Profiles.

• Position: Economists

Olivier J. Blanchard

Olivier J. Blanchard, a professor at MIT, has been an NBER Research Associate since 1982.

Blanchard received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1977, taught at Harvard University until 1983, and has been at MIT since. He is a fellow and a member of the Council of the Econometric Society, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He also has been a coeditor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics since 1984.

Blanchard is the author, with Stanley Fischer, of Lectures on Economics, published by the MIT Press. Apart from his work on unemployment, he has spent much of his time in the past few years working on transition in Central Europe, and is a coauthor of three recent books, Reform in Eastern Europe, East-West Migration, and Post Communist Reform: Pain and Progress, all published by the MIT Press.

Blanchard and his wife, Noelle, live in Cambridge and have three children. They have remained true to their roots, and spend their summers in France. Blanchard's athletic goal is to one day beat Larry Summers at tennis.

Marcel Boyer

Marcel Boyer is the Stephen A. Jarislowsky Professor of Economics and Industrial Engineering at the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal and professor of economics at the University of Montreal. He has represented the Canadian Economics Association, of which he was president in 1990-1, on the NBER's Board of Directors since 1991.

Boyer holds a Ph.D. in economics from Carnegie-Mellon University. He taught at York University in 1971-3, and at the University of Quebec in 1973-4, before joining the University of Montreal faculty. He is a member of the Royal Society of Canada and the National Statistics Committee of Canada.

Boyer is also vice president and scientific director of the Center for Interuniversity Research on the Analysis of Organizations, a new research center created by six universities, four corporations, and the government of Quebec. In his limited free time, he enjoys cross-country skiing, oldtimer hockey, and canoeing.

Boyer and his wife, Nicole Lavigne, have three children: Martin, 24, a Ph.D student at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania; Franois, 22, who spent six months with the Canadian Army in Cyprus and is now working in Montreal; and Julie, 20, who is a third-year medical student at the University of Montreal.

Don R. Conlan

Don R. Conlan is president and a director of The Capital Group, Inc., a large Los Angeles-based investment management organization that has...