Alex
J. Pollock is a Senior Fellow of the Mises Institute
and the author of Finance and Philosophy:
Why We're Always Surprised (Paul Dry Books) and Boom and Bust: Financial Cycles and Human Prosperity. He was
Principal Deputy Director of the Office of Financial Research, U.S. Treasury,
from November 2019 to February 2021, and has been a fellow of the R Street
Institute and the American Enterprise Institute, president and CEO of the
Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago, and a director of CME Group, Ascendium
Education Group, and the Great Books Foundation. Pollock's work includes the study
of financial systems and their recurring crises; the politics of finance, risk,
and uncertainty; central banking; and housing finance. He is a graduate of
Williams College, the University of Chicago, and Princeton University, and he
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Howard B. Adler is an attorney and
former government official. From May 2019 through January 2021, he served as
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for the Financial Stability
Oversight Council, where he was responsible for monitoring the financial
stability of the United States during the first year of the Covid-19 crisis. He
was awarded the Treasury's Distinguished Service Award for his efforts by the
Secretary of the Treasury. Mr. Adler was a partner for over thirty years in the
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP law firm, where he served as co-head of both
the firm's Corporate Transactional Practice Group and REIT Practice Group.
Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, he served as Executive Vice President and General
Counsel of The Riggs National Bank of Washington, D.C. Mr. Adler has also
served as the Treasurer of the Washington, D.C. Bar and on the Board of
Governing Trustees of American Ballet Theatre. He is a graduate of Johns Hopkins
University and New York University School of Law, and he lives in the
Washington, D.C. area.