Tapan Munroe, PhD

As a director and consultant with LECG, LLC, Tapan has worked with several California banks on issues relating to economic, and business planning. He is a member of the Advisory Board of City National Bank in San Francisco; a member-investor with Keiretsu Forum, the US’s largest business angel investment organization; a former trustee and member of the Investment Committee for the University of California Merced Foundation; emeritus member of the board of Directors of the Center for Pacific Rim Studies at the University of San Francisco; and a member of the University of California President’s Board on Science and Innovation.

He is also a former president of the National Association of Business Economists (Bay Area Chapter), a former member of the National Petroleum Council Task Force on Oil Prices, former quarterly chairman of the Commonwealth Club of California, and the former chairman of the Economics Committee for Edison Electric Institute, Washington, D.C.

Tapan holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Colorado and is also a graduate of the University of Chicago Executive Training Program; he’s a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University and the University of Augsburg in Germany; an adjunct professor at the University of California, Berkeley; and was a professor and chairman for the Department of Economics at the University of the Pacific in Stockton in 1980-89. He is currently a visiting faculty at the La Salle University in Barcelona.

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