Sidney L. Jones
He currently is a Director of the Sit Mutual Fund Group in Minneapolis and a senior adviser to Lawrence & Company, an investments firm in Toronto.
After completing his Ph.D. at Stanford University, he began an academic career at Northwestern University and then joined the faculty of The University of Michigan, becoming a full professor in 1968.
In 1969, he joined his distinguished Michigan colleague Paul W. McCracken at the Council of Economic Advisers to the President as a Senior Economist and Special Assistant to the Chairman. In July 2000, he published a book on the history of economic policies during the last fifty years, entitled Public and Private Economic Adviser: Paul W. McCracken.
Subsequent government positions included serving as Minister-Counselor to NATO in Brussels, Belgium in the U.S. Foreign Service; Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Policy; and Deputy Assistant to the President for Economic Policy.
In 1974, when Gerald R. Ford became President, Dr. Jones moved to the Treasury Department to become Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy.
With the change of administrations in 1977, he joined the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System as Assistant to the Chairman Arthur F. Burns. He later returned to university teaching and became a Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research.
During the Reagan Administration, he returned to public service as the Under Secretary for Economic Policy at the Department of Commerce.
Finally, he served a second tour as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy during the Bush Administration.
Since leaving government in 1993, he has served on the Adjunct Faculty of The Brookings Institute and as a visiting professor at Carleton College, Dartmouth University, Rice University, Cornell University, Arizona State University, and The University of North Carolina.
He has been associated with The Washington Campus since its beginning in 1978.