Montgomery native Katherine Baicker named to Council of Economic Advisers
By: David Campbell
Princeton Day School graduate and University of California, Los Angeles economist Katherine Baicker was confirmed last week by the U.S. Senate to President George W. Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers.
In September, President Bush nominated Ms. Baicker and Dartmouth College economist Matthew Slaughter to serve on the three-member advisory council.
Ms. Baicker, now affiliated with UCLA, spent seven years at Dartmouth. She is a Harvard-trained economist with expertise in the health-care industry.
She graduated from PDS in 1989 after several years in Montgomery Township schools, earned her undergraduate degree from Yale University and her doctorate from Harvard, said her mother, Montgomery resident Maxine Baicker, who on Monday confirmed her daughter’s appointment to the presidential council.
The Council of Economic Advisers was created in 1946 to advise the president on economic matters. Members are nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate.
Its current chairman is Ben Bernanke, whom President Bush nominated last month to succeed Alan Greenspan as chairman of the Federal Reserve.
Mr. Bernanke, who lives in Montgomery with his wife, Anna, and their two children, was chairman of Princeton University’s economics department from 1996 to 2002.

