Dr. Richard
W. Rahn
Senior Fellow | Cato Institute
Chairman | Institute for Global Economic Growth
Richard W. Rahn is a senior fellow of the Cato Institute, Chairman
of the Institute for Global Economic Growth and Chairman of the Advisory
Board of the European Center for Economic Growth. He has also been
writing a weekly economic column for The Washington Times, since
2001, which appears in many other newspapers around the world.
The Spanish language edition is globally syndicated by AIPE.
Dr Rahn served for two terms (2002-2008) as the first non-Caymanian
member of the Board of Directors of the newly independent Cayman Islands
Monetary Authority, which regulates the world’s largest offshore
financial center. In the 1980s, Dr. Rahn served as Vice President
and Chief Economist of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States,
Executive Vice President and Board member of the National Chamber
Foundation, and as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Economic
Growth. Previously, he was the Executive Director of the American
Council for Capital Formation. In 1990-1991, he served as the U.S.
co-chairman of the Bulgarian Economic Growth and Transition Project.
In 1982, President Reagan appointed Dr. Rahn as a member of the Quadrennial
Social Security Advisory Council. During the 1988 Presidential campaign,
he served as an economic advisor to President G.H.W. Bush.
In 1990, Dr. Rahn founded the Novecon companies, which included Sterling
Semiconductor (now owned by Dow Corning).
Professor Rahn has taught at Florida State, George Mason, George Washington,
and Rutgers Universities; and at the Polytechnic University of New
York, where he served as head of the graduate Department of Management.
He also was an instructor for the U.S. Air Force and the Washington
economic advisor for New York Mercantile Exchange.
Dr. Rahn is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society. He serves as a member
of the Board of: the American Council for Capital Formation, the Small
Business & Entrepreneurship Council, and the Institute for Research
on the Economics of Taxation and as a member of the Board of Visitors
of the Pepperdine University School of Public Policy.
Dr. Rahn has written hundreds of articles for newspapers and magazines
such as the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times,
USA Today, American Spectator, The Weekly Standard,
National Review, and The National Interest. He has contributed
to numerous books and professional journals, and is the author of
the book The End of Money and the Struggle for Financial Privacy
(1999). As an economic commentator, he has appeared on such programs
as the Today Show, Good Morning America, Wall Street Week, MacNeil-Lehrer
Newshour and Crossfire, and was a weekly commentator for Radio America.
He has testified before the U.S. Congress on economic issues more
than seventy-five times.
Dr. Rahn earned: a B.A. in economics at the University of South Florida,
from which he received the "Distinguished Alumnus Award,”
an M.B.A. from Florida State University, a Ph.D. from Columbia University,
and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws by Pepperdine University.
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