| John Taylor | ||||||
Undersecretary of the US Treasury John Taylor is a man who needs no introduction at central banks around the world and in Washington's corridors of power.
A prominent macroeconomist from Stanford University in California, the man has been a fixture in Republican policy-making circles since working for president Gerald Ford's Council of Economic Advisors in 1976. His research, including the well-known Taylor Rule, has gained a wide following for its ability to describe, predict and guide monetary policy.
Taylor, who taught economics at Columbia, Princeton and Yale before joining the Stanford faculty in 1984, displays a decidedly conservative, even cautious demeanour. He is organized and disciplined enough to produce a highly successful series of textbooks while carrying a normal teaching load and continuing to work on his influential research.
But there's another side to the man that made him immensely popular with his 18 and 19-year-old students.