Jeff Henley Endowed Chair in Economics
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Jeff Henley
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The Jeff Henley Endowed Chair in Economics was established
through a generous gift from Jeff and Judy Henley. Henley,
a UCSB alumus, is Chairman of Oracle Corporation, a member
of Oracle's Executive Management Committee as well as a member
of the corporation's Board of Directors.
Henley was Oracle's Chief Financial Officer and an Executive
Vice President from March 1991 to July 2004, and has been
a member of Oracle's Board of Directors since June 1995. Prior
to joining the firm, Henley served as Executive Vice President
and Chief Financial Officer at Pacific Holding Company, a
privately held company with diversified interests in manufacturing
and real estate; and as Executive Vice President and Chief
Financial Officer of Saga Corporation, a multi-billion dollar
food service company. He also served as Director of Finance
at Memorex Corporation in its large storage division and as
Controller of International Operations at Fairchild Camera
and Instrument Corporation. The purpose of the Jeff Henley
Endowed Chair is support of a faculty position in the Department
of Economics. Income from the endowment provides the Chair-holder
with funds for teaching, public service, research and/or summer
salary. Chair appointments are made to distinguished scholars
in Economics whose research applies concepts of economics
to inform public policy or decision-making in the private
sector.
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Kydland |
The current chair holder is Professor
Finn Kydland, who was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in
Economics. The prize, which he shares with Edward C. Prescott
of Arizona State University, is "for their contribution to
dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy
and the driving forces behind business cycles." Professor
Kydland joined the faculty at UCSB on July 1, 2004 and is
the director of the Laboratory
for Aggregate Economics and Finance as well as a professor
in the Department of Economics. He previously taught at Carnegie
Mellon University, where he earned his Ph.D
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