Perry
Chairman of the Board, David L. Babson
Larry Lindsey
Governor, Federal Reserve Board
1993-1994
David Hale
Chief Economist, Kemper Financial Co.
Gail Fosler
Chief Economist, Conference Board
Larry Meyer
Governor, Federal Reserve Board
Professor, Washington University (St. Louis)
Ethan Siegal
V.P. & Chief Washington Political Analyst, Prudential Securities
1994-1995
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's
1995-1996
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
Director of La Follette Institute
1996-1997
Joel Prakken
Chairman, Macroeconomic Advisers
James Harff
President, Ruder-Finn Global Public Affair
Bradlee Perry
Chairman of the Board, David L. Babson
John Silvia
Managing Director, Chief Economist, Wells Fargo Economics
1997-1998
David Kresge
Chief Economist, Dun & Bradstreet
Wayne Angell
Governor, Federal Reserve Board
David Resler
Chief Economist, Nomura International
Gary Becker
Professor of Economics, University of Chicago
Nobel Prize Winner, 1992
1998-1999
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.
1999-2000
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, Banc One
Past President, Nat’l Assoc. of Business Economists
Joel Prakken
Chairman, Macroeconomic Advisers
July 2000 - June 2009
Click On Arrows To Open Or Close2000-2001
Alice Rivlin
Senior Fellow, Brookings Institute
Vice Chair, Federal Reserve Board
Richard Thieme
President, Thieme Works
Robert Dederick
Chairman & CEO, RGD Economics
Economic Consultant
Executive Vice President & Chief Economist, Northern Trust Corporation
Donald Hilber
Financial Market Strategist & Sr. Economist, Investment Economics
2001-2002
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
Chief Economist, Merrill Lynch
Gregory R. Valliere
Managing Director, Washington Research Group
Schwab & Co.
2002-2003
Ed Fiedler
Senior Fellow & Economic Counselor
Conference Board, Past President, NABE
James Harff
President & CEO, Global Communications
Brian Wesbury
First Vice President & Chief Economist, Griffen, Kubic, Stephens & Thompson
Robert Dederick
Principal, RGD Economics
Chief Economist, Northern Trust
2003-2004
Dr. Mitchel Held
Managing Director, Salomon Smith Barney
Dr. Richard Curtin
Director of Consumer Research, University of Michigan
Dr. Mickey Levy
Senior VicePresident & Chief Economist, Bank of America
Board of Academic Advisors, New York Fed
Dr. Michael Moskow
President, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
2004-2005
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
2005-2006
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
2006-2007
Brian Wesbury
Chief Economist, First Trust
Chief Economist, Joinst Economic Committee of U.S. Congress
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
Chief Economist National Federation of Independent Businesses
2007-2008
Clare Zempel
Chairman & Chief Economist, Zempel Strategic
Mathew Andresen
Co-Head, Citadel Derivatives Group
Dr. Kermit Baker
Economist, American Institute of Architects & Director of Remodeling Futures Program - Harvard University
2008-2009
Harvey Rosenblum
Executive Vice President and Director of Research Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Eric Beslky
Managing Director, Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University
Lecturer in Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Ken Mayland
President, Clearview Economics, LLC
David Hale
Founding Chairman, David Hale Global Economics
Chief Economist, Zurich Financial Services
2009-2010
William Niskanen
Chairman Emeritus, Cato Institute
Paul Ryan
Speaker of the House of Representatives
U.S. Congressman (WI) and Chairman of the House Budget Committee
Mark Zonis
Professor, University of Chicago
Mark Perry
Professor of economics and finance in the School of Management at the Flint campus of the University of Michigan
Scholar, American Enterprise Institute