Alan B. Krueger is the Bendheim Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. He received a bachelor’s degree with honors from Cornell University and an A.M. degree and Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. Krueger currently serves as Chairman of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers and is a member of the President’s Cabinet. He previously served as Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy and Chief Economist of the U.S. Department of the Treasury (2009-10), and as Chief Economist of the U.S. Department of Labor (1994-95). He has been a member of the Executive Committee of the American Economic Association (2005-07) and was Chief Economist for the Council for Economic Education (2003-09). While at the Council for Economic Education, Alan helped to draft the Voluntary National Content Standards in Economics, serving as Co-Chair of the committee. He was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and of the Econometric Society. He was a columnist for the New York Times. Among his many scholarly publications are What Makes a Terrorist: Economics and the Roots of Terrorism and Education Matters: A Selection of Essays on Education. When not in Washington, D.C., Alan lives in Princeton, NJ, with his wife, Lisa, a high school math teacher. They have two grown children.

David Anderson was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1943 and raised there. At age seventeen, he showed his photographic work to Alfred Einsenstaedt at Life Magazine, who encouraged him to begin his photographic career at the New York Daily News, which he did. After serving the U.S. Army as a cameraman, including duty in Vietnam, from 1969 to 1983 he was a cinematographer based in New York City who specialized in commercials and documentaries. He also photographed two independent films directed by artist Nancy Graves, including Isy Boukir (1971), which was purchased for the collection of films at the Museum of Modern Art. Since 1983 he has worked as an architectural photographer and is represented by the Yancey Richardson Gallery, of New York City. His photographs are in numerous public and corporate collections, including American Airlines, AT&T, the Brooklyn Museum, the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, Citicorp, Deutsche Bank, Equitable Life Assurance Society, the Museum of the City of New York, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, among others. After living in New York City for fifty years, Mr. Anderson moved in 2010 to the Hudson River valley of New York.