Allen Sinai is Chief Global Economist, Strategist, and President of Decision Economics, Inc. (DE), a global economics and financial markets information support and advisory firm, responsible for the firm’s research, forecasts, and strategy advice. Founded in 1996, DE is located in New York, Boston and London, and serves well over 300 financial institutions, corporations, governments and individuals worldwide.
Allen often speaks on international and domestic economic issues. He has given hundreds of speeches and presentations to various groups and decision makers, ranging from individual investors to corporate executives, boards, and other decision makers. He has lectured and spoken in Japan, Korea, other areas in the Asia-Pacific, in China, the U.K., Scandinavia, Europe, Mexico and Latin America, and throughout the United States. Time Magazine has said of him, “Anyone who thinks economics is a dismal science has never been treated to the vivid commentaries of Allen Sinai.”
For well over three decades, Dr. Sinai has served a wide variety of organizations and decision makers in the United States and abroad as an analyst, forecaster, educator and economic policy, strategy, and financial markets adviser. He has a long history of combining pure academic research, model building and applied forecasting, investment and business experience in providing information support and advice to all kinds of senior level decision makers. He has been consulted by various Administrations from both political parties on key economic and policy issues, has often testified before Congress, and meets regularly with senior level policymakers from many countries. He is known for his objective fact-based analyses and forecasts, which for nearly 35 years have proved to be quite accurate, especially on the economy and financial markets and on “big wave” economic, political, and societal fundamental trends that move markets and business. Sinai has won a number of forecasting awards, including Top Forecaster—Wall Street Journal Survey in 2006, the USA Today Survey Top Forecaster in 2005 and 2003, Top Guru in the Business Week Survey of 1997, and first three times in MarketWatch’s High-Frequency Indicator Survey, eight times Runnerup.
Between 1983 and 1996, Sinai was Chief Global Economist, a Managing Director, and the Director of Lehman Brothers Global Economics at Lehman Brothers, Inc.. He joined Lehman in 1983 and established the Lehman Economics Department. From 1988 to 1992, he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Economist of The Boston Company, an asset management and banking subsidiary of Shearson Lehman Brothers, where he also headed a small economic information company, The Boston Company Economic Advisors, Inc..
Dr. Sinai has held a number of teaching and research positions at leading universities. He has been a Lecturer and Adjunct Professor of Economics and Finance in the Lemberg Program of International Economics and Finance at Brandeis University. He taught in the Sloan School of Management at MIT. He also taught at New York University, Boston University, and the University of Illinois (Chicago), where he was a tenured professor
Dr. Sinai has frequently been in the news media and over many years has appeared on numerous national television programs such as CNBC’s Street Sight, Power Lunch, Squawk Box, Bloomberg’s On The Economy, World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, Good Morning America, Moneyline, Nightline, the Today Show, CBS Morning News, ABC Nightly News, Today’s Business, Ahead of the Curve, This Week With David Brinkley, Face the Nation, and Wall Street Week. He has been a member of the Time Magazine Board of Economists. In 1992, Dr. Sinai was selected as one of the ten "Smartest People" in Boston by Boston Magazine.
Allen Sinai holds a Bachelor's Degree in Economics from the University of Michigan (1961) and a Doctorate in Economics from Northwestern University (1969). |