Brock Blomberg
| Brock Blomberg | |
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| 17th President of Ursinus College | |
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Assumed office 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Bobby Fong |
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March 21, 1967 El Paso, Texas |
| Alma mater |
University of Tampa (BA) Johns Hopkins (MA and Ph.D) |
| Website | Ursinus College President's Office |
S. Brock Blomberg (born March 21, 1967) is the 17th president of Ursinus College. A macroeconomist and former Professor of economics at Claremont McKenna College, Blomberg is best known in academia for his work on the economics of terrorism.
Blomberg was born in El Paso, Texas, the son of an Army officer who spent much of his early years moving from place to place. He graduated from The University of Tampa magna cum laude in 1989 with a Bachelor of Arts in economics. He spent the next several years working on his Doctor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. He worked as an intern economist for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in 1992, foreshadowing his later position as a staff economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Blomberg was on the economics faculty of Wellesley College from 1995 to 2003. In fall 2003, he joined the economics department at Claremont McKenna, where he received the David Huntoon Senior Teaching Award. He became the Dean of the Robert Day School of Economics and Finance at Claremont McKenna in June 2010.
He has held appointments on the President's Council of Economic Advisors, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. He also served in the United States Military for eight years and been the United States representative to the Economic Committee for Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). He was an investigator for the Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE) at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy .
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