About Tapan Munroe

Tapan Munroe is well known in California and the U.S. for his economic and policy analysis consulting and advisory work. He is a Director of LECG, a worldwide consulting firm, and the Consulting Chief Economist for the Capital Corp of the West. Previously, Dr. Munroe served for more than a decade as the Chief Economist for the Pacific Gas & Electric Company.

He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Colorado. He is also a graduate of the Executive Training Program of the University of Chicago. Dr. Munroe has been a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Augsburg in West Germany, and Stanford University. He has also taught at the University of the Pacific in Stockton and at the University of California, Berkeley. He held the Kiriyama Distinguished Professorship for Asia Pacific Studies at the University of San Francisco for 1998-99. He has also been a Senior Fellow of the Great Valley Center in Modesto.

Tapan Munroe has served as the President of the National Association of Business Economists (Bay Area chapter), a member of the National Petroleum Council Task Force on Oil Prices, and the quarterly Chair of the Commonwealth Club of California. Dr. Munroe is on the Board of Trustees of the University of California at Merced. He has been a Director of County Bank, Merced.

As a widely published author and a nationally known speaker, he has been a frequent commentator on regional and national radio and TV news programs. He has been a columnist on economic issues for the San Francisco Examiner and is currently a columnist for the Contra Costa Times (a Knight Ridder newspaper). His recent books include Public Power in California (Xlibris, 2003) and Dot- Com to Dot-Bomb – Understanding the Dot-Com Boom, Bust and Resurgence (Moraga Press, 2004).