Kenneth Flamm
Robert Auerbach
Flamm, Auerbach join LBJ faculty
Two new permanent faculty members joined the LBJ School last fall--Kenneth S. Flamm, who holds the Dean Rusk Chair in International Affairs, and Robert D. Auerbach, who was appointed as a professor of public affairs.
Kenneth Flamm
An expert on international trade and the high technology
industry, Flamm teaches classes in micro-economic theory,
international trade, and defense economics.
From 1993 to 1995, he served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Economic Security and Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of Defense for Dual Use Technology Policy. He was awarded the Department's Distinguished Public Service Medal in 1995 by Defense Secretary William J. Perry.
Prior to his service at the Defense Department, Flamm spent 11 years as a senior fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at Brookings.
He has also been an adviser to the Director General of Income Policy in the Mexican Ministry of Finance and a consultant to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the World Bank, the National Academy of Sciences, the Latin American Economic System, the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and the Office of Technology Assessment of the U.S. Congress.
Flamm, who has a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been a professor of economics at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México in Mexico City, the University of Massachusetts, and George Washington University.
Robert Auerbach
Auerbach is a specialist in money and banking with extensive
experience in central bank politics and activities. He has a
Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago, where he
studied under Milton Friedman.
At the LBJ School, Auerbach teaches courses in macroeconomic policy and the Federal Reserve.
From 1976 to 1981 and from 1992 to 1998 he was an economist with the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Banking and Financial Services, serving under four committee chairmen or ranking members: Henry Reuss, Fernand St Germain, Henry B. Gonzalez, and John LaFalce. Auerbach assisted the committee in carrying out its Federal Reserve oversight functions and hearings during the tenure of four Federal Reserve chairmen: Arthur Burns, William Miller, Paul Volcker, and Alan Greenspan.
Auerbach also served as an economist in the U.S. Treasury's Office of Domestic Monetary Affairs during the Reagan administration and as a financial economist in the U.S. Federal Reserve System during the Ford administration.
Auerbach has been a professor of economics at the American University in Washington, D.C., and a professor of economics and finance at the University of California-Riverside.