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John Liechty Professor of Marketing and Statistics Pennsylvania State University |
409 BB University Park, PA 16803 (814) 865-0621 jcl12@psu.edu |
Academic
Background
I have two degrees from Brigham Young University, a first
degree in Physics and a second degree in Statistics. I received a Ph.D. in Mathematical Statistics
from the Statistical Laboratory at
the University of Cambridge. My Ph.D. supervisor was Gareth
Roberts.
I
am currently part of the Marketing department in the Smeal College of Business at the Pennsylvania State University and I have a joint
appointment with the department of Statistics. In addition, I am affiliated with In4mation Insights an analytic
Marketing Research firm and I have extensive experience consulting in
the Finance Industry (e.g. Morgan
Stanley and Goldman Sachs).
Research
The Office of Financial Research in the
U.S. Treasury
I was a
founding member and a leading organizer of an effort that resulted in a
provision in the Dodd-Frank Act of
2010 that creates a new Office in the U.S. Treasury, the Office of
Financial Research, which has the mandate to provide better data and analytic
tools to the regulatory community in order to safeguard the U.S. financial
system
Part
of the story of this legislative effort was reported in the Wall
Street Journal and some of my views on the challenges of setting up this
new Office are in summarized in a Bloomberg TV interview
and a radio program on Marketplace (no longer available).
Slides for my talk on Systemic risk at an IT
Innovation Summit, organized by the U.S. Treasury Department, University of
Maryland and Tata Consulting Services. January 2010.
Written testimony for and CSPAN
link for Equipping Financial Regulators with the Tools Necessary to
Monitor Systemic Risk , U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Security and International Trade and
Finance, February 12, 2010.