Dr. Laurence H. Meyer
| Laurence H. Meyer is a former member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (“the Fed”) and currently Vice-Chairman of Macroeconomic Advisers and a distinguished scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. Dr. Meyer served as a Fed governor from June 1996 through January 2002. Before becoming a member of the Fed Board, Meyer was president of Laurence H. Meyer and Associates, a St. Louis-based economic consulting firm specializing in macroeconomic forecasting and policy analysis, and became recognized as one of the nation’s leading economic forecasters. The firm was renamed Macroeconomic Advisers when Dr. Meyer left to join the Federal Reserve Board. He was also a professor of economics and a former chair of the Economics department at Washington University, where he taught for 27 years before joining the Federal Reserve Board. Dr. Meyer offers Monetary Policy Insights—commentaries and analyses of the U.S. economic outlook and monetary policy prospects—through Macroeconomic Advisers to financial firms around the world. He is a fellow of the National Association for Business Economics, a member of the Board of Directors of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a member of the Board of Scholars of the American Council on Capital Formation, and a member of the Panel of Economic Advisers for the Congressional Budget Office. He is also the author of A Term at the Fed: An Insider’s View, published by HarperBusiness in July 2004. Dr. Meyer was born on 8 March 1944 in the Bronx, New York. He received a B.A. (magna cum laude) from Yale University in 1965 and a Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1970. |
