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Edward Foster
is professor and chairman, Department of Economics, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, where he has taught since 1961. His research has been in the
costs of inflation, and in cost-benefit analysis. .He has done part-time consulting
in forensic economics since the mid-1960s. Dr. Foster received his Ph. D.
in economic from MIT in 1961. His background in actuarial science includes
2 years’ employment with the actuarial department of a life insurance company,
a year of graduate study in actuarial science (Occidental College, Los Angeles),
and successful completion of the first four of five examinations then required
to become an associate of the Society of Actuaries.
Janet L. Johnson received
her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where
her training focused on labor economics and econometrics. She has served
on the faculty at Syracuse University and as an adjunct professor at University
of Colorado-Boulder. She currently is an
adjunct professor in the Andrew Young School of Public Policy at Georgia
State University. Over the past 15 years, Dr. Johnson has developed
an independent consulting practice, Johnson & Associates, which focuses
on forensic economics, human resources consulting, and statistical analysis.
She has prepared numerous appraisals of economic loss in cases of personal
injury, wrongful death, employment termination, and business torts, and has
testified in over 100 trials or arbitrations. She has particular interest
and expertise in the statistical analysis of pay and employment practices
multiple plaintiff or class action suits alleging discrimination.
Gerald D. Martin
earned his Ph.D. in Finance at Arizona State University, has taught at several
universities and is Professor Emeritus at California State University, Fresno.
He began work as a forensic economist in 1973 while still teaching.
In 1992, he retired from teaching to devote full-time to his consulting work.
He has written a variety of articles and presented numerous papers at meetings
of NAFE, AAEFE, and AREA. His book on forensic economics, first published
in 1988 and revised annually, has been used as a text in economic classes
in over a dozen universities. He has been a board member of AREA and
in January, 2002, began a three year term as NAFE vice- president at large.
James D. Rodgers
is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Penn State University. He received
his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Virginia in 1970. Dr.
Rodgers has taught a variety of graduate and undergraduate courses in economics,
including upper division undergraduate courses in forensic economics and the
economics of accident law. His research in the area of forensic economics
includes published work on age-earnings profiles, the personal maintenance
deduction, the valuation of time spent in non-market activities, and the
valuation of Social Security benefits; he is also the co-author of a recent
book on expert economic testimony. Dr. Rodgers has worked as an economic
consultant since 1976, preparing economic damage appraisal reports and trial
testimony pertaining thereto. He is the current President of the National
Association of Forensic Economics. For more information, go to Dr. Rodgers' web site.
Gary R. Skoog
earned his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Minnesota in 1976 and
a BA from the University of Michigan in economics and actuarial science in
1968. He has taught at the University of Minnesota, the University of Wisconsin,
and the University of Chicago; currently he is teaching at De Paul University
and practicing forensic economics with Legal Econometrics, Inc. located in
Glenview, Illinois, a northern suburb of Chicago. E-mail: gskoog@umich.edu;
Phone: 847-729-6154; FAX 847-729-6158. He has taught graduate courses
in microeconomics, macroeconomics, statistical analysis, business and economic
forecasting, applied time series, and econometric theory and undergraduate
principles. His forensic economics research centers on worklife expectancy
- its general theory, applications and misapplications, especially regarding
disability.
John O. Ward, Phd.
is the founding editor of the Journal of Forensic Economics and
still co-editor of that journal. For more information, go to Dr. Ward's web site.
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