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Martin S. Feldstein Ph.D. is the George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University and president and chief executive officer of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has been a member of the board of directors of Eli Lilly and Company since 2002.
A native of New York he received a bachelor's degree summa cum laude from Harvard College in 1961 and from Oxford University he obtained a bachelor's degree in 1963 a master's degree in 1964 and a doctorate in 1967.
Feldstein was a research fellow at Nuffield College from 1964 to 1965 and an official fellow from 1965 to 1967. During this time he was also a lecturer in public finance for Oxford University. He became an assistant professor at Harvard University in 1967 an associate professor in 1968 and a full professor in 1969. From 1982 through 1984 he served as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and President Ronald Reagan's chief economic advisor.
He is a member of the American Philosophical Society a member of the Institute of Medicare of the National Academy of Sciences a corresponding fellow of the British Academy a fellow of the Econometric Society and a fellow of the National Association for Business Economics. Feldstein is a member of the executive committee of the Trilateral Commission a director of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received honorary degrees from the University of Rochester Marquette University and others.
Feldstein is a director of American International Group and an economic advisor to several businesses in the United States and abroad. Additionally he is a regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal and has authored more than 300 research articles in economics.
He is the 1977 recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal of the American Economic Association a prize awarded every two years to the economist under the age of 40 who is judged to have made the greatest contribution to economic science. In 2004 he served as president of the American Economic Association. | 