BIOS

Lawrence B. Lindsey
Larry Lindsey is President and Chief Executive Officer of The Lindsey Group. He has held leading positions in government, academia, and business. Prior to forming The Lindsey Group, he held the position of Assistant to the President and Director of the National Economic Council at the White House and was the chief economic adviser to candidate George W. Bush during the 2000 Presidential campaign.

Dr. Lindsey also served as a Governor of the Federal Reserve System from 1991 to 1997, as Special Assistant to the President for Domestic Economic Policy during the first Bush Administration, and as Senior Staff Economist for Tax Policy at the Council of Economic Advisers during President Reagan's first term. Dr. Lindsey served five years on the Economics faculty of Harvard University and held the Arthur F. Burns Chair for Economic Research at the American Enterprise Institute. From 1997 until 2001 he was Managing Director of Economic Strategies, a global consulting firm.

Dr. Lindsey earned his A.B. Magna Cum Laude from Bowdoin College and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. He was awarded the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award by the National Tax Association and named the Citicorp Wriston Fellow for Economic Research at the Manhattan Institute. He is the author of numerous articles and three books: The Growth Experiment, Economic Puppet Masters and What a President Should Know...but Most Learn Too Late.

 

Marc Sumerlin
Marc Sumerlin is Managing Director and co-founder of The Lindsey Group. Previously, Mr. Sumerlin served as Deputy Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Deputy Director of the National Economic Council for President George W. Bush. Prior to the White House, Mr. Sumerlin was the Economic Policy Advisor at the Bush-Cheney 2000 campaign where he advised then-Governor Bush on economic matters. He has also worked as a Senior Analyst and Assistant Economist to the U.S. Senate Budget Committee, a Research Assistant to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and an Accountant with KPMG Peat Marwick.

Mr. Sumerlin holds Master of Arts in Applied Economics from Johns Hopkins University and has a Master of Public Policy from Duke University, where he was a Senator Jacob Javits Fellow. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Georgetown University with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. He is a member of Beta Gamma Sigma, the honor society for business school students, and is a term member at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is the author of numerous articles and the co-author of What a President Should Know...but Most Learn Too Late.


Tim Adams
Tim Adams is Managing Director of The Lindsey Group.  Previously, Mr. Adams served as Under Secretary of Treasury for International Affairs.  As Under Secretary, Mr. Adams was the Administration’s point person on international financial issues, including exchange rate policy, G-7 meetings, and IMF and World Bank issues.  He regularly interacted with counterparts in key emerging markets including China, India, and Brazil and traveled extensively throughout Asia, the Middle East, and Europe.

Prior to assuming his post as Under Secretary, Mr. Adams had served as Chief of Staff to both Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill and Treasury Secretary John Snow.  He was Policy Director for the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign from November 2003 through the end of 2004 and also served as a full time member of the Bush-Cheney campaign staff in Austin in the 2000 campaign.  Mr. Adams also served in the White House under the first President Bush at the Office of Policy Development.

In 1993, Mr. Adams co-founded the G-7 Group, a Washington-based advisory firm. He later headed their Washington operation as Managing Director.

Mr. Adams holds a B.S. in Finance and a Masters in Public Administration and an M.A. in International Relations from the University of Kentucky.


Andrew D. Sacher
Andrew Sacher is Vice President at The Lindsey Group. Prior to joining The Lindsey Group, Mr. Sacher was an economist at Caxton Associates where he worked closely with the portfolio managers analyzing the U.S. economy and government policies. Prior to that, Mr. Sacher worked at the National Economic Council, where he developed internal models of the Social Security and tax systems.

Mr. Sacher graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard with a Bachelors of Science in Economics.