The Economics Department Visiting Committee

Every department at MIT has a Visiting Committee that consists of distinguished scholars, department graduates, and several members of the MIT Corporation. These committees typically meet once every two years, at MIT, to hear reports from the Department Head, the faculty, and current students about the department’s health and future direction. These committees prepare reports for the President, Provost, and Chancellor that provide an important source of external evaluation for each department. The current members of the MIT Economics Department Visiting Committee are listed below:

Chair
Mr. Denis A. Bovin,
’69 MG
Vice Chairman-Investment Banking
Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc.

Dr. Pedro Aspe
EC ’78
Chairman and CEO
Protego Investment Bank

Professor Dennis W. Carlton
EC ’75
University of Chicago Graduate School of Business

Mr. John K. Castle
’63 EC
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Castle Harlan, Inc.

Dr. Morris Chang
’52 ME, ME ’53, ’55
Chairman of the Board and CEO
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company

Professor Judith Chevalier
EC ’93
Yale University School of Management

Mr. Lawrence K. Fish
Chairman, RBS America,
Chairman, Citizens Financial Group, Inc.

Dr. Eugene Flood Jr.
EC ’83
President and Chief Executive Officer
Smith Breeden Associates

Ms. Abigail Johnson
Fidelity Investments
Boston MA

Dr. Pentti J.K. Kouri
EC ’75
Chairman
Kouri Capital Group

Mr. Donald H. Layton
’72 EC, EC ’72
Vice Chairman - Retired
J.P. Morgan Chase & Company

Dr. Gary W. Loveman
EC ’89
Chairman, CEO and President
Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc.

Professor Eric Maskin
Albert O. Hirschman Professor of Social Science
Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton University

Ms. Cathy E. Minehan
President and Chief Executive Officer, Retired
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Mr. Gregory K. Palm
’70 EC
Executive Vice President and
General Counsel
Goldman Sachs and Company

Dr. Bruce Stangle
GM ’74, GM ’78
Chairman
Analysis Group, Inc.

Mr. John A. Thain
’77 EE
CEO
New York Stock Exchange

Professor Laura D'Andrea Tyson
EC'74
Haas School
University of California - Berkeley

Professor Hal Varian
EC '69
University of California, Berkeley, and
Chief Economist, Google, Inc.

Mr. Kenneth Wang
’71 EC
President
U.S. Summit Company

Dr. F. Helmut Weymar
’58 MG, EC ’65
Private Investor