Release Date: Friday, September 14, 2001

TERRY COLLEGE OF BUSINESS TO HOST SPEECHES IN ATLANTA AND ATHENS BY FORMER REAGAN BUDGET DIRECTOR AND FTC CHAIRMAN

ATHENS, Ga. — Economic adviser James C. Miller III, a former budget director to President Ronald Reagan, who also served as chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, will deliver two speeches next week for the University of Georgia's Terry College of Business, his alma mater.

On Wednesday, September 19, the Conyers, Ga., native will present the university's David McCord Wright Lecture, sponsored by the Economics Department, at 3:30 pm in the Law School Auditorium. Miller is a former student of Wright's, who was an economics professor at UGA from 1962 until his death in 1968. The speech is titled "How Politicians Fix Markets — Legally!" The lecture is free and open to the public.

Miller will also be the featured speaker at this month's Terry Third Thursday program in Atlanta on Thursday, September 20. He will give a talk on "Economic and Political Developments in Washington." The breakfast meetings are held on the third Thursday of every month from 7-9 a.m. at the UGA Alumni Club and Business Center in the Atlanta Financial Center.

"Miller is an insightful economist, who is full of enthusiasm and energy," said Dwight Lee, who directs the Ramsey Center for Private Enterprise in the Economics Department. "His infectious personality and competence has served the taxpayer and the economy well throughout his years of public service."

Miller earned his bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Georgia in 1964. He also holds a doctorate in economics from the University of Virginia.

Under the Reagan Administration, Miller was director of the Office of Management and Budget from 1985 to 1988 and a member of President Reagan's Cabinet and the National Security Council. During Reagan's first term, Miller served as chairman of the Federal Trade Commission.

In both 1994 and 1996, Miller was a candidate for the Republican nomination from Virginia to the U.S. Senate.

He currently serves as counselor to Citizens for a Sound Economy, an advocacy group for free enterprise and limited government. He is a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and is the John M. Olin Distinguished Fellow at the Center for Study of Public Choice at George Mason University.

In business, he is a director of the Law and Economics Consulting Group and a member of the boards of Atlantic Coast Airlines, Washington Mutual Investors Fund, and the Tax-Exempt Funds of Maryland and Virginia.

Miller has appeared on television news shows to comment on public issues, and his opinion pieces have been published in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The Washington Post, among others. He has written more than 100 articles in professional journals and is the author, co-author or editor of nine books, including "Monopoly Politics," recently published by the Hoover Press at Stanford University.

Miller was born in Atlanta in 1942 and raised in Conyers, Ga. He currently resides in McLean, Va., with his wife. They have three grown children and a grandson.

Terry Third Thursday costs $30, including breakfast. Reservations are required. For more information, go to www.terry.uga.edu/ttt or call 706-583-0397.

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