Marc Miles, PhD

Marc Miles, PhD

Economist, Global Economics Solutions

Marc A. Miles has researched and written about global markets for more than 30 years. Prior to becoming a global strategy consultant, founding Global Economic Solutions in Boston, he was the director of the Center for International Trade and Economics at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., and editor of the annual Heritage Foundation/Wall Street Journal Index of Economic Freedom. In that capacity he traveled widely throughout the United States, Eastern and Western Europe, South and Central America, and Hong Kong working with government officials, business people, think tanks, and students.

Dr. Miles began his career at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, followed by a research and teaching career as a tenured professor at Rutgers University. During that time he wrote numerous scholarly articles and three books, including International Economics in an Integrated World (with Arthur B. Laffer; Scott, Foresman, 1982) and Beyond Monetarism: Finding the Road to Stable Money (Basic Books, 1984). After leaving the academic world, he was an adviser to institutional investors at several investment research and forecasting firms, focusing on pending investment trend shifts in both equities and fixed income.

Dr. Miles’ articles on the globalization of financial and commercial markets have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Boston Globe. He holds B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago and a M.Sc. degree from the London School of Economics.