Dr. Matthew J. Slaughter is an American economist and former member of the Council of Economic Advisers. He is considered an expert in the area of globalization and his work has been supported by organizations such as the National Science Foundation and the Russell Sage Foundation. Slaughter is also a Professor of International Economics at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He is also currently a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research; a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations; an academic advisor to the McKinsey Global Institute; a member of the academic advisory boards of the International Tax Policy Forum and the Tuck Center for Private Equity; and the Senior Associate Director of the Tuck Center for International Business.
Dr. Slaughter is a well-published author, having written for several academic journals and co-authored the book Globalization and the Perceptions of American Workers. He is also known for his presentations to non-specialist audiences, earning a reputation among business journalists as an advocate of globalization. Dr. Slaughter has also consulted for various corporations, addressing the challenges of international trade, investment, and taxation.
From 2005 to 2007 he was on leave from Dartmouth while he served on the Council of Economic Advisers. Dr. Slaughter joined the Faculty of Arts & Sciences at Dartmouth in 1994 and a member of the Tuck School faculty in 2002. He is a recipient of the university's John M. Manley Huntington Teaching Award, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Dr. Slaughter received his bachelor's degree summa cum laude from University of Notre Dame in 1990, and his doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1994.