2003 SPEAKER BIOS

John Berry is a columnist for The Washington Post who covers the Federal Reserve. Berry joined The Post in 1979 after spending a few years as the national economic correspondent for Time magazine and later as the Washington bureau manager for Forbes. Berry’s stories are carried by the Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service and are widely used in the United States and abroad. He is a frequent contributor to the International Herald-Tribune, and his work has appeared in Fortune, Financier and Central Banking.

Russ Cooper is a professor of economics at Boston University, where he has taught since 1990. Cooper has also taught at Iowa and Yale University, and has been a visiting scholar and professor at universities and government institutions around the world, including the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and the Fed’s Board of Governors. He received his master’s degree and doctorate in economics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Kathleen Hansen is a professor at the University of Minnesota School of Journalism and Mass Communication, where she has taught for 22 years. She is also the director of the Minnesota Journalism Center, the School’s outreach and professional development unit. She is the co-author with Nora Paul, of the forthcoming Behind the Message, co-author with Shannon Martin of Newspapers of Record in the Digital Age, and the co-author, with Jean Ward, of Search Strategies in Mass Communication (3rd edition). Hansen has written scholarly and trade journal articles about the role of technology in newsmaking and teaches students how to gather and evaluate information for media messages.

Anne O. Krueger is the First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, a post she assumed on September 1, 2001. Prior to taking up her position at the Fund, Ms. Krueger was the Herald L. and Caroline L. Ritch Professor in Humanities and Sciences in the Department of Economics at Stanford University. She was also the Director of Stanford's Center for Research on Economic Development and Policy Reform and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution.

Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, she taught at the University of Minnesota and Duke University and, from 1982 to 1986, was the World Bank's Vice President for Economics and Research. She received her undergraduate degree from Oberlin College and her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin.

Krueger is a Distinguished Fellow and past President of the American Economic Association, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. A recipient of a number of economic prizes and awards, she has published extensively on policy reform in developing countries, the role of multilateral institutions in the international economy, and the political economy of trade policy. Recent books edited by Krueger include "Economic Policy Reform: The Second Stage" (2000), "The WTO as an International Organization" (2000) and "Changes in Exchange Rates in Rapidly Developing Countries: Theory, Practice and Policy Issues" (1999; with Takatoshi Ito).

Mike Meyers, 53, covers economics for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, where he’s worked since 1984. A graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, he studied domestic economics as a Sloan Fellow at Princeton University and international economics as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.

Arthur J. Rolnick is senior vice president and director of research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and an associate economist with the Federal Open Market Committee. As a top official of the Federal Reserve Bank, Rolnick regularly attends meetings of the Federal Open Market Committee-the Fed’s principal body responsible for establishing national credit money and credit policies.

Rolnick’s annual report essays on such public policy issues as “Congress Should End the Economic War Among the States” and “A Plan to Address the Too-Big-To-Fail Problem” have gained national attention. His research interests include banking and financial economics, monetary policy, monetary history, the economics of federalism, and the economics of early childhood development.

Gary Stern became president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis in March 1985. As a Federal Reserve Bank president, he serves as a member of the Federal Open Market Committee-the Fed’s principal body responsible for establishing national money and credit policies.

Stern, a native of Wisconsin, joined the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis in January 1982 as senior vice president and director of research. Before joining the Minneapolis Fed, Stern was a partner in a New York-based economic consulting firm. Stern’s prior experience includes seven years at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Chris Worthington is the managing editor for news and business at the St. Paul Pioneer Press. He joined the Pioneer Press in 1997 after 13 years at the Dallas Morning News, where he had a variety of editing assignments, including business, regional news and sports. He’s also worked at Newsday, the Fort Lauderdale News and the Fort Myers News-Press. He earned an MBA from the University of Dallas in 1995 and graduated from the University of Southern California 1979 with a journalism degree. He grew up in New York and lives in Shoreview, Minn.