Steve Gibson

Although his parents wanted him to be a Navy SEAL, Steve Gibson is Executive Director of The Bionomics Institute. In addition to managing the business affairs of the Institute and writing/editing many of its "Daily Doses" of Bionomics, he has written on Information Age topics for publications including Reason and Educom Review, and wrote a chapter in the Cato Institute book, The Last Monopoly: Privatizing the Postal Service for the Information. More recently, he was featured in HotWired's "Brain Tennis" and the forthcoming Rana #3 Forum. He joined the Institute in October, 1993 as a policy analyst.

Prior to coming to California, Mr. Gibson analyzed insurance companies and banks as part of the pension fund consulting done by the Wyatt Company in Portland, Oregon. Previously, he was an assistant vice president at J.& W. Seligman in New York, valuing closely-held businesses and other securities; the Associate Economist at the investment bank Bear Stearns; and a research assistant at Townsend-Greenspan Inc., where he worked with current Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan.

Mr. Gibson received his A.B. in economics from Princeton University in 1986 and is a Chartered Financial Analyst. He is Treasurer of the Marin (County) United Taxpayer's Association and former President of the Portland chapter of the National Association of Business Economists. He has served as an Associate of the Cascade Policy Institute.

June, 1997