Friday, February 6, 2009

Economic Recovery Advisory Board

This is interesting: Today Obama signed an executive order to establish an Economic Recovery Advisory Board. The board has a broad list of members from industry, gov't, and academia. Maybe we'll see some better input? Maybe the pres will change direction with these stimulus bills?

Full roster (via whitehouse.gov):
  • William H. Donaldson, Chairman, SEC (2003-2005)
  • Roger W. Ferguson, Jr., President & CEO, TIAA-CREF
  • Robert Wolf, Chairman & CEO, UBS Group Americas
  • David F. Swensen, CIO, Yale University
  • Mark T. Gallogly, Founder & Managing Partner, Centerbridge Partners L.P.
  • Penny Pritzker, Chairman & Founder, Pritzker Realty Group
  • Jeffrey R. Immelt, CEO, GE
  • John Doerr, Partner, Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers
  • Jim Owens, Chairman and CEO, Caterpillar Inc.
  • Monica C. Lozano, Publisher & Chief Executive Officer, La Opinion
  • Charles E. Phillips, Jr., President, Oracle Corporation
  • Anna Burger, Chair, Change to Win
  • Richard L. Trumka, Secretary-Treasurer, AFL-CIO
  • Laura D'Andrea Tyson, Dean, Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley
  • Martin Feldstein, George F. Baker Professor of Economics, Harvard University (also was Ronald Reagan's chief economic adviser)

3 comments:

  1. "Jeffrey R. Immelt, CEO, GE"

    Whoo hoo I own GE stock! Come on kickbacks to GE!!!!

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  2. The following actually is not an attack on Obama...

    I honestly feel that Barack is doing what he thinks is best and I honestly think Barack is trying to reach out to Republicans in efforts to be bi-partisan. Unfortunately, this has not been the result, but I don't think Barack is intentionally being an ass about this.

    On that note, I think he is acting in an incredibly naive and inexperienced manner (that was an attack).

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  3. It's funny that you mention GE, cuz I was happy to see Immelt on that list as well. GE is a great company. They were one of our primary competitors at Kodak Health Imaging. And they did some pretty cool stuff. I have a lot of respect for them.

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