Council on Wage and Price Stability Nomination of Barry P. Bosworth To Be Director.

The President today announced that he will nominate Barry P. Bosworth, of Silver Spring, Md., to be Director of the Council on Wage and Price Stability. He would replace Michael H. Moskow.

Bosworth was born August 14, 1942, in Kent County, Mich. He received a B.A. (1964) and Ph.D. (1969) in economics from the University of Michigan.

Bosworth was on the staff of the Council of Economic Advisers in 1968. He was an instructor at Harvard University in 1969, and an assistant professor from 1969 to 1971. He has been at the Brookings Institution since 1971, as a research associate from 1971 to 1976 and a senior fellow since 1976. He was a visiting lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley in 1974-75.

Bosworth is the author of several Brookings papers and other articles on economics.