Alan Blinder

Alan S. Blinder is the Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University and codirector of Princeton's Center for Economic Policy Studies, which he founded in 1990. He is also Vice Chairman of the Promontory Interfinancial Network.

Blinder served as vice chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from June 1994 until January 1996. Before becoming a member of the board, Dr. Blinder served as a member of President Bill 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.

During the 2000 and 2004 presidential campaigns, he was an economic adviser to Al Gore and John Kerry. He also served briefly as deputy assistant director of the Congressional Budget Office when that agency started in 1975, and testifies frequently before Congress on a wide variety of public policy issues.

Blinder is the author or co-author of 17 books, and has also written scores of scholarly articles on such topics as fiscal policy, monetary policy, and the distribution of income. He is also a columnist for The New York Times Sunday business section, and appears frequently on PBS, CNBC, CNN, Bloomberg TV, and elsewhere. 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.