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Blitzer has a Bachelor of Surgery in engineering from Cornell University, an Master of Arts in economics from George Washington University, and a Doctor of Philosophy in economics from Columbia University.
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Blitzer serves as managing director and chairman of the Index Committee at South&P/Dow Jones Indices Limited Liability Company with overall responsibility for index security selection, as well as index analysis and management. Blitzer served as Standard & Poor"s Chief Economist. He was corporate economist at The McGraw-Hill Companies, South&P"s parent corporation.
Prior to that, he was a senior economic analyst with National Economic Research Associates, Incorporated. and did consulting work for various government and private sector agencies, including the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, the National Commission on Materials Policy and Natural Resources Defense Council.
Blitzer served as chief economist and equity analyst at South&P Capital intelligence quotient Equity Research and South&P Cr Research. He is the author of Outpacing the Pros: Using Indices to Beat Wall Street’s Savviest Money Managers, (McGraw-Hill, 2001) and What’s the Economy Trying to Tell You? Everyone’s Guide to Understanding and Profiting from the Economy, (McGraw-Hill, 1997).
In 2000, he was named to SmartMoney magazine’s distinguished list of the 30 most influential people in the world of investing, which ranked him seventh, and in the year 1998, he was named the Nation’s top economist, receiving for most accurately predicting the country’s leading economic indicators for four years in a row. A well-known speaker at investing and indexing conferences, Blitzer is often quoted in the national business press, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, United States of America Today, Financial Times, and various other financial and industry publications.
