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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