Manuel H. Johnson
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Dr. Manuel H. Johnson is Co-Chairman of Johnson Smick International, a consulting firm in Washington, D.C. that specializes in economic and political policy effects in global financial markets.
Dr. Johnson received his Ph.D. in economics from Florida State University. He served in the United States Treasury as the Assistant Secretary for Policy, during the Reagan administration. On February 7th, 1986, Dr. Johnson assumed his post as a Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, where he served until August 3, 1990.[1]
From August 1, 1997 until December 2003, Dr. Johnson was the chairman of the Board of Trustees and president of the Financial Accounting Foundation, which oversees the Financial Accounting Standards Board.[2] Also during 1997, Dr. Johnson was named a member of the Independence Standards Board (which was dissolved on July 31, 2001), formed jointly by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Dr. Johnson is a founder and co-chairman of the Group of Seven Council, an international commission supporting economic cooperation among the major industrial nations. He is a director of Morgan Stanley Funds, Greenwich Capital Markets, Inc. and KFx, Inc.
Dr. Johnson was a professor of economics at George Mason University. His work focuses on markets and their potential for informing and guiding monetary policy.
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