Join
us Wednesday at
7pm in Rocky 209 to hear
from Professor Samwick!!
Below is his bio
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Andrew A. Samwick is the Sandra L. and Arthur
L. Irving ‘72a, P’10 Professor of Economics and the Director of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences at Dartmouth College. The Rockefeller Center aims to educate, train, and inspire the next generation of public policy
leaders. Appointed director in July 2004, Samwick has overseen the creation and development of several innovative programs that integrate the curricular and cocurricular elements of a student’s education, including the First-Year Fellows Program, the Policy
Research Shop, and the Management and Leadership Development Program. In November 2009, Samwick was selected as the New Hampshire Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for the Advancement and Support
of Education.
In the field of economics, Samwick is most widely
known for his research on the economics of retirement. He is the co-author of a set of reform proposals that restore solvency to the Social Security system through the addition of investment-based, personal retirement accounts. He has testified three times
before Congressional committees on his research. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a member of the Census Scientific Advisory Committee. He has served on technical panels for the Social Security Advisory Board and as
a consultant for the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation on the assumptions and methods they use to make long-term projections.
Samwick attended Harvard University as an undergraduate,
where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated summa cum laude with a degree in economics. He received his Ph.D. in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, specializing in public economics and finance. Since joining the faculty of Dartmouth
in 1994, his scholarly work has covered a range of topics, including pensions, saving, taxation, portfolio choice, and executive compensation. He has published articles in American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Finance, Journal
of Monetary Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, and a number of specialized journals and conference volumes. From 2011 – 2014, he served as Editor of Economics Letters.
In July 2003, Samwick joined the staff of the
President’s Council of Economic Advisers, serving for a year as its chief economist and helping to direct the work of about 20 economists in support of the three Presidential appointees on the Council. Since 2006, he has served on the Board of Directors of
the Ledyard Financial Group (LFGP) in Hanover, New Hampshire. He has previously served on the boards of the National Tax Association, the Montshire Museum of Science, and the Hanover Conservancy. He blogs about economics, politics, and current events at http://samwick.blogspot.com.