Brian William Sloboda
Brian W. Sloboda is an economist at the U.S. Department of Labor and a faculty member at the University of Maryland, Global Campus, where he teaches economics and finance. He also teaches at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C. His research focuses on regional economics, economic growth, and labor economics, with avocational research interests in finance and presidential election forecasting models. He serves as a committee member of the Federal Forecasters Consortium (FFC), a board member of the Pennsylvania Economics Association, and a member of the editorial board of the Pennsylvania Economic Review. Dr. Sloboda is the former president of the Society of Government Economists (SGE) and is now its executive director. He is currently an assistant editor for the Journal of Economics and a senior social science editor for the European Scientific Journal. Additionally, he serves as a book review editor for the Review of Regional Studies.