Richard W. Rahn is an economist.  He is Chairman of Novecon Financial Ltd., Washington DC, and of  The Prosperity Institute, Alexandria, VA, a senior fellow of the Discovery Institute, and an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute.

Dr. Rahn was the founding Chairman of Novecon Technologies Corp., which is now Sterling Semiconductor, a subsidiary of Uniroyal Technology.  In the 1980s, he served as Vice President and Chief Economist of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, Executive Vice President and member of the board of the National Chamber Foundation, and as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Economic Growth.  He also served as the Executive Director of the American Council for Capital Formation, and as the Washington economic consultant for the New York Mercantile Exchange.  He has been an instructor at Florida State University and for the U.S. Air Force.  And he has taught at the graduate level at George Mason, George Washington and Rutgers Universities and Polytechnic University of New York, where he served as head of the graduate Department of Management.  As a market economy and supply-side advocate, Dr. Rahn has advised senior government officials on tax and monetary issues in a number of countries, including Russia, Estonia and Hungary.  He served as the U.S. co-chairman of the Bulgarian Economic Growth and Transition Project in 1990.

Dr. Rahn is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society.  He serves as a member of the Board of:
-    the American Council for Capital Formation,
-    the Small Business Survival Committee,
-    the Southeastern Legal Foundation,
-    the Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation, and
-    the Institute for Political Economy,
as a member of the Advisory Board of:
-    the Private Sector Council, and
-    the Center for the American Founding,
and as a member of the Board of Visitors of the Pepperdine University School of Public Policy.
He was appointed by President Reagan in 1982 as a member of the Quadrennial Social Security Advisory Council, and he served as an economic advisor to President Bush during the 1988 Presidential campaign.

Dr. Rahn has written hundreds of articles on tax and economic issues for newspapers and magazines such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Times, American Spectator and The Weekly Standard, and has contributed to numerous books and for professional journals.  As an economic commentator, he has appeared on such programs as the Today Show, Good Morning America, Wall Street Week, MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour and Crossfire, and was a weekly commentator for Radio America.  He has been a keynote speaker in- and outside of the beltway and the United States (e.g. at the Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime where, with "Taxation, Money Laundering and Liberty"  http://www.solami.com/RR13Sep.doc, he followed up on his earlier ground-breaking work "Why the War on Money Laundering is Counter-productive", and at the Nassau Institute workshop, with an outline of the findings of the U.S. Task Force on Information Exchange and Financial Privacy on which he serves and which published the "Report on Financial Privacy, Law Enforcement and Terrorism" http://www.prosperity-institute.org/projects/PI-TF-Report.pdf).  He is the author of the recent book "The End of Money and the Struggle for Financial Privacy" (see also: "The Future of Money and Financial Privacy", in: "The Future of Financial Privacy", Competitive Enterprise Institute, September 2000, http://www.cei.org/PDFs/rahn.pdf).  And he has testified before the U.S. Congress on economic issues more than seventy-five times.

Dr. Rahn earned his B.A. in economics at the University of South Florida (1963) from which he received the "Distinguished Alumnus Award”, an M.B.A. from Florida State University (1964), and a Ph.D. in business economics from Columbia University (1972).  He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws by Pepperdine University (1993).

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