Professor Paul W MacAvoy

Paul W. MacAvoy is a Thomas F. and William J. Gilbane President Fellow in the Department of Economics at Brown University. Professor MacAvoy served on President Ford's Council of Economic Advisors and on the board of directors of several corporations including Lafarge, American Cyanamid, Alumax, Combustion Engineering and the Chase Manhattan Bank Corporation. He is the author of twenty books and numerous journal articles focusing on government regulation of the structure and conduct of the...See more

Paul W. MacAvoy is a Thomas F. and William J. Gilbane President Fellow in the Department of Economics at Brown University. Professor MacAvoy served on President Ford's Council of Economic Advisors and on the board of directors of several corporations including Lafarge, American Cyanamid, Alumax, Combustion Engineering and the Chase Manhattan Bank Corporation. He is the author of twenty books and numerous journal articles focusing on government regulation of the structure and conduct of the corporation. Ira M. Millstein, Senior Partner, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, has taught corporate governance, antitrust, and government regulation at New York University, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and currently as a Visiting Professor at the Yale University School of Management. An Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, he has counseled over 50 public and philanthropic boards, including General Motors, CalPERS, Tyco, and The Nature Conservancy, and has published numerous articles on corporate governance. See less