President Barack Obama announced his intention on Wednesday to nominate Justice Department official Carl Shapiro for the Council of Economic Advisors.
Carl Shapiro (University of California at Berkeley)
Since 2009, Shapiro has served as the Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economics in the Antitrust Division at DOJ. He previously held the position during the Clinton administration from 1995 to1996.
Before joining DOJ, he consulted for various private clients as well as DOJ and the Federal Trade Commission, mostly in the area of antitrust economics.
He currently is on leave from the University of California at Berkeley, where he is the Transamerica Professor of Business Strategy at the Haas School of Business and Professor of Economics in the Economics Department.
