Matthew Slaughter

One of today's brightest minds in economics, Matthew Slaughter, addresses both the near-term challenges facing the US and world economy as well as the long-term opportunities. He is a member of the Congressional Budget Office’s Panel of Economic Advisors and was a member on the Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) in the Executive Office of the President from 2005 to 2007. While with the CEA, Slaughter advised the president, the Cabinet, and many others on issues including international trade and investment, currency and energy markets, and the competitiveness of the US economy. The dean of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, Slaughter is regarded as a passionate and innovative teacher, and his courses are among the most popular at the school. He is also the founding faculty director of Tuck’s Center for Global Business and Government.

Approachable and enthusiastic, Slaughter makes practical sense of economic data, forces, and policies. He frequently advises global companies and organizations on international market opportunities, the effects of governmental policies on various industries, and the policies of global leaders like China, India, and Japan. His areas of expertise include the economics and politics of globalization, policy responses to the world financial crisis, the labor-market impacts of international trade, investment and immigration, and the global operations of multinational firms. Exclusively represented by Leading Authorities, Inc. speakers bureau, Slaughter is also the co-author of three books, including The Squam Lake Report: Fixing the Financial System and Globalization and the Perceptions of American Workers.

Global Expertise. Slaughter is currently a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the advisory committee of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, and a member of the academic advisory board of the International Tax Policy Forum. He has previously been an academic advisor to the McKinsey Global Institute and a member of the State Department’s Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy. He has also been affiliated with the Federal Reserve Board, the International Monetary Fund, The World Bank, and the National Academy of Sciences.

He has testified before both chambers of the US Congress. He regularly contributes op-eds to The Financial Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post, and his ideas are widely featured in these and other business publications such as The Economist. He has also appeared on several TV and radio programs such as CNBC’s Squawk Box and Closing Bell, NPR’s All Things Considered and Morning Edition, and PBS’s NewsHour.

Academia. Slaughter has been on the faculty at Dartmouth University since 1994, where in 2001 he received the school-wide John M. Manley Huntington Teaching Award and in 2012 he received Tuck’s Class of 2011 Teaching Excellence Award. He also co-directs the flagship executive-education program Global Leadership 2030. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Notre Dame, and he received his doctorate from MIT.

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