Center for Business and Government Names 1999-00 Fellows

September 30, 1999

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The Center for Business and Government (CBG) was established in 1982 to examine the complex relationship between business and government. It seeks to advance our understanding of how business and government can best work together and to help develop solutions to problems at the interface between the public and private sectors.

The CBG Fellows Program brings outstanding scholars from other academic institutions as well as senior business executives to undertake collaborative work with Center faculty. The Fellows join the Center and greatly enrich the Center’s teaching and research efforts.

The Center for Business and Government Fellows for the 1999-2000 academic year are:

W. Lee Baldwin is the John French Professor of Economics Emeritus at Dartmouth College. His research focuses on the application of institutional/evolutionary economics to industrial organization. Baldwin is co-authoring a paper with David Audretsch of Indiana University tentatively titled "Institutions and Industrial Organization." While in Cambridge, Baldwin will also participate in the Economics Department’s industrial organization workshop.

Baldwin has held visiting research and consulting positions in Germany, Hungary, London, Malaysia, and Thailand. He received his B.A. from Duke University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University.

Jerome Grossman is chairman of a newly formed company, Lion Gate Management Corp., dedicated to the development of Internet-based clinical and quality management systems for providers and purchasers of health care. 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 the Medical School. He was also one of the original staff of the Harvard Community Health Plan HMO, where he developed the world’s first automated medical record system, known as COSTAR.

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 government (state and local) and the health industry.

Ira Jackson is executive vice president of BankBoston Corp. As executive director of corporate and community affairs, Jackson oversees corporate communications, government relations and regulatory affairs, public affairs, community investment (CRA) activities, press and public relations, sponsorships, community service activities, philanthropy, and economic analysis.

Jackson came to BankBoston in 1987 after five years as Massachusetts commissioner of revenue, where he launched a successful tax amnesty program and pursued a strategy of vigorous enforcement and expanded customer service. Previously, he was associate dean of the Kennedy School of Government. After graduating from Harvard College, Jackson served as an assistant to the mayors of Newark, N.J., and Boston. Jackson holds a master’s degree from the Kennedy School, and is also a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.

Paul L. Joskow is Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics and Management at M.I.T. where he has been on the faculty since 1972. Joskow is engaged in teaching and research in the areas of industrial organization, energy and environmental economics, and government regulation of industry. He has written three books and more than 70 articles; his work has appeared in publications such as The American Economic Review, The Rand Journal, The New England Journal of Medicine, and Science.

Joskow has been a visiting professor at the Kennedy School and a visiting scholar at the Law School. In addition, he has served as an advisor or consultant to the National Research Council, the Ford Foundation, the World Bank, the Organization for Economic and Cooperative Development (OECD), and other government and non-profit organizations in the United States and abroad. Joskow is president of the Yale University Council and is a fellow of the Econometric Society and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University.

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 Company 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 and an M.B.A. from Stanford. While at the Center for Business and Government, he is undertaking research on issues related to the relationship between business, government, education, and community development.

Evanán Romero joins the Center on a Fulbright Award to conduct research in the development of effective regional energy cooperation in the Americas. Romero’s complex goal involves developing compatible policies for government regulatory institutions as well as appropriate fiscal and legal frameworks in order to encourage investment in, and construction of, necessary infrastructure in the Caribbean, Central, and South American areas. Romero will work with William Hogan and other CBG faculty in the exploration of this topic.

Romero's research will be based on his 36 years in the Venezuelan petroleum industry, in a variety of positions, public and private. In the public sector he was a director and member of the board of Petróleos de Venezuela S.A., a deputy minister of Energy and Mines, a ministry representative to international working and research groups, and a founding vice president of Intevep. In the private sector, Romero was vice president of Teikoku Oil in Venezuela and consultant to other Japanese firms. As an academic, he was an associate professor of engineering at the University of Zulia in Venezuela and helped establish both the Petroleum and Research Institute and the Graduate Engineering School there. Romero received a B.S. in petroleum engineering from the University of Zulia, an M.S. in petroleum engineering from the University of Tulsa, and a D.Eng in engineering management from Stanford University.

Pierre Sauvé is OECD’s Trade Directorate in Paris. Prior to joining OECD, he served as services negotiator in the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, and as an economic affairs officer in the Secretariat of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) in Geneva. In addition, Sauvé 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.

He holds graduate degrees in economics from Cambridge University in the United Kingdom, and in international affairs from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. His undergraduate degree in economics is from the Université du Québec. While at the Center for Business and Government, his work is focusing on the liberalization of trade in services; on the development of rules on foreign direct investment in the multilateral trading system; as well as on some of the systemic challenges confronting the World Trade Organization as it prepares for a new negotiating round.

Prior to 1999, Henry L.P. Schmelzer was the president and chief executive officer of New England Funds L.P., a Boston-based mutual funds company affiliated with Nvest. Before that, he was with New England Securities in various marketing and management positions before becoming president and director. As a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association, Schmelzer has also held legal positions within New England Mutual Life Insurance Company and State Mutual Life Assurance Company. He spent two years in the military intelligence division of the U.S. Army, including a year in Vietnam.

Schmelzer received a B.A. from the University of Maine and a J.D. from George Washington University Law School. As a fellow at the Center, Schmelzer is researching the role hedge funds played in the 1997-98 international financial crisis to determine to what extent, if any, additional regulation is warranted to protect the public interest.

Arvind Subramanian comes to the Center from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington, D.C. Prior to his current position as deputy division chief, Subramanian was the IMF’s resident representative in Egypt, as well as an economist in the Trade Policy Division. He has also spent time as an economist with the GATT Secretariat in Geneva, and as an economics tutor at the University of Oxford.

Subramanian received both his D.Phil and M.Phil in Economics from the University of Oxford, his M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India, and his B.A. from St. Stephens College, Delhi University, India. Subramanian’s research will focus on issues of governance and trade.

Americo Beviglia Zampetti is an administrator for the European Commission — Directorate General I (External Relations), United States Division, Brussels. There, he works on the relations between the European Union and the United States, particularly in the area of public policy. Prior to joining the EC, he was a consultant and administrator at the OECD in Paris, a research assistant at the Free International University of Social Studies, Rome, and a researcher at the Italian Institute for Foreign Trade.

Zampetti received an M.A. in international relations from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, and a Laurea in Political Science from University "La Sapienza," Rome, Italy. He has attended summer programs at Cornell Law School and the London School of Economics. As a Fulbright Scholar, Zampetti will be working on the notion of "fairness" in international trade relations.