Glenn Hubbard, policymaker, professor, and
researcher. R. Glenn 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. He is also a research
associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a
director of Automatic Data Processing, Black Rock Closed-End
Funds, and MetLife. He received his Ph.D. in economics from
Harvard University in 1983. From 2001 to 2003, he served as
chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers
and chairman of the OECD Economic Policy Committee, and from 1991 to 1993, he
was deputy assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury Department. He currently serves as
co-chair of the nonpartisan Committee on Capital Markets Regulation. Hubbard’s fields
of specialization are public economics, financial markets and institutions, corporate
finance, macroeconomics, industrial organization, and public policy. He is the author of
more than 100 articles in leading journals, including American Economic Review, Brookings
Papers on Economic Activity, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Money,
Credit, and Banking, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Public Economics, Quarterly Journal of
Economics, RAND Journal of Economics, and Review of Economics and Statistics. His research has
been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Bureau of
Economic Research, and numerous private foundations.