Dr. Roger Brinner is a distinguished economist and articulate analyst of the U.S. and global economies. He has served as counsel to CEOs of public and private corporations, senior partners of private equity firms, and top state and federal governmental officials. In addition to macro- and micro-economics, Roger is an expert in equity market valuations, business pricing strategies, and market growth drivers and forecasting.

Roger received his PhD in Economics at Harvard University. Early in his professional career, Dr. Brinner was the Senior Staff Economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisors. He then went on to lead Data Resources, Inc (DRI) which was considered the premier econometric modeling  and data provision  firm. The firm was sold to McGraw-Hill, and became part of the Standard and Poors business division, with Roger serving for over a decade as Executive Director and Chief Economist of S&P/DRI.  Then, in 1998, Roger joined The Parthenon Group as a partner and Chief Economist.

At other early and later times in his career, he served as an economics professor at Harvard and Visiting Professor at M.I.T.  and was appointed a Visiting Fellow at the Boston Federal Reserve. Various congressional committees have sought his testimony on budget, inflation, taxation and growth policies.