Hoover Institution Fellows On Bush Education Plan, Bush Economic Policies, Food Biotech, Israeli...

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STANFORD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 30, 2001

Fellows at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University are available to comment on the following topics. They may be reached directly or through the Office of Public Affairs at 650-723-0603.

BUSH

Williamson M. Evers, Research Fellow. Expertise: Education, especially curriculum and instructional policy, public policy and political theory. Author: What's Gone Wrong in America's Classrooms (Hoover Institution Press, 1998). Evers' op-ed columns have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and Christian Science Monitor. 650/723-4148.

Eric A. Hanushek, Senior Fellow. Expertise: Education finance and reform, class size policy, economics of education. Author: Making Schools Work (Brookings Institution, 1994). 650/736-0942.

Terry M. Moe, Senior Fellow. Expertise: Education policy, school choice and vouchers, organization and performance of public and private schools. Author: Politics, Markets, and America's Schools (with John E. Chubb), editor of Private Vouchers (Hoover Institution Press, 1995). 650/725-8212.

Paul E. Peterson, Senior Fellow. Expertise: Education and urban politics. Peterson is the Director of Harvard University's Program on Education Policy and Governance. Author: Learning from School Choice (1998). 650/723-2899.

BUSH ECONOMIC POLICIES

Martin Anderson, Senior Fellow. Expertise: The presidency, U.S. political system, U.S. economic and social policy, national security, strategic defense, higher education, campaign financing. Adviser to the Bush campaign. Author: Revolution: The Reagan Legacy (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990). Contact: 650-723-4742.

Michael Boskin, Senior Fellow. Expertise: Tax and budget theory and policy, U.S. savings and consumption patterns. Member of the panel of advisers to the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation and the advisory board of the Congressional Budget Office. Contact: 650-723-6482.

John Cogan, Senior Fellow. Expertise: The federal budget and domestic human resources policy, the role of the congressional budget process in producing federal budget growth and deficits. Author: The Budget Puzzle (with Tom Muris and Alan Schick, Stanford University Press, 1994). Contact: 650-723-2585.

John Taylor, Senior Fellow. Expertise: Monetary, fiscal, and international economic policy, created formulas for wage and price setting and models for economic policy evaluation. Member of the Congressional Budget Office's Panel of Economic Advisers. Contact: 650-723-9677.

FOOD BIOTECHNOLOGY

Henry I. Miller, M.D., Senior Research Fellow. Expertise: Agricultural and food biotechnology policy issues. Author: "Genetically modified fear and the international regulation of biotechnology" (with Gregory Conko) in Rethinking Risk and the Precautionary Principle, ed. Julian Morris (Butterworth Heinemann, 2000). Contact: 650-725-0185.

THE ISRAELI ELECTION/ ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Senior Fellow. Expertise: International conflict, foreign policy formation, trends in political change that influence economic development, political stability. Author: Principles of International Politics (Congressional Quarterly Press, 2000). Contact: 650-725-4202.

Charles Hill, Research Fellow. Expertise: Middle East peace process, international political affairs. Served as special consultant on policy to the secretary-general of the United Nations from 1992 -1996. Author: Unvanquished: A U.S.-U.N. Saga (co-authored with Dr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Random House, 1999). Contact at Yale 203-432-6291.

Abraham D. Sofaer, Senior Fellow. Expertise: International relations, national security affairs, United Nations peacekeeping and nation building. Legal adviser, U.S. Department of State, 1985-1990. Contact: 650-725-3763.

CALIFORNIA ELECTRICITY CRISIS

Lawrence J. McQuillan, Research Fellow. Expertise: Electricity deregulation. Author: "Electricity `Dereg': How Much Will You Save?" in Consumer's Research (August, 1999). Contact: 650-723-0603.

David R. Henderson, Research Fellow. Expertise: Public policy; the unintended consequences of government regulation and spending. Author: edited The Fortune Encyclopedia of Economics (Warner Books, 1993). Contact: 650-723-0621.

NATIONAL MISSILE DEFENSE

Bruce Berkowitz, Research Fellow. Expertise: National security affairs, technology policy, defense and intelligence issues. Author: Best Truth: Intelligence in the Information Age (with Allan Goodman, Yale University Press, 2000) and The Need to Know: Covert Action and American Democracy (with Allan Goodman, 20th Century Fund, 1992). Contact by e-mail at bdb@pop.erols.com.

Sidney Drell, Senior Fellow. Expertise: Arms control, national security, theoretical physics. Author: Reducing Nuclear Danger (co-authored with McGeorge Bundy and William J. Crowe, Jr., The Council on Foreign Relations, 1993). Contact by e-mail at drell@slac.stanford.edu.

Abraham D. Sofaer, Senior Fellow. Expertise: International relations, national security affairs, United Nations peacekeeping and nation building. Legal adviser, U.S. Department of State, 1985-1990. Contact: 650-725-3763.