Appointment of Allan H. Meltzer as a Member of the President's Economic Policy Advisory Board

The President today announced his intention to appoint Allan H. Meltzer to be a member of the President's Economic Policy Advisory Board. This is an initial appointment.

Since 1957 Dr. Meltzer has been a professor at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, and since 1980 he has been a John M. Olin Professor of Political Economy and Public Policy at Carnegie-Mellon. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard University, the University of Chicago, the University of Rochester, the Yugoslav Institute for Economic Research, the Austrian Institute for Advanced Study, the Getulio Vargas Foundation in Rio de Janeiro, and the City University, London. Dr. Meltzer also is an author of several books, and his writings have appeared in numerous journals.

Dr. Meltzer graduated from Duke University (A.B., 1948) and the University of California, Los Angeles (M.A., 1955; Ph.D., 1958). He was born February 6, 1928, in Boston, MA. He is married, has three children, and resides in Pittsburgh.