March 10, 2005
Speaker Biographies
Kevin A. Hassett is the director of economic policy studies and a resident scholar at AEI. Before joining AEI, Mr. Hassett was a senior economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and an associate professor of economics and finance at the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University. He was an economic advisor to the Bush campaign in the 2004 presidential election, and was the chief economic adviser to Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) during the 2000 primaries. He has also served as a policy consultant to the U.S. Department of the Treasury during both the former Bush and Clinton administrations. Mr. Hassett is a member of the Joint Committee on Taxation’s Dynamic Scoring Advisory Panel. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of six books on economics and economic policy, including Dow 36,000 (Times Books), the 1999 best-selling book on stock valuation coauthored with James K. Glassman. He has published scholarly articles in the American Economic Review, the Economic Journal, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Public Economics, and many other professional journals. His popular writings have been published in the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic Monthly, USA Today, the Washington Post, and numerous other outlets. His economic commentaries are regularly aired on radio and television, including recent appearances on the Today Show, the CBS Morning Show, Newshour with Jim Lehrer, Hardball, Moneyline, and Power Lunch.
Paul A. London is the president of Paul A. London and Associates, an economic consulting group. He wrote The Competition Solution while a visiting fellow at AEI. Mr. London served as deputy under secretary of the Department of Commerce for economics and statistics from 1993 to 1997. From 1997 until March of 2000, he served as a senior policy adviser for the Commerce Department and represented the department on the White House Task Force on Medical Errors, the HHS Task Force on Health Care Privacy, and interagency groups focused on health care costs. The author of many articles in the area of political economy, focusing on the benefits of price competition and the impact on the overall economy of competition at the industry level, Mr. London wrote one of the first books on privatization in economic development, titled The Role of Merchants in Development (Praeger, 1975).
Maureen Ohlhausen is the acting director of the Office of Policy Planning of the Federal Trade Commission, where she has worked since September 2001. The Office of Policy Planning coordinates the Commission’s competition advocacy program, through which the Commission advises federal and state legislatures, other federal agencies, and courts about the likely effects of their actions on consumers and markets. From 1998 to 2001, Ms. Ohlhausen served as an attorney advisor for FTC Commissioner Orson Swindle, advising him on both competition and consumer protection matters. Ms. Ohlhausen started at the Federal Trade Commission in 1997 in the General Counsel’s Office. Before coming to the FTC, she worked at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit from 1992 to 1997, where she was a law clerk for Judge David B. Sentelle. Ms. Ohlhausen also clerked for Judge Robert Yock of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims from 1991 to 1992. She is a frequent speaker on competition topics.
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