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Martin Feldstein

President

National Bureau of Economic Research

1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 U.S.A. Phone: 617-868-3900 Fax: 617-868-2742 mfeldstein@harvard.edu

Martin Feldstein is the George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University and president and CEO of the National Bureau of Economic Research. From 1982 through 1984, Feldstein was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and President Reagan's chief economic adviser.

Feldstein is a member of the American Philosophical Society, a corresponding fellow of the British Academy, a fellow of the Econometric Society and a fellow of the National Association of Business Economists. He is also a member of the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Group of 30 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has received honorary doctorates from several universities and is an Honorary Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford. In 1977 he received the John Bates Clark Medal of the American Economic Association, a prize awarded every two years to the economist under the age of 40 who is judged to have made the greatest contribution to economic science. He is the author of more than 300 research articles in economics.

Feldstein is a director of three corporations (American International Group, HCA, and Eli Lilly) and an economic adviser to several businesses in the United States and abroad. He is a regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal.

Martin Feldstein is a graduate of Harvard College and Oxford University.

Focus: Economy, Finance, Globalization, Trade, United States, Americas

Link: http://www.nber.org/feldstein/

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Last Updated: Sep 25, 2006