Director
John Shoven, Ph.D.
Charles Schwab Professor of Economics
Wallace R. Hawley Director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)
Since 2009, John B. Shoven has served as Director of FRESH-Thinking. He is also the Charles R. Schwab Professor of Economics and the Wallace R. Hawley Director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. Dr. Shoven has served on the Board of Directors of Cadence Design Systems since 1992 and has been Chairman since 2005. He chairs the compensation committee and serves on both the nominating and governance committee and the audit committee. He also serves on the boards of Exponent, Inc. and American Century Funds. Dr. Shoven has a B.A. in physics from UCSD and a Ph.D. in economics from Yale. He has been on the Stanford faculty since 1973 where he is a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a former Vice President of the American Economic Association. At Stanford, he has served as Chairman of the Economics Department and as Dean of Humanities and Sciences. He was a recipient of the Paul A. Samuelson Award for Outstanding Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security and is an award winning teacher at Stanford. In 2000, he was named one of the forty outstanding alumni of UCSD. His research fields include corporate finance, corporate taxation, pension plans, Social Security and Medicare, and public finance. He has published more than twenty books and one hundred professional articles.
Ezekiel J. Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D.
Ezekiel J. Emanuel is the Chair of the Department of Clinical Bioethics at the Warren G. Magnuson Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health. He is also a breast oncologist. After completing Amherst College, he received his M.Sc. from Oxford University in Biochemistry. He received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School and his Ph.D. in political philosophy from Harvard University. His dissertation received the Toppan Award for the finest political sciences dissertation of the year. He was a fellow in the Program in Ethics and the Professions at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.
After completing his internship and residency in internal medicine at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital and his oncology fellowship at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, he joined the faculty at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Dr. Emanuel was an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School. He has published widely on the ethics of clinical research, advance care directives, end of life care issues, euthanasia, the ethics of managed care, and the physician-patient relationship in The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, JAMA, and many other medical journals. His book on medical ethics, The Ends of Human Life, has been widely praised and received honorable mention for the Rosenhaupt Memorial Book Award by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.
He has received numerous awards including the AMA-Burroughs Wellcome Leadership Award and a Fulbright Scholarship. Dr. Emanuel served on the ethics section of President Clinton's Health Care Task Force, the National Bioethics Advisory Commission, and on PAHO. Dr. Emanuel has been a visiting professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and the Brin Professor at Johns Hopkins Medical School.
Victor R. Fuchs, M.D.
Victor R. Fuchs is the Henry J. Kaiser Jr. Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, where he applies economic analysis to social problems of national concern, with special emphasis on health and medical care. He was Professor of Economics in the Economics Department and the School of Medicine's Department of Health Research and Policy from 1974 to 1995. His published work covers a wide spectrum of subjects ranging from health and medical care to issues of aging, gender, and children. He is author of nine books, the editor of six others, and has published over a hundred articles.
His best known work, Who Shall Live? Health, Economics, and Social Choice (1974; expanded edition 1998), helps health professionals and policy makers to understand the economic and policy problems in health that have emerged in recent decades. Other books include The Service Economy (1968), How We Live (1983), The Health Economy (1986), Women's Quest For Economic Equality (1988), and The Future of Health Policy (1993). He is the editor of Individual and Social Responsibility: Child Care, Education, Medical Care, and Long-term Care in America (1996).
Professor Fuchs was elected president of the American Economic Association in 1995. His contributions have also been recognized by his election to the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He has received the John R. Commons Award, Emily Mumford Medal for Distinguished Contributions to Social Science in Medicine, Distinguished Investigator Award (Association for Health Services Research), Baxter Foundation Health Services Research Prize, and Madden Distinguished Alumni Award (New York University).
Professor Fuchs has been a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research since 1962, and was Vice President of the NBER from 1968 to 1978. He has twice been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. His current research topics include reform of the financing, organization and delivery of healthcare, the political economy of national health insurance, and the non-medical determinants of health.