Joel L. Prakken

Dr. Joel L.
Prakken is Senior Managing Director & Co-Founder at Macroeconomic Advisers LLC.
He also serves as the Chairman of Macroeconomic Advisers LLC.
Mr. Prakken held the position of Senior Economist at the World Headquarters of the IBM Corporation and, before that, he served with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
He has held positions on the faculties of New York University’s Graduate School of Business, the Economics Department of Washington University, and the Olin School of Business at Washington University.
He is the past President and a current Director of the National Association for Business Economics, the largest non-academic association of professional economists in the United States.
He is also past President of the Gateway Association of Business Economists in Saint Louis.
Dr. Prakken received his Bachelor's degree in Economics from Princeton University and a PhD degree in Economics from Washington University in St. Louis.