George Benston is the John H. Harland Professor of Finance, Accounting and Economics at the Goizueta Business School and Professor of Economics in the College of Emory University, Atlanta, GA. Before coming to Emory in 1987 he taught at the University of Rochester and University of Chicago, visited at the London School of Economics, London Business School, Hebrew University, and the University of California at Berkeley, and was the John M. Olin Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Oxford University. He is a member of the Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee and the Financial Economists’ Roundtable. Mr. Benston's Ph.D. is from the University of Chicago (finance and economics), M.B.A. from New York University (accounting) and B.A. from Queens College (liberal arts and accounting), and he is a CPA (North Carolina). He has published over 149 refereed articles, books and monographs, including Regulating Financial Markets: A Critique and Some Proposals (American Enterprise Institute, 1999), and The Separation of Commercial and Investment Banking: The Glass-Steagall Act Revisited and Reconsidered (Oxford Univ. Press, 1990).
Robert W. Hahn is director of the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and a research associate at Harvard University. Previously, he served as a senior staff member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. Mr. Hahn frequently contributes to general-interest periodicals and leading scholarly journals, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, American Economic Review, Science and Yale Law Journal. Most recently, he is the author of Reviving Regulatory Reform: A Global Perspective (AEI-Brookings Joint Center, 2000). In addition, Mr. Hahn is cofounder of the Community Preparatory School––an inner-city middle school in Providence, Rhode Island, that provides opportunities for disadvantaged youth to achieve their full potential.
Robert E. Litan is co-director of the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, vice president and director of the Economic Studies Program and Cabot Family Chair in Economics at the Brookings Institution, co-chairman of the Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee, and co-editor of the Brookings-Wharton Papers on Financial Services and Emerging Markets Finance. Formerly, he was associate director of the Office of Management and Budget, deputy assistant attorney general in the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, and a regulatory specialist for the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. Mr. Litan is the author or coauthor of numerous books and articles on financial institutions, international trade, and regulatory issues. His most recent books include Beyond the Dot.coms (with Alice Rivlin), Economic Payoff from the Internet Revolution (editor, with Alice Rivlin), and The GAAP Gap: Corporate Disclosure in the Internet Age (with Peter Wallison).
Katherine Schipper was appointed to the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) in September 2001. Prior to joining the FASB, she was the L. Palmer Fox Professor of Business Administration at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. Ms. Schipper has published research papers on a range of accounting and corporate finance issues, and has been the recipient of several grants and awards, including the American Accounting Association’s Outstanding Educator award. She has served the American Accounting Association as president and as director of research, and as president of the Financial Accounting and Reporting Section. She was a member of the FASB’s Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council (FASAC) from 1996 to 1999. She has been a member of the board of directors of MDT Corporation and of the Acorn Funds. Ms. Schipper holds a B.A. degree from the University of Dayton, M.B.A., M.A. and Ph.D degrees from the University of Chicago and an honorary degree from Notre Dame University.
