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Martin Feldstein

Economist and former advisor to president Ronald Reagan

One of the most brilliant economists at work today, Dr. Martin Feldstein understands the impact and influence of government’s role in monetary policy – from the inside out. President Reagan's chief economic adviser Dr. Martin Feldstein helps audiences understand what lies in wait for the world’s economic future.

Former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors under President Ronald Reagan, Dr. Martin Feldstein is presently George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University . He is also the President of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a private non-profit research organization that has specialized for more than 70 years in producing nonpartisan studies of the American economy. Dr. Martin Feldstein is director of three corporations, an economic adviser to several businesses here and abroad, and a regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal.

Dr. Martin 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. Dr. Martin Feldstein 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.

Dr. Martin Feldstein is a graduate of Harvard College and Oxford University. He was born in New York City in 1939. His wife, Kathleen, is also an economist. The Feldstein’s have two grown daughters.


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