Dr. R. Glenn Hubbard, professor, researcher and policymaker. Dr. Hubbard is the dean and Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics in the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University and professor of economics in Columbia’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Hubbard is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a director of Metlife, Automatic Data Processing, and Black Rock Closed-End Funds. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1983. From 2001 to 2003, Glenn served as chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers and chairman of the OECD Economic Policy Committee, and from 1991 to 1993, Dr. Hubbard was deputy assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury Department. He currently serves as co-chair of the nonpartisan Committee on Capital Markets Regulation. Glenn’s fields of specialization are public economics, corporate finance, financial markets and institutions, industrial organization, public policy, macroeconomics. He is the author of more than hundred articles in leading journals, including Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, American Economic Review, Journal of Finance, Journal of Money, Journal of Financial Economics, Credit, and Banking, Journal of Public Economics, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy, RAND Journal of Economics, and Review of Economics and Statistics. Hubbard’s research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Bureau of Economic Research, and numerous private foundations.