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Tapan Munroe has had a distinguished career in business as well as in academics. He is well known in California and the U.S. for his business and policy analysis consulting and advisory work. Prior to joining LECG as a Director he served as the Chief Economist for the Pacific Gas & Electric Company for more than a decade, a Senior Fellow of the Great Valley Center, Modesto, California, and he was the holder of the Kiriyama Distinguished Professorship for Asia Pacific Studies at the University of San Francisco in San Francisco for 1998-99. He has been the Consulting Economist for the Capital Corporation of the West, a bank holding company for the last several years.
His areas of consulting and advisory expertise include; utility and energy economics, regional economics analysis, economic forecasting, analysis of industry structure and trends, natural disaster damage and economic loss estimates and analysis of disaster mitigation policies.
Tapan Munroe received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Colorado. His awards and honors include the University of Colorado fellowship and membership in Phi Kappa Phi and Omicron Delta Epsilon. He is also a graduate of the Executive Training Program of the University of Chicago. He has been a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Augsburg in Germany, and Stanford University. He has also taught as an adjunct professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He was a professor and the Chair of the Department of Economics, University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. He has served as the President of the National Association of Business Economists (Bay Area chapter), a member of the National Petroleum Council Task Force on Oil Prices, and the quarterly Chair of the Commonwealth Club of California. He is a past Chairman of the Economics Committee, Edison Electric Institute in Washington, D.C. He is a member of the University of California President’s Board on Science & Innovation.
Tapan Munroe is also a Foundation Trustee of the University of California at Merced; a member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Pacific Rim Studies at the University of San Francisco; and was a Trustee of the San Francisco Art Institute. He has been a Director of the Capital Corporation of the West, a bank holding company. He is also on the Advisory Board of the International Business Incubator in San Jose; California.
He is a widely published author and a nationally known speaker and has been a frequent commentator on regional and national radio and news programs. He has been a bi-weekly economics columnist for the Knight Ridder newspapers for many years. | 