CONSAD's outstanding team of professionals has experience in micro- and macroeconomics, strategic planning, market research, behavioral science, mathematics, statistics, econometrics, and computer applications. This teamwork of talented individuals with diverse disciplines successfully addresses a broad range of complex issues and develops effective strategies and plans for meeting client objectives.
Wilbur Steger, President
Wilbur A. Steger is President, Chairman of the Board, and founder of CONSAD Research Corporation, an independent think-tank that he launched in 1963, building on the intellectual foundation of his first employer, the prestigious RAND Corporation.
He has been an advisor to Task Forces on personal and corporate income tax, health care reform, regulatory reform, environmental and energy issues, health and safety issues, technology assessment, substance abuse, and other critical public policy matters. He has performed policy analysis and personally advised the White House staffs (and often the Presidents) since Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, the latter two on corporate and personal income tax policy, and Presidents Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan and Bush on regional economic development, environmental, energy, health and safety policy issues, regulatory reform, technology impact assessment and workplace substance abuse policy.
On all matters, Dr. Steger does not, nor does CONSAD, take a policy stand, being satisfied to draw out the economic impact fallout of any given public policy.
Dr. Steger received his B.S. in economics from Yale University and his M.S. and Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University. He was a teaching fellow at Harvard from 1952 through 1955, an Adjunct Professor at the University of Pittsburgh from 1963 through 1973, and is currently an Adjunct Professor of Policy Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University (since 1985), and at the University of Pittsburgh, School of Public Health.
Dr. Steger has published more than one hundred research papers, monographs, reports, and books.
Frederick Rueter, Vice President, Project Director, and Senior Economist
Dr. Rueter is Vice President of CONSAD Research Corporation and is primarily responsible for designing and overseeing CONSAD's all of CONSAD's economic analyses and policy design studies. He also is an Adjunct Professor of Economics at Carnegie Mellon University, where he teaches a class in Environmental Economics each year. Since joining CONSAD in 1973, Dr. Rueter has been involved, substantively and administratively, in a wide variety of research efforts. His current research includes the study of proposed alternative changes to the Family and Medical Leave Act and the evaluation of ESA's Wage and Hour Division to increase compliance among previously investigated employers.
Education
Ph.D., Economics, Carnegie Mellon University, 1973
M.S., Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon University, 1966
B.S., Industrial Management, Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1965
Alan Bernstein, General Manager and Senior Analyst
Mr. Bernstein is General Manager of CONSAD. In this capacity, he is responsible for ensuring that all project assignments are responsive to client needs and expectations and are performed in a timely, cost-effective fashion. Since joining CONSAD in 1973, Mr. Bernstein's project and managerial responsibilities have been primarily in the following areas: regulatory and economic impact analysis of occupational safety and health standards; economic impact analysis and evaluation of environmental/energy policies and/or legislation; health care reform proposals and other health care delivery-related issues; and workplace substance abuse research and evaluation.
Education
M.S., Industrial Administration, Graduate School of Industrial
Administration, Carnegie Mellon University, 1973.
B.S., Administration and Management Science, Carnegie Mellon
University, 1973.
Chris Shefler, Analyst and IT Director
Mr. Shefler joined CONSAD in 1995 in an administrative support capacity. He became the de facto IT Manager in 2000 when he took over maintenance and administration of the company's computing and networking hardware and software. He joined the professional staff as a Junior Analyst in 2004. In 2007, he was promoted to an Analyst. His project responsibilities have included analyzing technical issues, working with databases, and computer programming.
Mr. Shefler is proficient with the Java, C, and SQL programming languages, statistical software packages such as SPSS and MS Excel, and databases such as MS Access and MySQL.
Education
B.S., Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh, April 2007