MIT World Speakers

Mark McClellan PhD '93

McClellan previously served as Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration beginning in November 2002. During 2001 and 2002, Dr. McClellan served in the White House as a Member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers and was a senior policy director for health care and related economic issues. From 1998-99, he was Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy, where he supervised economic analysis and policy development on a wide range of domestic policy issues. McClellan is on leave from Stanford University , where he was Associate Professor of Economics and Associate Professor of Medicine at Stanford Medical School. He was also a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Additionally, he was a Member of the National Cancer Policy Board of the National Academy of Sciences, Associate Editor of the Journal of Health Economics, and co-Principal Investigator of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), a longitudinal study of the health and economic well-being of older Americans. McClellan is a Member of the Institute of Medicine . He earned his M.D. from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology and his Ph.D. in Economics from MIT.