Dr. Tapan Munroe Profile


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Name:	Dr. Tapan Munroe
Company:	LECG, LLC. Director
Title:	& Former Chief Economist for the Pacific Gas & Electric Company
Profile:	Tapan Munroe is a recognized author, speaker, consultant and advisor in economics. His expertise includes regional economics, environmental economics, and high-tech industry analysis. Currently his research and writings focus on the Silicon Valley and Bay Area economies and the economics of innovation. He is a Member of the Advisory Board of City National Bank in San Francisco, a Member-Investor with Keiretsu Forum, the nation’s largest business angel investment organization, Emeritus Member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Pacific Rim Studies at the University of San Francisco and a Member of the University of California President’s Board on Science and Innovation. He has also served as a trustee of the UC Merced Foundation. He has been a director of LECG, LLC, a worldwide consulting firm .Currently he is an affiliate of the firm. He has served as the Chief Economist for Pacific, Gas, and Electric Company for more than a decade. Tapan is also a former President of the National Association of Business Economists, Bay Area Chapter, a former member of the National Petroleum Council Task Force on Oil Prices, former Quarterly Chair for the Commonwealth Club of California and the former Chair of the Economics Committee for Edison Electric in Washington, D.C. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Colorado where he was awarded a fellowship and membership in Phi Kappa Phi, and Omicron Delta Epsilon. He is also a graduate of the University of Chicago Executive Training Program, a Visiting Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University and the University of Augsburg in West Germany, an Adjunct Professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a Professor and Chair for the Department of Economics at the University of the Pacific in Stockton. In 1998-1999, he was the holder of the Kiriyama Distinguished Professorship for Asia Pacific Studies at the University of San Francisco. Tapan has authored “Dot-com to Dot-bomb – Understanding the Dot-Com Boom, Bust and Resurgence”. His latest book is entitled “What Makes Silicon Valley Tick?” published by Nova Vista Publications in May 2009. He has been a columnist on economic issues for the San Francisco Examiner and the Journal of Corporate Renewal. He is currently a columnist for several MediaNews papers including the Oakland Tribune, and the Contra Costa Times. He is a commentator on both regional and national radio and TV news programs including KRON TV (channel 4), KGO TV (Channel 7), CNBC in Los Angeles and New York, the Dow Jones Investors Network and the Bloomberg News Service.