Alan S. Blinder
Chairman of the Advisory Board

Dr. Blinder is Chairman of the Advisory Board of Promontory Asset Finance Company, and a Partner at Promontory Financial Group. He is the Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Economic Policy Studies at Princeton University. He is a Vice Chairman of the G-7 Group and was a Governor of the American Stock Exchange. Dr. Blinder was the Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 1994-1996. 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 served on the President's Council of Economic Advisors from 1993 to 1994.

Dr. Blinder's leadership in the field of business education spans three decades. He is the author or co-author of 12 books, including the textbook, Economics: Principles and Policy (with William J. Baumol), now in its 9th edition. Dr. Blinder is regularly quoted in leading business publications, including The Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek, and his writings have appeared in journals and newspapers around the world.

Dr. Blinder graduated with a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971. He received a M. Sc. in Economics from the London School of Economics in 1968, and an A.B. in Economics from Princeton University in 1967.