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Nov 24, 2012

Major Garrett is a White House correspondent for National Journal and also contributes to 2012 Decoded. Prior to National Journal, Garret reported for Fox News, where he was the Chief White House Correspondent. During his eight years at Fox, Garrett also covered Congress, two presidential elections, the war in Iraq...


Nov 24, 2012

Agustín Carstens was born June 9, 1958 in Mexico City. He holds a M.A. (1983) and a Ph.D. (1985) in economics from the University of Chicago. He received his B.A. in economics (summa cum laude) from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) in 1982, with a thesis on determining the forward exchange rate in...


Oct 1, 2012

David Wessel is economics editor of The Wall Street Journal and writes the "Capital” column, a weekly look at the economy and forces shaping living standards around the world. He also appears frequently on National Public Radio and WETA’s Washington Week. His book, In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke’s War on the Great...


May 18, 2012

Narayana Kocherlakota became president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis on October 8, 2009. Kocherlakota has served as a professor of economics at the University of Minnesota since 2005, where he chaired the department from 2006-2008. Since 1999 he has also served as a consultant...


May 7, 2012

Pascal Lamy is the Director-General of the World Trade Organization since September 2005. Mr. Lamy holds degrees from the Paris based Ecole des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (IEP) and from the Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA). He began his career in the French...