John B. Taylor
was
the Bowen H. and Janice Arthur McCoy Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution
and the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford
University. He has served as the director of the Stanford Institute for
Economic Policy Research and was founding director of Stanford's
Introductory Economics Center.
Taylor's fields of expertise are monetary policy, fiscal policy, and
international economics. He has an active interest in public policy. Taylor
is currently a member of the California Governor's Council of Economic
Advisors, where he also previously served from 1996 to 1998. In the past, he
served as senior economist on President Ford's Council of Economic Advisers
in 1976, as a member of President Bush's Council of Economic Advisers from
1989 through 1991, as economic adviser to the Bob Dole presidential campaign
in 1996, and as economic adviser to the George W. Bush presidential campaign
in 2000. He was also a member of the Congressional Budget Office's Panel of
Economic Advisers from 1995 to 2001.
For four years from 2001 to 2005, Taylor served as Undersecretary of
Treasury for International Affairs where he was responsible forU.S.
policies in international finance , which includes currency
markets, trade in financial services, foreign investment, international debt
and development, and oversight of the International Monetary Fund and the
World Bank. He was also responsible for coordinating financial policy with
the G-7 countries, was chair of the working party on international
macroeconomics at the OECD, and was a member of the Board of the Overseas
Private Investment Corporation.
Taylor was awarded the Alexander Hamilton Award for his overall
leadership in international finance at the U.S. Treasury. He was also
awarded the Treasury Distinguished Service Award for designing and
implementing the currency reforms in Iraq, and the Medal of the Republic of
Uruguay for his work in resolving the 2002 financial crisis. In 2005, The
Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research awarded Taylor with the
George P. Shultz Distinguished Public Service Award. Taylor has also won
many teaching awards; he was awarded the Hoagland Prize for excellence in
undergraduate teaching and the Rhodes Prize for his high teaching ratings in
Stanford's introductory economics course. He also received a Guggenheim
Fellowship for his research, and he is a fellow of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society; he formerly served as vice
president of the American Economic Association.
Before joining the Stanford faculty in 1984, Taylor held positions as
professor of economics at Princeton University and Columbia University.
Taylor received a B.A. in economics summa cum laude from Princeton
University in 1968 and a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University in
1973.
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