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Charles E. Murray

Charles Murray is President and Chief Executive Officer of AIER. He joined the Institute in 1998 as a Senior Economist and the Director of Fellowship Programs. He then became the Director of Research & Education in 2000, and President on January 1, 2003. Prior to AIER, Charlie taught economics at Truman State University and Iowa State University. He did his undergraduate work at Shippensburg University and received his Ph.D. from Iowa State University.

 
David Michaels

David MichaelsDavid joined AIER as Chief Financial Officer in 2008. He most recently was Chief Financial Officer at Starfire Systems, Inc. in Malta, New York and prior to that, he worked at Albany International Corp. He started there as Tax Manager and ultimately rose to the post of Vice President, Treasury and Tax, Treasurer and Chief Risk Officer. He also worked at Veeco Instruments in Melville, Long Island, as Controller, Tax Manager, Consolidations Accountant and Cost Accountant. Additionally, he served as an Auditor for the New York State Department of Audit and Control.  David earned his Bachelor of Science degree with majors in accounting and finance and a minor in economics from the University at Albany. He did graduate-level coursework at the C.W. Post campus of Long Island University. David is a member of the Association of Financial Professionals and has served as a guest lecturer at the Lally School’s MBA program; treasurer and director of the Schodack Area Land Trust, Inc.; vice chairman of the board of directors of the Business Development Center; an advisory board member of the Capital District YMCA; and director and vice president of the Country Club of Troy, New York.

 
Ryan T. Goodenough

Ryan GoodenoughRyan Goodenough joined AIER in May 2007 and is currently the Director of Marketing and Communications. He is responsible for the principle strategy behind the direct mail campaign, management of the website, overseeing the public relations campaign, production of AIER's publications, and coordinating any other communications projects at the Institute. Ryan previously worked as AIER's Director of Communications, Internet Project Intern, and Marketing Assistant. He received Bachelor's degrees in Television Radio and Film, Psychology, and Political Science from Syracuse University and his Master's degree in Public Affairs and Policy from Rockefeller College. Ryan currently lives in North Greenbush, New York and originally hails from Bangor, Maine.

 
Kerry A. Lynch
Kerry Lynch is a Senior Fellow and previously was AIER's Director of Research and Education. She joined the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) in 1987 and has since written many articles on a wide range of economic and financial topics for the Institute's Research Reports and Economic Education Bulletins, including fiscal policy, monetary policy, Social Security, Medicare, and retirement planning. She is an AIER faculty member and has taught a seminar on business-cycle analysis for the Summer Fellowship program. She earned a Bachelor's degree in economics from Bryn Mawr College and a Master's degree, also in economics, from Duke University.
 
Lawrence Pratt

Lawrence Pratt is a Senior Fellow at AIER and has held various positions since he joined the Institute in 1973, including Director of Research and Education and President of American Investment Services. Larry received his Bachelor's degree in economics from Yale University and has served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Malawi. Before coming to AIER he was an investment analyst at the New York Life Insurance Company. He is married (Abby) with two sons.

 
R.D. Norton

R.D. NortonDr. R. D. Norton is an AIER Senior Fellow and Research Advisor and was a Visiting Research Fellow in 1999 and 2006. He has written or edited ten books, starting with a monograph on sales taxes at the Tax Foundation, and including works on city and regional growth and on the entrepreneurial economy. He was formerly Executive Director of the Eastern Economic Association and an economics professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, Mount Holyoke College, and Bryant College, where he had an endowed chair in business economics.

 
Walker Todd
Walker ToddWalker F. Todd, research fellow and conference organizer for AIER, lives in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, near Cleveland, and has been affiliated with AIER in one capacity or another since 1995. An instructor in the AIER Summer Fellowship Program, he teaches a course on the history and origins of competing theories of property rights. He is an attorney admitted to practice in Ohio and New York and is an economic consultant with 20 years’ experience at the Federal Reserve Banks of New York and Cleveland. He has been an instructor in the Special Studies program at Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY, since 1997. He holds a Ph.D. in French from Columbia University and a J.D. from Boston University School of Law. A director and program organizer for the Committee for Monetary Research and Education, he was an adjunct faculty member of the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University, for 13 years. He has numerous publications, both for AIER and for others, on banking, central banking, monetary and property rights topics, including those related to international debt, the International Monetary Fund, and the regulation of the banking system and financial markets.
 
Polina Vlasenko PDF Print E-mail
Polina VlasenkoPolina Vlasenko joined the AIER research staff as a Research Fellow in December 2008, after being a Visiting Research Fellow. From 2005 to 2008, Polina was an Assistant Professor of Economics at Manchester College in Indiana.  Prior to that, she was an Assistant Professor at the Economic Education and Research Consortium's Program in Economics (currently Kyiv School of Economics) in Kyiv, Ukraine.  She holds a Ph.D. in economics from University of Maryland, College Park.
 
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