Dr. Matthew Slaughter - October 28, 2010

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Matthew J. Slaughter
Signal Companies Professor of Management
Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth

December 6, 2010 Wall Street Journal article by Matthew Slaughter and Robert Kimmitt

Matthew J. Slaughter is the Associate Dean of the MBA Program and the Signal Companies’ Professor of Management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. He is also currently a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research; a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations; a member of the academic advisory board of the International Tax Policy Forum; an academic advisor to the Deloitte Center on Cross-Border Investment; and a member of the U.S. State Department’s Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy.

From 2005 to 2007, Professor Slaughter served as a Member on the Council of Economic Advisers in the Executive Office of the President. In this Senate-confirmed position he held the international portfolio, advising the President, the Cabinet, and many others on issues including international trade and investment, currency and energy markets, and the competitiveness of the U.S. economy. He has also been affiliated with the Federal Reserve Board, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the National Academy of Sciences, the McKinsey Global Institute, the Institute for International Economics, and the Department of Labor.

Professor Slaughter’s area of expertise is the economics and politics of globalization. His current research is examining how multinational firms can best structure their global operations; the labor-market impacts of international trade, investment, and immigration; and the political- economy questions of voter attitudes about and government policies towards globalization. This research has been supported by several grants from organizations including the National Science Foundation and the Russell Sage Foundation. Professor Slaughter has published dozens of articles as book chapters and in peer-reviewed journals; he has co-authored four books, including The Squam Lake Report: Fixing the Financial System and Globalization and the Perceptions of American Workers; he has served and currently serves in various editorial positions for several academic journals; and he has made many presentations at academic conferences and seminars.

Professor Slaughter is a frequent keynote speaker to many audiences in the business and policy communities and he has testified before both chambers of the U.S. Congress. He regularly contributes op-eds to The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post; his ideas are regularly featured in these outlets and others including BusinessWeek, The Economist, The New York Times, Newsweek, and Time. He is a regular guest on TV and radio programs such as CNBC’s Closing Bell and NPR’s All Things Considered. For many years he has consulted both to individual firms and also to industry organizations that support dialogue on issues of international trade, investment, and taxation. And at Tuck he co-directs the flagship executive-education program Global Leadership 2020.

Prior to joining the Tuck faculty in 2002, since 1994 Professor Slaughter had been on the faculty of the economics department at Dartmouth, where in 2001 he received the school-wide John M. Manley Huntington Teaching Award. He received his bachelor’s degree summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Notre Dame in 1990, and his doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1994.