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ALAN S. BLINDER
Biography
Alan S. Blinder is currently the Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Co-Director of the Center for Economic Policy Studies at Princeton University, and Vice Chairman of the G7 Group.
Dr. Blinder was the Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from June 1994 until January 1996. In this position, he represented the Fed at various international meetings, and was a member of the Board's committees on Bank Supervision and Regulation, Consumer and Community Affairs, and Derivative Instruments. He also chaired the Board in the Chairman's absence.
Before becoming a member of the Board, Dr. Blinder served as a Member of President Clinton's original Council of Economic Advisers from January 1993 until June 1994. There he was in charge of the Administration's macroeconomic forecasting and also worked intensively on budget, international trade, and health care issues.
Dr. Blinder was born on October 14, 1945, in Brooklyn, New York. He earned his A.B. at Princeton University in 1967, M.Sc. at London School of Economics in 1968, and Ph.D at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971 -- all in economics. At Princeton, Dr. Blinder chaired the Department of Economics from 1988 to 1990, and founded Princeton's Center for Economic Policy Studies. He has taught at Princeton since 1971.
Dr. Blinder is the author or co-author of 12 books, including the textbook Economics: Principles and Policy (with William J. Baumol) now in its 7th edition, from which well over a million college students have learned introductory economics. He has also written scores of scholarly articles on such topics as fiscal policy, monetary policy, and the distribution of income. From 1985 until joining the Clinton Administration, Dr. Blinder wrote a lively monthly column in Business Week magazine.
Dr. Blinder served briefly as Deputy Assistant Director of the Congressional Budget Office when that agency started in 1975 and has testified many times before Congress on a wide variety of public policy issues. He is a Governor of the American Stock Exchange, a Trustee of the Russell Sage Foundation, and has been elected to the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
He and his wife, Madeline, live in Princeton, NJ; they have two sons, Scott and William.
