Fellows Named at KSG's Center for Business and Government

The 1998-99 fellows at the Center for Business and Governmentat the Kennedy School of Government are as follows:

Jong-Rong Chen is a professor in the Graduate Institute of Industrial Economics at National Central University in Taiwan. His experience includes four years as the director of the Graduate Institute, a visiting research fellow at Nagoya University, chairman of the Department of Economics at National Central University, and visiting lecturer at North Carolina State University. Chen received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of North Carolina, an M.A. from the University of Kansas, and his B.A. from Soochow University.

While at the Center for Business and Government, Chen will conduct research on policy issues of cooperative R&D by high-tech firms. He has moved to Cambridge from Taiwan with his wife and two daughters.

Francine Cunningham will be a research associate with the Center under a European Union Fulbright Award. She is currently a writer for the Scotsman, one of Scotland's national newspapers, where she has been assigned as the European correspondent based in Brussels. She has also worked for the Sunday Business Post, Ireland's leading financial newspaper, where she had several assignments including European correspondent, chief feature writer, and arts editor. Cunningham has been a guest commentator on RTE TV and has been interviewed on RTE radio and the BBC.

Cunningham is a graduate of Queen's University in Belfast and has a postgraduate diploma in journalism from Dublin City University. While at the Center, she will be doing research into how the changing political economy of the European Union is influencing the transatlantic alliance.

Jerome Grossman is chairman of the newly formed corporation, Health Quality LLC, dedicated to developing measurement and information solutions for providers and purchasers of healthcare. Prior to this, he was chairman and CEO of New England Medical Center in Boston and a professor of medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. Grossman started his medical career as a member of the staff of Massachusetts General Hospital, where he served in a variety of positions, including assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. He was also one of the original staff of the Harvard Community Health Plan Health Maintenance Organization, where he developed the world's first automated medical record system known as COSTAR. In addition, Grossman is the former chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and a present or former trustee of Wellesley College, M.I.T., and the Boston Public Library Foundation.

Grossman is a graduate of M.I.T. and received his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He is doing research on the relationship between state and local government and the health care industry.

Doug Jones is professor of regulatory economics, School of Public Policy and Management, Ohio State University (1978 to present). He was the first director of the National Regulatory Research Institute (1978 through June 1998). He received his B.A. from the University of New Hampshire in 1955 and the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the Ohio State University in 1956 and 1960, respectively. He taught economics at the U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado, and has been a lecturer and adjunct professor at other universities. Jones also served as regional economist to the Secretary of Commerce in the Johnson Administration and as a legislative assistant in the U.S. Senate. From 1972 to 1977 he served as specialist in Public Utility and National Resource Economics, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress. He received the 1993 Distinguished Member Award from the Transportation and Public Utilities Group (TPUG) of the American Economic Association and the 995 Distinguished Service Award from the Public Utility Research Center, University of Florida, Gainesville. Jones served as President of TPUG in 1997.

Jones has provided technical assistance to the governments of Argentina, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Egypt, and Canada in the field of public utility regulation over the past five years.

Paul Joskow is currently head of the Economics Department at M.I.T., where he is also the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics. He has been at M.I.T. for over 25 years and has spent time as a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, a year as a visiting professor at the Kennedy School, and two years as a visiting scholar at the Harvard Law School. He has published numerous articles and books with a focus on regulation and the public utility industry. Joskow has served as a consultant to many corporations and institutions including the World Bank, the Rand Corp., and the National Economic Research Associates.

Joskow received his undergraduate degree from Cornell and graduate degrees from Yale University. His research at the Center for Business and Government will be on issues related to electric utility and telecommunications regulation. Professor Joskow and his wife live in Brookline, MA.

Masahiro Kuroda is dean, Department of Business and Commerce, at Keio University in Tokyo, one of the leading private universities in Japan. He has also served as director of the Keio Economic Observatory and as professor in Keio University's Department of Business and Commerce. From 1978 to 1980 he was a Fulbright Scholar in the Department of Economics at Harvard University. Kuroda is also chairman of the Industrial Finance Committee, the Industrial Structure Council at MITI. He has published numerous books and articles, his most recent being Quantitative Analysis of General Equilibrium published in Japanese.

While at the Center, Kuroda will be working with Professor Dale Jorgenson on the completion of a book on Japan-U.S. economic comparisons.

William P. Madar is vice chairman and CEO of Nordson Corp., a multinational manufacturer and marketer of systems that apply adhesives, sealants and coatings to consumer and industrial products during manufacturing operations. Madar's career, which includes 20 years with the Standard Oil Co. of Ohio (now, BP America), is marked by many significant accomplishments in the growth and development of international business. He is actively involved in civic and community initiatives, with a particular interest in education.

Madar holds a B.Sc. from Purdue University and an M.B.A. from Stanford. While at the Center for Business and Government, he will undertake research on issues related to the relationship between business, government, education and community development. Madar and his wife are moving from Cleveland.

Pierre Sauve is a principal economist in the Trade Policy Strategies and Linkages Division of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Trade Directorate in Paris. Prior to joining OECD, he served as services negotiator within the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs with NAFTA, and was an economic affairs officer in the Secretariat of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) in Geneva. In addition, Sauve has also worked with the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, and as an economic advisor to the Government of Quebec's Executive Council Ministry.

Sauve has graduate degrees in economics from Cambridge University in the U.K., and in international affairs from Carleton College in Ottawa, Canada. His undergraduate degree is from the Universite du Quebec a Montreal. While at the Center for Business and Government, he will examine the economic benefits and practical negotiating structure of bringing about the international competitiveness of markets. He and his wife and three children are moving to the Cambridge area from Paris.

Carl Speilvogel is chairman and CEO of Carl Speilvogel Associates, an international management and marketing consulting company. He is one of the country's leading global business and marketing executives, and has conducted trade in 55 countries in his 30-year career. His past responsibilities include chairman and CEO of United Auto Group Inc., the nation's largest publicly owned automobile dealership group, Chairman of Bates Worldwide Inc., one of the world's largest marketing and advertising communications companies, vice chairman of the Interpublic Group of Companies Inc., also a major marketing communications company, and chairman of the Executive Committee of McCann-Erickson Inc., Interpublic's largest operating company.

Spielvogel serves on the board of several major companies as well as numerous philanthropic organizations. While at the Center, he will research issues related to the relationship of business and government.

Daniel Yergin is president of Cambridge Energy Research Authority, a leading energy consulting firm. He has been a lecturer at Harvard Business School and the Kennedy School. He is considered a leading authority on world affairs and the oil business. His book, Shattered Peace, has become a classic history of the origins of the Cold War. He is coauthor of Energy Future: Report of the Energy Project at the Harvard Business School, a report on energy policy. He is also author of The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power.

Yergin received a B.A. from Yale University and a Ph.D. from Cambridge University, where he was a Marshall Scholar.