NBER Corporate Associates Research Symposium

Biographical Sketches

Laura Alfaro is the Warren Alpert Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate of the NBER. She co-directs the NBER’s Economics of Supply Chains project, which is supported by the Department of Homeland Security. She also co-edits the Journal of International Economics and the World Bank Research Observer.

David Altig is Executive Vice President and Chief Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. He is a past President of NABE and a member of the National Business Economic Issues Council. His research has ranged widely in macroeconomics.

Matthew Barmack is the Vice President of Market and Regulatory Policy at Calpine. He is an expert on competition and market performance in the wholesale electric power market, with particular emphasis on resource adequacy and planning for future generation needs.

George Borjas is the Robert W. Scrivner Research Professor of Economics and Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and a Research Associate of the NBER. Borjas is a leading expert on the economic effects of immigration, and his book Friends or Strangers? is a standard refence on this topic.

Richard Clarida is the C. Lowell Harriss Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Columbia University, a Research Associate of the NBER, and the former Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. Clarida has published widely on monetary policy, exchange rates, interest rates, and international capital flows

Lisa Emsbo-Mattingly is the Director of Research, Global Asset Allocation at Fidelity. She leads the research teams that develop asset allocation and macroeconomic investment recommendations for Fidelity’s portfolio managers by deploying a range of fundamental economic research tools. She is a past president of the National Association for Business Economics.

Catherine Hausman is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan and a Research Associate of the NBER. Her work focuses on environmental and energy economics, particularly emphasizing the electricity grid. She recently directed an NBER project on the distributional consequences of energy market innovation.

Constance Hunter is a Senior Adviser at Macropolicy Perspectives and the National Association for Business Economics’ past president and representative on the NBER Board of Directors. Prior to joining Macropolicy Perspectives, she served as Executive Vice President, Head of Strategy and ESG at AIG. She is an expert in both macroeconomic and industry analysis.

Emily Kolinski Morris is the Chief Economist at Ford Motor Company, managing a team of economists and other analysts who develop the firm’s industry and global economic forecasts. Over the course of her career she has worked in all of Ford’s major global markets. She is current the Vice-President of the National Association of Business Economics.

James Poterba is the Mitsui Professor of Economics at MIT and the President and CEO of the NBER. His research focuses on public economics and retirement security. He is currently co-directing NBER projects on transportation economics in the 21st century and on inter-jurisdictional tax competition.