April 26, 2005
Speaker Biographies
Mark J. Flannery has held an Eminent Scholar Chair in Finance at the University of Florida since 1989. He was previously associate and full professor of finance at the University of North Carolina and assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He has also worked as a visiting faculty member at the London Business School and the University of New South Wales, and research adviser to the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. In addition to his research activities, Mr. Flannery has consulted with private banks and government agencies, and served on the Board of the Barnett Bank of Alachua County (a $425 million dollar community bank). His teaching activities have included development of a web-based bank financial management game ("ProBanker"), which is used in both domestic and international teaching programs. He currently serves as editor of the Journal of Money Credit and Banking, and as associate editor for the Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Financial Services Research, The Financial Review, The Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Quarterly Review.
Dwight M. Jaffee has been a professor of finance and real estate at the University of California–Berkeley's Haas School of Business since 1991. He previously taught for many years in the department of economics at Princeton University, where he served as vice chairman. At Berkeley, Mr. Jaffee is currently the Booth Professor of Banking and Finance and serves as a co-chairman of the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics, with special responsibilities for the center’s research program. He is also the academic director of the St. Petersburg University-Berkeley School of Management Program, and has been in that post since the program’s inception in 1993. Mr. Jaffee has consulted in recent years with the World Bank on its programs involving both Russia and China. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Axa/Barr Rosenburg Mutual Funds. Mr. Jaffee is the author of three monographs and dozens of economics journal articles. His research covers diverse topics such as catastrophe and casualty insurance, real estate finance, international housing finance systems, credit rationing and bank lending, and the California economy.
Josh Rosner comes to Medley Global Advisors LLC from the institutional equity research firm Graham Fisher and Company, where he was a partner. His research on the housing and mortgage markets has received significant press coverage in Barron’s, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Economist and several housing industry publications. Between 1993 and the end of 2000, Mr. Rosner was an executive vice president at CIBC World Markets and a senior vice president at its predecessor firm, Oppenheimer and Company. Mr. Rosner was a senior member of the firm's institutional equity research sales force responsible for providing macro, sector and equity strategies to many of the firm's largest hedge fund and asset management clients. At CIBC, Mr. Rosner also served as a senior member of the firm’s stock selection committee where his responsibilities included helping the firm's analysts to better conceive and tailor their products to the equity markets. Along with his cross-sector research sales responsibilities, Mr. Rosner also spearheaded the creation of a specialty sales practice in financial service equities.
Jason Thomas is the economic analyst for the Senate Republican Policy Committee and its chairman, Senator Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) Mr. Thomas directs Senate Republican research on financial services, banking, Social Security, agriculture, and telecommunications policy issues. Prior to coming to the Senate, Mr. Thomas was a staff economist at Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation, a non-profit, free market advocacy and research group, and also worked as an Analyst for a division of Tyson Foods. Mr. Thomas’ articles and essays have appeared in the Wall Street Journal,Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Washington Times, Newsday, Investors’ Business Daily, and many regional papers.
Peter J. Wallison joined AEI in 1999 as a resident fellow and as the co-director of AEI’s program on financial market deregulation. As a partner of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, he practiced banking, corporate, and financial law in the firm’s Washington and New York offices. As the general counsel of the Treasury Department from 1981 to 1985, Mr. Wallison helped develop the Reagan administration’s proposals for deregulating the financial services industry. During 1986 and 1987, Mr. Wallison was counsel to President Ronald Reagan. He is the author of Back from the Brink, a proposal for a system of private deposit insurance; coauthor of Nationalizing Mortgage Risk: The Growth of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and The GAAP Gap: Corporate Disclosure in the Age of the Internet; and editor of Serving Two Masters Yet out of Control: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and Optional Federal Chartering of Insurance Companies, all of which have been published by the AEI Press. More recently, Mr. Wallison is the author of Ronald Reagan: The Power of Conviction and the Success of His Presidency, published in December 2002 by Westview Press.
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