People
The expertise of CONSAD's outstanding team of analysts include micro- and macro-economics, business administration and planning, industry analysis, market research, engineering economics, behavioral science, simulation and optimization modeling, mathematics and statistics, and a wide range of computer applications. In this age of specialization, CONSAD has effectively woven together these diverse disciplines to successfully address a broad range of complex issues, to design innovative and intelligent methods for examining ideas, policies, and programs, and to develop effective strategies and plans for meeting client objectives.
Wilbur Steger, President
Wilbur A. Steger is President, Chairman of the Board, and founder of CONSAD. ResearchCorporation,an independent think-tank that he launched in 1963, building on the intellectual foundation of his first employer, the prestigious RAND Corporation.
He has been an advisor to Task Forces on personal and corporate income tax, health care reform, regulatory reform, environmental and energy issues, health and safety issues, technology assessment, substance abuse, and other critical public policy matters. He has performed policy analysis and personally advised the White House staffs (and often the Presidents) since Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, the latter two on corporate and personal income tax policy, and Presidents Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan and Bush on regional economic development, environmental, energy, health and safety policy issues, regulatory reform, technology impact assessment and workplace substance abuse policy.
On all matters, Dr. Steger does not, nor does CONSAD, take a policy stand, being satisfied to draw out the economic impact fallout of any given public policy.
Dr. Steger has published more than one hundred research papers, monographs, reports, and books. He was a teaching fellow at Harvard from 1952 through 1955, an Adjunct Professor at the University of Pittsburgh from 1963 through 1973, and is currently an Adjunct Professor of Policy Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University (since 1985), and at the University of Pittsburgh, School of Public Health.
Education
Ph.D., Economics, Harvard University
M.S., Economics, Harvard University
B.S., Economics, Yale University
Frederick Rueter, Vice President
Dr. Rueter is a Vice President of CONSAD and is primarily responsible for CONSAD's microeconomic and inter-industry analysis, statistical and econometric analysis, simulation modeling, and policy design studies. Since joining CONSAD in 1973, Dr. Rueter has been involved, substantively and administratively, in a wide variety of research efforts. The topics analyzed and research methods applied have included: benefit-cost, cost-effectiveness, and regulatory impact analyses of federal labor standards and policies, environmental and occupational health and safety regulation, health insurance and health care policies, and technological research and innovation programs and policies; economic impact analyses of behavioral consequences of tax policies such as the federal estate and gift tax, capital gains taxation, carbon and energy taxes and related permit trading programs, and business tax incentives for investment, research and development, energy development, and pollution control; multivariate statistical analyses and quantitative risk assessments of environmental, industrial, and public health risks; risk communication; computer simulation modeling of national donor liver allocation policy, responses to bioterrorist attacks, and Air Force manpower and personnel, and training policies, procedures, and practices.
Dr. Rueter is also an Adjunct Professor of Economics at Carnegie Mellon University continuously since 1988, where he teaches courses in the economics of natural resources, the economics of the environment, and benefit-cost analysis.
Education
Ph.D., Economics, Carnegie Mellon University, 1973
M.S., Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon University, 1966
Alan Bernstein, General Manager
Mr. Bernstein is General Manager of CONSAD. In this capacity, he is responsible for ensuring that all project assignments are responsive to client needs and expectations and are performed in a timely, cost-effective fashion. Mr. Bernstein is also responsible for overseeing all financial and contractual matters for CONSAD. Mr. Bernstein has 35 years of experience as a regulatory impact policy analyst, including over 20 years of project and managerial responsibility for providing rule-making support services to federal government agencies (primarily within the Department of Labor) and for performing regulatory and economic impact analyses of federal government regulations, particularly occupational safety and health standards. Mr. Bernstein's areas of expertise include assessment of regulatory requirements, benefit estimation, compliance costing, and the assessment of economic impacts, with an emphasis on the impacts on small businesses. Since joining CONSAD in 1973, other areas of research that Mr. Bernstein has been involved include: economic impact analysis and evaluation of environmental/ energy policies and/or legislation; health care reform proposals and other health care delivery-related issues; and workplace substance abuse research and evaluation.
Education
M.S., Industrial Administration, Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon University, 1973
B.S., Administration and Management Science, Carnegie Mellon University, 1973