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PHILIP J. ROMERO

|3469 River Pointe Drive |Office phone: 541/346-3261 |

|Eugene, OR 97408 |Office fax: 541/346-3341 |

|Home phone: 541/349-1831 |Office e-mail (preferred): promero@.uoregon.edu |

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SUMMARY Develop and lead execution of policy/strategy to transform important institutions, including a $25B manufacturer, a major business school, a million-employee U.S. military service, and a $1 trillion nation-state. As Gov. Pete Wilson once put it, “If it’s big and complicated, we give it to Romero and he fixes it.”

Functional expertise: General management, strategy, public policy, economics, education, quality, governance.

Industry knowledge: Education, consulting, automotive, defense/aerospace, HMOs, telecom, utilities.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

University of Oregon, Lundquist College of Business (Eugene, OR) Professor, 2004- ; Dean, 1999-2004.

Professor: Teach strategy and economics. Conduct research on business policy. Hold tenured full professorship.

Dean: CEO of one of the West Coast’s top business schools, with roughly 3,000 students and 50 full-time faculty, offering undergrad, MBA, and doctoral degrees. Specializing in experiential approaches to learning, the college offers programs ranked between 1st and 15th worldwide. College performance improved significantly, by every measure.

Deanship Internal Accomplishments:

• Secured reaccreditation, with ten separate commendations.

• Increased instructional productivity by 20% and research productivity by over 30%. Five of seven departments and programs are in the top ten nationally based on scholarly impact --two are first.

• Set multiple records for student quality and numbers; current class is largest and best in our history.

• Led first vigorously executed strategic plan, emphasizing undergraduate leadership education.

• Recruited first-choice faculty amid severe shortage; created new concentrations (e.g., Operations/MIS).

• Revamped named appointments (e.g., endowed chairs) to maximize their recruiting/retention value.

• Paid off inherited deficit and ran operating surpluses, despite massive retrenchment in state support.

• Instituted first comprehensive college performance measurement system (balanced scorecard).

• Expanded very successful student “service learning” teams; client demand exceeds supply by 2:1.

• Sponsored, and raised funds for, student investment fund that beat the S&P 500 every year.

• Built largest privately funded academic facility in state ($40 M), under budget and ahead of schedule.

Deanship External Accomplishments:

• Upgraded external affairs staff, who helped me raise over $50 million, tripling annual fundraising.

• Increased college’s visibility in national media more than tenfold (to 250 hits in 2003: 6 per faculty FTE).

• Overhauled board to refresh membership, improve diversity, and increase support.

• Helped design priorities for university’s $600+ M fundraising campaign (largest in state history).

Cleveland State University, Nance School of Business, (Cleveland, OH): Dean, March-May 1999. Initiated strategic planning, reorganization, and reaccreditation. Resigned because I disagreed strongly with university leadership’s style.

Office of Governor Pete Wilson (State of California; Sacramento, CA), 1991-99: Top policy developer and operations “trouble-shooter” regarding the economy and business climate. Oversaw state agencies with budgets of $5B and 30,000+ personnel (nearly half of government) that promoted or regulated industries with $100+B in sales. My positions included:

Chief Economist, 1991 - 99

Chief Deputy Cabinet Secretary (oversaw agencies that regulate or promote business), 1995 - 99

Executive Director, Managed Health Care Improvement Task Force (bipartisan), 1997-98

Chief Deputy Director (COO) and Acting Director, Office of Planning and Research, 1991 - 95

At the Governor’s request, I marketed my initiatives in the press, in legislative testimony, and in speeches (100+ per year).

Accomplishments: Led high-stakes projects to expand investment in California, or increase the competitiveness of businesses and government, helping reverse California’s 1990-3 recession and launch its 1995-2000 boom. Each of these passed the Democratic-controlled legislature by decisive majorities.

Tax cuts (1992-97): Designed, and led legislative implementation of, billions of dollars in corporate and personal income tax cuts, including $500 M in 1993 that helped reverse California’s recession: hailed by The Economist, among others, as “the most important tax legislation since Prop. 13”.

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Dramatically cutting government costs (1992 - 93 and 1995 - 96): Led a government-wide project to identify and rescind 4,000 obsolete regulations. Initiated and ran Governor’s Quality Partnership, a successful program to introduce continuous improvement, that produced results in over 25 state departments, saving $10 M per year. Implemented strategic planning and performance budgeting. Initiated and led California Competes, the Governor’s program to improve performance by opening state monopolies to competition. The Sacramento Bee said, “the recommendations are pro-consumer… and pro-efficiency”.

Bringing competition to utility industries (1995 - 98): While overseeing the CPUC, I guided deregulation of local and wireless telephony and the breakup of telecom monopolies, that foreshadowed the 1996 federal Telecommunications Act. The Wall Street Journal described it as “a model for the rest of the country about how to open up the nation’s $200-billion-plus-a year industry to competition.”

Infrastructure Bank (1992 - 93): Designed state bond program for local governments’ infrastructure investment, which fueled over $ 10 B in economic development.

Reforming HMO regulation (1997 - 98): Ran a nationally-recognized blue ribbon task force jointly appointed by the Republican governor and Democratic legislature to overhaul state oversight of the managed health care industry. The 37-person body chaired by Alain Enthoven produced “a wide range of measures intended to protect consumers and improve care” (New York Times), despite deep ideological rivalries. The LA Times declared that “if state legislators heed the task force’s…sensible solutions…[they will produce] moderate legislation that protects consumers while preserving HMOs’ freedom from government micro-management.” The proposals were widely considered broader and more concrete than those of Pres. Clinton’s equivalent federal commission; and were implemented in landmark state legislation.

Other significant projects (1992 - 97): Other studies I conducted included the economic and budget impacts of: Federal deficit reduction (1993); NAFTA (1992-93); the Clinton health care plan (1993-94); “Three strikes and you’re out” criminal sentencing (1994); planned air pollution regulations (1994); illegal immigration (1994); and responses to disasters (1995). Each led to major legislation or executive action.

United Technologies Corporation (UTC)/Carrier ($4 B div. of $25 B manufacturer), Director, Corporate Strategy, 1990-91 (Hartford, CT) Analyst for the President (now Chairman) of UTC. Advised on the impact of competitors’ strategies, and conducted special studies at his personal request, including:

Expansion into “intelligent building” and electronic controls markets: Led a 20-person, multidivisional analysis that established a $500 million joint venture (and cancelled a planned $2-3 B acquisition).

Global, 60-country long-term market forecast to guide Carrier's international acquisitions: Results convinced UTC's board to continue investing in Carrier despite a major retrenchment, converting UTC’s worst division into its 2nd most profitable. Carrier CEO (later UTC President) "quote(d) it all the time".

RAND Corporation ($100 M think tank), Associate Economist, 1988-90; Graduate Fellow, 1983-88. (Santa Monica, CA) While a grad student at the world’s premier think tank, directed and performed policy analysis projects, directing senior researchers, all much more experienced than me. (I was one of the youngest project leaders in RAND’s history.) Topics:

- Redesigning Army doctrine for the 21st century - Soviet responses to U.S. arms control proposals

- Evaluating U.S. interventions in third-world internal conflicts - Investment options for space-based intelligence

My work helped influence the U.S. Army to change its combat doctrine. The new doctrine was first tested in Desert Storm (1991 Gulf War), with tremendous success (complete victory in a few days, with negligible friendly casualties).

My analytic models were credited with advancing the state of the art: One was the subject of three technical Master's theses.

Science Applications International Corporation ($2 B consulting firm), Policy Analyst, 1980-83. (McLean, VA) Led small teams to design a Presidential crisis decision support system, to evaluate alternative strategic aircraft, and to mitigate the impacts of a $15B missile construction program on a fragile economy and ecosystem. Increased project revenue by 300%.

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EDUCATION Ph.D. (with Distinction) in Policy Analysis, RAND Graduate School, 1988; M.A., 1985

World’s oldest and largest public policy PhD program, housed inside the premier policy research

organization (“think tank”). Concentrations in Economics and Operations Research/Applied Math.

B.A. in Economics and Government (dual majors), Cornell University, 1983.

HONORS/AWARDS Listed in Marquis’ Who's Who in America, Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in the West, and

Who’s Who in Finance and Business, 1993 –; Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, 2005--

Cornell University’s “25 Distinguished Classmates”, 2004

Oye Tu’ Leadership award, 2003; Federal Outstanding Leadership by a Latino award, 1995

BOARD Lithia Motors (Fortune 500 auto retailer; NYSE: LAD), Board of Directors, 2003-05, Chair,

MEMBERSHIPS Corp. Governance committee; Mmbr, Compensation comm. Promulgated first C.G. guidelines.

Chair, Oregon Exec. MBA board (OEMBA, run by consortium of three Oregon schools), 2001-4

Brainstorm magazine editorial board, 2002 - ; Columnist/contributing editor, 2005 -

Oregon Governor’s Council of Econ. Advisers, 2000- (Appointed by two Democratic governors.)

California Governor’s Council of Economic Policy Advisers (chaired by George Shultz), 1994-98

Bipartisan Center for Research on Policy (California legislature), founding board member, 2006-

Advisory Bds, RAND Ctr for Research on Immigration, 1994-96; Pacific Research Institute, 2003- ;

GLG hedge fund group Council of Policy Advisers, 2004 -.

California Policy Seminar (University of California research grantmaker), steering group, 1992- 99

OTHER Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 2004 –

AFFILIATIONS Senior Fellow in Business and Economic Studies, Pacific Research Institute, 2003 –

Oregon Business magazine “Best 100 Companies to Work For” judge, 2001 - Accreditation reviewer for University of Montana, 2000; So. Utah University, 2002

Economic Advisory Council to California Congressional delegation, member, 1993 - 99

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR): Member, 1994 - ; International Affairs Fellowship, 1989-90

Pacific Council on International Policy (PCIP): Founding Member; Studies Committee, 1994 –

TEACHING & Full professor at U. of Oregon: Teach courses in strategy, economics, and finance, 2004 -

CONSULTING Adjunct Professor at UCLA, USC, Pepperdine, and CSU/S schools of Public Policy, 1995 – 99 Guest lecturer at Stanford, UCLA, UC/Irvine, and UC/Berkeley Business Schools, 1994 - 99.

Guest lecturer at UCLA, UC/Berkeley, and Pepperdine Grad. Schools of Public Policy, 1994 –

Founding Principal, Forward Observer, 2004-: Consult for business-based coalitions and Gov. Schwarzenegger on economic impact of public policy decisions. (See consulting addendum to this resume).

Senior Fellow, UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research, 1998-00

Participating faculty, U of Oregon’s Planning, Public Policy, & Management dept., 2004 -. Consultant, U.S. Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, 1989 - 90

Member, Undersecretary of Defense’s Summer Study on Nuclear Strategy, 1985

Held Top Secret/SCI clearances 1981-90; last background check in 1986

CIVIC/POLITICAL Adviser to George W. Bush for President campaign on immigration policy, 1999-2000.

LEADERSHIP Principal adviser to Pete Wilson for President campaign on taxes, economy, and federal

budget, 1995. Also advised on national security and foreign policy.

Advised President Bush in 1992 campaign and Bob Dole in 1996 on economy & budget

Chairman, Business Task Force of Jack Roberts for Governor campaign (Oregon), 2001-02

Advised on economic plan of Schwarzenegger for Governor campaign (California), 2003

COMMUNITY & Raised funds for several other U. Oregon colleges & programs (e.g. Oregon Bach Festival), 2000-

INSTITUTIONAL UO Center on Diversity and Community, co-founder, 2000; design and steering group, 2000 – 02

SERVICE Tutor/mentor, Help One Student to Succeed (HOSTS) program, 1992 – 99

RAND Grad. School: President, Alumni Assn., 1988-92; member, Dean search committee, 1996-97

Founder/instructor, RAND Adopt-a-School honors program, 1986-89

Philip J. Romero

PUBLICATIONS AND MAJOR MEDIA/PUBLIC APPEARANCES

For each of the items below, I was sole or lead author unless otherwise noted.

All listed publications were reviewed by referees or editors.

Peer-reviewed reports and book chapters

Economy and International Trade

High Natural Gas Prices Need Not Cook the West’s Economy: The Case for Liquefied Natural Gas, Cal-CASE, 2005

“The Economic Impact of the Northridge Earthquake” in Seiple, Ray, ed., The Northridge Earthquake,

1994; California press, 1996 (book chapter)

“Fiscal and Economic Policy in California” (in Spanish), in Cusminsky, Rosa, ed. California: Problemas

Economica, Politicos y Sociales, Autonomous National U. of Mexico press, 1995 (book chapter)

NAFTA: Implications for California, Governor’s Office of Planning and Research (OPR), 1993

Market and Non-Market Responses to a Disruption in Oil Supplies, U.S Dept. of Energy, 1981 (co-author)

Taxation and Fiscal Policy

The End of the Housing Bubble and How to Protect Against It, OPR, 2005

The Wrong and Right Reasons to Support California Manufacturing, California Manufacturer’s and Technology

Association, 2005

The Taxpayer Roller Coaster: Why California’s Pension System Must be Changed, OPR, 2005

“Surrendering Sovereignty to Sacramento: State-Local Fiscal Relations During the 1990s”, in Dukakis, Michael

and Mitchell, Dan, eds. California Policy Options 2000, UCLA Press, 2000 (book chapter, co-author)

The Clinton Deficit Reduction Plan’s Impact on California, OPR, 1993

Keeping California Competitive: The Self-Inflicted Wounds of New Taxes, OPR, 1992

Health Policy/Economics

The High Cost of Cheap Drugs, Pacific Research Institute, 2006

Report of the California Managed Health Care Improvement Task Force, 1998 (co-author w/Alain Enthoven)

The Economic Impact of the Clinton Health Care Plan, OPR, 1994.

Other Cost/Benefit and Fiscal Analyses

The Fiscal Impact of Illegal Immigration in California, Revisited, in Bouvier, Schneider, and Romero, California in the 21st Century, forthcoming (book chapter in co-authored book)

Harnessing the Market to Discourage Sprawl: the Economic Impact of “Smart Districts”, California Building

Industry Association, 2006

Eminent Domain: Options for Reform, OPR, 2005

The Fiscal Impact of Illegal Immigration in California, OPR, 1994

“The Costs and Benefits of Reopening L.A. Freeways”, series of brief monographs published by OPR in 1994

Why Incarcerating More Criminals Will Benefit California’s Economy (“three strikes”), OPR, 1994

The Economic Impact of the FIP and the SIP (air quality plans), OPR, 1994

Management

Competitive Government: A Plan for Less Government, More Results, Governor’s Office, 1996

California Competes: A Workbook for Government Managers, Governor’s Office, 1996 (co-author)

Defense and Foreign Policy (Not included: classified reports on nuclear weapons or intelligence)

“Some Lessons from Twentieth Century Crises and Wars” in Nation, Joseph, ed.,

The De-escalation of Nuclear Crises, St. Martin's Press, 1992 (book chapter).

The Quantitative Analysis of Gangsters and Guerrillas. RAND R-4102-A, 1990.

“Modeling Insurgency”, paper presented to the Operations Research Society of America, Dec. 1989

A New Approach to the Design and Analysis of Land Defense Concepts, RAND R-3643-A, 1989

New Technologies for Tactical Intelligence, RAND R-3579, 1989 (co-author)

“Choosing NATO’s Concept of Conventional Defense”, paper presented to the

International Studies Association, November 1988

Testing the Effects of Confidence- and Security-Building Measures in a Crisis,

RAND R-3517-USDP, 1987 (co-author)

“Modeling Army Doctrine”, paper presented before the Operations Research

Society of America/The Institute of Management Sciences, July 1987

Space Systems and Army Missions, RAND R-3388-A, 1986 (co-author)

Nuclear Winter: Implications for U.S./Soviet Nuclear Strategy, RAND P-7009, 1984

Advising the President in a Crisis: Historical Lessons for Policy Planning, RAND P-7010, 1984

Future Air-Breathing Strategic Weapons Systems Analysis, USAF Systems Command, 1981 (co-author)

Op-eds (reviewed by editors, not peers; most sole-authored)

“Kick the Kicker”, Oregonian, March 2007

“Sustainability Skirmish”, Brainstorm, magazine, March 2007 (I am a regular columnist for this magazine.)

“Rebuilding the Middle Class”, Brainstorm magazine, January 2007

Minimum Wage; Maximum Damage”, Brainstorm magazine, December 2006

“Wanted: University President; Only Empty Suits Need Apply”, Brainstorm magazine, June 2006.

“Drug Price Caps a Devil’s Bargain,” Orange County Register, March 2006

“The Ghost of Christmas Future brings a Warning to Oregon Business”, Brainstorm magazine, Dec. 2005

“Mugged by Statists”, Brainstorm magazine, July 2005

“Don’t Let Opposition to LNG Cook California’s Economy”, Ventura County Star, May 2005

“Schwarzenegger Budget Pulls A Rabbit Out of the Hat”, LA Times, May 2004

“The Elephant in the Convention Center”, The Oregonian, December, 2002

“What Corporate Scandals are Teaching Business Schools”, Oregon Business, December 2002

“Governor Kulongoski’s To-Do List”, Brainstorm, December 2002, and three other articles

“Make Economy This Election’s Prime Focus”, The Oregonian, August 2002

“A Surprising Wealth in Knowledge”, The Oregonian, June 2002

“Defy Terrorism: Stay Fully Invested”, The Oregonian, September 2001

“Send The Right Signals When Replacing Joe Cox” (Oregon higher ed chancellor), The Oregonian, July 2001

“Bush’s Energy Plan May Further Split the GOP”, The Oregonian, June 2001

“Nothing But the Best Will Do,” Oregon Business, March 2001

“University of Oregon Branch is what Central Oregon Needs,” The Bend Bulletin, December 2000

“Revenge of the Slackers: Generation X Transforms America,” The Oregonian, October 2000

“Business Schools Need to Serve the ‘Underrepresented’--including Hispanics--and Business Itself”,

The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education, January 2000

“Should Oregon Voters Repeal the Gasoline-Tax Increase and New Truck-Tax System?: Yes”,

The Wall Street Journal, December 1999

“B-Schools Practice What they Teach: Competition”, Brainstorm, October 1999

“California’s Electric Restructuring Dodges a Misaimed Bullet”, California Manufacturer, Jan. 1999 (similar

articles appeared in Electricity Daily, Sept. 1998; and Orange County Business Journal, Oct. 1998)

“Make the Sick as Profitable for HMOs as the Well” (risk adjustment), San Jose Mercury News, January 1998

“Managed Care: Taking Responsibility”, Latino Journal, Summer 1997 (also in Auburn Journal, July 1997)

“Revenge of the CPAs” (dynamic scoring of tax cuts), San Francisco Chronicle, March 1994

“Cut Taxes to Boost State’s Economy”, Sacramento Bee, January 1994

“Deconstructing NAFTA and its Opposition”, San Francisco Chronicle, September 1993

“Recovery and Beyond: Reinventing California’s Economy” LA Times three-part series, August 1993

“California Can’t Afford ‘Special’ Treatment”, San Francisco Chronicle, August 1993

“Business Attraction: California’s Corporate Strategy”, Strategies, UCLA Business School, Summer 1993

Major Speeches (This is only a sampling. For the last ten years, I typically have given 50-100 speeches per year)

Endeavour Capital ($1B private equity investor) annual meeting keynote, April 2007 (long-term demographic trends)

Rubicon Society, “The State of the Economy in 2007”, Feb. 2007

Australian Foreign Ministry, “Economic Benefits of Natural Gas: The Most Eco-Friendly Fossil Fuel”, Jan. 2007

Crystal (2004), Cunard (2005) and Holland America (2006) Cruise Lines, lecturer on: globalization, economic trends,

pensions, demography, immigration, and Cold War history, in Europe, America, and Central America

Financial Executives International, “Why Oregon Needs More University Graduates: The ROI of Higher Ed”, April 2003

Arnold Bennett Hall Society, “Higher Education’s Economic Impact”, July 2002

Arlington Club, “An Historic Opportunity to Get Serious About Oregon’s Economy”, July 2002

Portland Ambassadors, (economic development and Portland’s competitive positioning), May 2002

University of Oregon Board of Trustees, “Economic Schizophrenia, U.S. vs. Oregon”, March 2002

Young Presidents’ Organization, (economy after 9/11), Nov. 2001

City Club of Eugene, (higher ed finances), Oct. 2001

Renaissance Weekend (multiple panels and plenaries each time, including role of state and local governments, presidential

politics, the media and politics, corporate scandals/governance, the global economy), 1998, 2000, 2001

Eugene/Springfield Metro Partnership, “The Four Eras of Economic Development”, Feb. 2001

Association of Oregon Industries, “The Trillion Dollar Gamble”, Sept. 2000

University of Oregon, “Revenge of the Slackers”, (commencement address) August 2000

Pacific Pension Institute, “The (Latin) American Century”, July 2000; and “Mexico’s Bailout”, 1999

Portland Rotary Club, “When Will the ‘New Economy’ Grow Old?”, March 2000

University of Oregon Board of Trustees, “How Will the Bubble Burst? – A Slow Leak”, February 2000

California Manufacturer’s Association, “I Was Wrong About Electric Restructuring”, July 1998

USC School of Public Admin., “‘Public’ Policy for Generation X” (commencement address), May 1998

Nichibei Group (Japanese executives), “Will the ‘California Comeback’ Keep Coming Back?”, May 1998

National Health Policy Forum, “Why California Holds the Future of the HMO Industry”, February 1998

National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners’ annual meeting, June 1997 (utility policy)

California Chamber of Commerce, April 1997 (managed care), and four other appearances

American Legislative Exchange Council, August 1996 (utility deregulation) and Aug. 1993 (NAFTA)

Silicon Valley CEO Forum, March 1996 (state economic policy’s effect on business)

American Electronics Association, February 1996 (electronics market trends) and April 1994 (tax)

RAND Graduate School commencement address, June 1995 (public policy education)

National Association of Manufacturers, March 1995 (national economic policy)

Federal Reserve Board, December 1994 (the economy in the 1994 election)

Harvard Kennedy School/UC Berkeley National Forum on Immigration, October 1994

Brookings Institution, February 1994 (immigration policy)

Heritage Foundation, January 1994 (California economy and budget)

Published full-length interviews

Oye Tu! (Latino publication), January 2003 (biographical profile)

Oregon Business, Cover story, August 2002 (Economic development)

Business Week Online, January 2001 (Business education)

Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education, January 2000 (biographical profile)

Spidell’s Tax Newsletter, 1995 (California tax policy)

California Strategies, Spring 1994 (California economic policy and business attraction strategy)

Examen (magazine of Mexico’s then-ruling PRI party), Summer 1994 (immigration)

Significant Media Appearances (only includes quotes in major stories in national or international media)

Bloomberg, Sept., July, and May 2004 (economy); January 2003 (North Korea and Iraq); and three other appearances

PBS, Mar. 2004 (higher ed); Nov. 2003 (tax reform); June 2003 (competition for Boeing 7E7 production)

Wall Street Journal, Oct. 2003 (energy deregulation)

LA Times, Sept. 2003 (California economy); January 2003 (California budget); May 2001 (Bush’s national energy policy)

Associated Press, March 2003 (Iraq war); August 2002 (MBAs, economic summits)

NPR “Talk of the Nation”, November 2002 (economy); Sept. 1994 (immigration)

Investor’s Business Daily, August 2002 (business scandals); Feb. 2000 (economy)

USA Today, August 2002 (business execs in Bush Cabinet)

Chronicle of Higher Education, June 2002 (business school buildings)

United Press International, June 2002 (graduate programs)

NPR “Forum”, Mar. 2002 (energy policy); Aug. 1993 (NAFTA debate w/Ralph Nader); three other appearances

Kiplinger’s, November 2001 (economy)

Entrepreneur, August 2001 (s)

Business Week, cover story April 2001 (California’s future)

New York Times, March 2001 (California’s electric system); February 2001 (deregulation)

Newsday, Dec. 2000 (economy)

PBS News Hour with Jim Lehrer, May 2000 (economy)

Brainstorm, cover story, April 2000 (s); May, 2003 (intellectual diversity in universities)

Wall Street Journal, Dec. 1999 (high-tech); Dec. 1997 (health care); July 1995 (utility deregulation); July 1993 (NAFTA)

New York Times, December, 1999 (business incubators); Dec.1998 (California budget); Jan. 1998 (health care)

PBS Nightly Business Report, September 1996 (immigration)

PBS “Express”, January 1996 (economic impact of floods in CA and Midwest), and two other appearances

NPR “Which Way, LA?” April 1994 (rebuilding from LA quake), and two other appearances

All TV networks, January 1994 (economic impact of LA quake)

BBC, December 1993 (European monetary union)

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Philip J. Romero, Professor and former Dean

Philip J. Romero has been a Professor of Business Administration at the University of Oregon’s Lundquist College of Business since the summer of 1999, where he holds the Miller chair. He teaches courses combining economics and corporate strategy. From 1999-2004 he served as dean. The college is one of the two highest ranked business schools in the U.S. Northwest, with component programs (e.g. entrepreneurship, sports business) ranked as high as first in the world. During his tenure as dean the college broke records for student and faculty quality, research and teaching productivity, media visibility, and funds raised ($50+ million in four years). He developed and oversaw construction of the largest privately-funded academic building in state history.

Romero's background combines think-tank economics, corporate strategy, and high-level public policy. After working for most of the 1980s as a research economist and defense policy specialist at California's RAND Corporation, in 1990 he was named director of strategic planning for United Technologies Corp. (UTC). While serving in that job, Romero advised the UTC chairman, George David, on new market opportunities, acquisitions, and divestitures. He played a small role in UTC's turnaround in the early 1990's, helping convert its worst performing division into its second most profitable.

In 1991 Romero was tapped by newly-elected Gov. Pete Wilson to become California's chief economist. He served as troubleshooter on business and economic operations for Gov. Wilson until 1999, when term limits caused him to leave office. Romero was the author and lead implementer of key improvements in California’s business climate. These reforms transformed California’s recession-plagued economy in the mid-1990s: the state went from last in the nation in job growth to nearly twice the national average—from losing 1,000 jobs per day to gaining 1,000.

During his tenure in California’s Governor’s office, Romero served as acting director of the state Office of Planning and Research (OPR), the Governor's think tank. He transformed OPR from a moribund backwater into a powerful source of policy ideas and analysis. He also served as Wilson's national security adviser. As Chief Deputy Cabinet Secretary, he oversaw all state agencies that regulated or promoted business ($5B budget and 40,000+ employees). He was Executive Director of the California Managed Health Care Improvement Task Force, which designed an overhaul of state regulation of the HMO industry. Gov. Wilson summarized his role: “If it’s big and complicated, we give it to Romero and he fixes it.”

Romero has emphasized business and government collaboration by integrating business strategies into public policy. For example, he led the design of California's efforts to open telecommunications and utility monopolies to competition. Likewise, he improved public sector performance by opening government monopolies to competition, saving taxpayers more than $10 million per year. He remains active in public policy through fellowships with the Hoover Institution and the Pacific Research Institute, through consulting to California businesses and governor’s office, and by publishing frequent opinion articles in major periodicals. From 2002 -2005 he served as a director (and chair of the corporate governance committee) of Lithia Motors (NYSE: LAD), a Fortune 500 auto retailer, where he promulgated the firm’s first corporate governance standards. Romero also serves on several private sector advisory boards, including the GLG hedge fund group.

Dr. Romero earned a Ph.D. (1988) and M.A. (1985) in Policy Analysis (mixture of economics and applied mathematics) with Distinction from the RAND Graduate School, and a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Cornell University (1983). He has published numerous research papers on a range of strategy and policy topics, including nuclear arms control, conventional forces, command and control, selecting Presidential advisers, business regulation, tax policy, international trade, international economic growth, health reform, the Federal budget, and crisis management. He is co-author of five books: The De-Escalation of Nuclear Crises, California: Problemos Economicos, Sociales, y Politicos; The Northridge Earthquake, 1994; California Policy Options 2000, and California in the 21st Century.. He has taught graduate or undergraduate courses at UCLA, USC, Pepperdine, the U. of Oregon, and in the California State University system.

Philip Romero’s public policy interests include international security, economic policy and government budgets, how governments compete for business investment and retention, on government’s role in creating conditions that nurture durable market advantage for resident businesses, and on introducing competitive forces into the delivery of public services. He has consulted on strategy issues to scores of major companies, as well as the California and Oregon governor’s offices.

Dr. Romero is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a recipient of its Ford Foundation Economics International Affairs Fellowship. He has also been a member of two states’ Governor’s Councils of Economic Advisers (appointed by governors of both parties), and a founding member of the Pacific Council on International Policy. In addition, he is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, a Senior Fellow in Business and Economic Studies at the Pacific Research Institute, and on the governing board of the California Legislature’s Bipartisan center for Research on Policy.

A prolific author of newspaper opinion articles, his work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Sacramento Bee, Portland Oregonian, and many other dailies. He has been interviewed by virtually every major news outlet, including the Investor’s Business Daily, the New York Times, the Economist, Business Week, Wall Street Journal, Associated Press and United Press International, as well as major television and radio networks including the BBC, PBS, CNBC, NPR, and Bloomberg. He also serves as a columnist and member of Brainstorm magazine’s editorial board (the Northwest’s premier public affairs/business magazine). An experienced public speaker, he made 100 speeches per year from 1992-2004 (mostly on public policy for the economy and businesses.)

Married to Lita Flores since 1984, he is listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in Finance and Business, Who’s Who in the West, Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, and is the recipient of several Latino leadership awards. He enjoys designing and playing historical simulation games. 3/06

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