Steven Husted, Professor of Economics, joined the department in 1980. His primary teaching assignments have been in the area of international economics, at all levels. His current research interests focus on empirical modelling of exchange rate behavior. Early in his career at Pitt, Professor Husted served for one year as a Senior Staff Economist on the President's Council of Economic Advisers, where he specialized in trade policy issues. More recently, from 1999-2005 he served as Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research in the School of Arts and Sciences. Most recently, he has taken the position of Managing Director of EconLit, a comprehensive on-line index of journal articles, books, book reviews, collected volume articles, working papers and dissertations compiled by the American Economic Association. He is an avid golfer and has played at courses on four continents including Pinehurst #2 in North Carolina, the Old Course at St. Andrews in Scotland and Ballybunion in Ireland, where the picture above was taken. He is also addicted to crossword puzzles, especially the cryptic puzzles that appear in the Sunday Times of London. He and his wife, Marie Connolly, enjoy international travel whenever they can manage it. In 1995-96 they spent 7 months in Canberra, Australia at the Australian National University and 5 in Glasgow, Scotland at the University of Strathclyde. During the 2007-2008 academic year they will spend part of their sabbatical leaves as Visiting Fellows in the Adam Smith Research Foundation and in the Economics Department at the University of Glasgow.

Michael Melvin is Professor of Economics at Arizona State University. He also serves as the co-editor of the Journal of International Money and Finance. Dr. Melvin received his Ph.D. from UCLA and has served as a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund and the International Finance Division of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. He has been a Visiting Professor of Finance at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, the Pacific-Asian Management Institute at the University of Hawaii and the University of Frankfurt (where he was also a Fulbright Seminar Scholar). He has been a Visiting Professor of Economics at the Andersen Graduate School of Management at UCLA and the University of California at San Diego.

In 2000, Professor Melvin was named Dean's Council of 100 Distinguished Scholar, the highest award in the College of Business for scholarship accomplishments in both research and teaching.

Dr. Melvin's teaching and research interests are in the area of international finance. His current research projects involve the microstructure of the foreign exchange market and international equity markets.

Personal Page: http://www.public.asu.edu/~mmelvin