Irwin Stelzer - Professional Career

Professional Career

Stelzer founder and president of National Economic Research Associates, Inc. (NERA) from 1961 to 1983. NERA became NERA Economic Consulting and was sold to Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. (MMC). Stelzer has served as a managing director of the investment banking firm of Rothschild Asset Management Inc. (USA) part of N M Rothschild & Sons. He also has served as a director of the Energy and Environmental Policy Center at Harvard University. He is a signatory of the Henry Jackson Society, a senior director and fellow of the Hudson Institute and has edited and introduced a book on neoconservatism. He is a visiting fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford. Prior to joining the Hudson Institute in 1998, Dr. Stelzer was resident scholar and director of regulatory policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. Stelzer received his bachelor and master-of-arts degrees from New York University and his doctorate in economics from Cornell University. He started out by delivering flowers for "25 cents a shot"