- H.W. Brock, PhD
President
Horace "Woody" Brock, Ph.D.
Holder of five academic degrees, Dr. Horace "Woody" Brock earned his B.A., M.B.A., and M.S. from Harvard University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University (mathematical economics and political philosophy). He was elected an Andrew Mellon Foundation Bicentennial Fellow in 1976. Dr. Brock studied under Kenneth J. Arrow, Professor of Economics, and John C. Harsanyi, Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, both winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics.
Dr. Brock founded SED in 1985, and in doing so was sponsored by Fidelity, GE Capital, IBM Pension Fund, and twenty other institutions looking for a much deeper level of analysis of interest rates and the economy. In addition to authoring SED's periodic publications and numerous publications in professional journals, Dr. Brock has authored a series of Op-Ed pieces in the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune. His speaking engagements have included audiences as diverse as the World Economic Forum in Davos, Board of Directors of corporations and banks, corporate officers, high net worth families, private equity groups, and hedge funds. Dr. Brock also authored Interest Rate Insight, the first Expert-System developed for financial markets.