Glenn Hubbard

Glenn Hubbard is dean and Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia Business School. He is a specialist in public finance, managerial information and incentive problems in corporate finance and financial markets and institutions. Hubbard has applied his research interests in business (as a consultant on taxation and corporate finance to many corporations), in government (as chairman of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers, as deputy assistant of the U.S. Treasury Department and as a consultant to the Federal Reserve Board, Federal Reserve Bank of New York and many government agencies) and in academia (in faculty collaboration or visiting appointments at Columbia, University of Chicago and Harvard).

In addition to writing more than 100 scholarly articles in economics and finance, Mr. Hubbard is the author of three popular textbooks, as well as co-author of The Aid Trap: Hard Truths About Ending Poverty, Balance: The Economics of Great Powers From Ancient Rome to Modern America, and Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: Five Steps to a Better Health Care System. His commentaries appear in Business Week, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Washington Post, Nikkei, and the Daily Yomiuri, as well as on television and radio.

From 2001 until 2003, Mr. Hubbard was chairman of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers. From 1991 until 1993, Mr. Hubbard was deputy assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. In the corporate sector, he serves on the boards of ADP, BlackRock Closed-End Funds, and MetLife.

Mr. Hubbard is co-chair of the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation, he is a past chair of the Economic Club of New York and he is a past co-chair of the Study Group on Corporate Boards.

Mr. Hubbard received his BA and BS degrees summa cum laude from the University of Central Florida and also holds a PhD degree in economics from Harvard University.