Research Advisory Board
Comprised of distinguished economists, professors, and other experts, the Research Advisory Board advises CED's leadership on avenues of research to undertake and recommends subjects for investigation. Research Advisory Board members prepare papers on issues that CED Trustees consider for its agenda and discuss future CED projects. Currently, the Research Advisory Board includes noted economists and professors from Colby College, Stanford, Harvard, Duke, and Yale.

Over the years, Research Advisory Board members have included such luminaries as, Paul Krugman of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Paul McCracken of the University of Michigan, Jeffrey Sachs of Harvard University, and Nobel Laureates in Economics George A. Ackerlof of the University of California at Berkeley, Theodore W. Schultz of the University of Michigan, and George Stigler of Columbia University.

Chair
John L. Palmer
University Professor and Dean Emeritus
The Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs, Syracuse University

Members

Anthony J. Corrado
Charles A. Dana Professor of Government
Colby College

 

Alain C. Enthoven
Marriner S. Eccles Professor of Public & Private Management
Stanford University

 

Benjamin M. Friedman
William J. Maier Professor of Political Economy
Harvard University

 

Robert W. Hahn
Resident Scholar & Executive Director, AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

 

Douglas Holtz-Eakin
Former Senior Visiting Fellow
Peterson Institute for International Economics

 

Helen F. Ladd
Edgar Thompson Professor of Public Policy Studies and Professor of Economics
Duke University

 

Robert E. Litan
Vice President, Research & Policy
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

 

Zanny Minton-Beddoes
Washington Economics Editor
The Economist

 

William D. Nordhaus
Sterling Professor of Economics
Yale University

 

Rudolph G. Penner
Arjay and Frances Miller Chair in Public Policy
The Urban Institute

 
CED, the Committee for Economic Development is an independent, nonpartisan organization for business and education leaders dedicated to policy research on the major economic and social issues of our time and the implementation of its recommendations by the public and private sectors.