February General Membership Meeting

I am the George Munson Professor of Political Economy at Hillsdale College and President of Hillsdale Policy Group, a consulting firm specializing in taxation and policy analysis. Currently, I serve as treasurer of the Board of Trustees of Lake Superior State University and previously served as chairman. I served as a member of Michigan’s State Board of Education from 1993 to 1999, was chairman of the Headlee Amendment Blue Ribbon Commission and have been a member of the Michigan Enterprise Zone Authority, the Michigan Strategic Fund Board and the Michigan State Housing Development Authority Board. My public policy experience includes serving as former Congressman Nick Smith’s Washington Office Chief of Staff, Michigan’s Deputy State Treasurer for Taxation and Economic Policy under Governor John Engler, and Senior Economist to the Republican Senate in Michigan. I graduated summa cum laude from the University of California at Santa Barbara. I received my Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at Berkeley and have taught at several colleges and universities, including Mount Holyoke College, the University of Michigan and Washington State University. My publications include Towards a Free Society: An Introduction to Markets and the Political System, and several works on Michigan’s tax structure and other public policy issues. I was named Hillsdale College’s Professor of the Year for 2004. Michigan Runner Magazine also named me one of the top 25 runners in Michigan of the past 25 years.