Professor Kahn is the Robert Julius Thorne Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus, at Cornell University and a Special Consultant to NERA.

He has been Chairman of the New York Public Service Commission; Chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board; and Advisor to the President (Carter) on Inflation and Chairman of the Council on Wage and Price Stability.

Professor Kahn received his Bachelor's (summa cum laude) and Master's degrees from New York University and a Doctorate in Economics from Yale University. Following service in the Army, he served as Chairman of the Department of Economics at Ripon College, Wisconsin. He moved to the Department of Economics at Cornell University, where he remained until he took leave to assume the Chairmanship of the New York Public Service Commission. During his tenure at Cornell, Professor Kahn served as Chairman of the Department of Economics, member of the Board of Trustees of the University and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

Throughout his career, Professor Kahn has served on a variety of public and private boards and commissions including: the Attorney General's National Committee to Study the Antitrust Laws; the senior staff of the President's Council of Economic Advisors; the Economic Advisory Council of American Telephone & Telegraph Company; the National Academy of Sciences Advisory Review Committee on Sulfur Dioxide Emissions; the Environmental Advisory Committee of the Federal Energy Administration; the Public Advisory Board of the Electric Power Research Institute; the Board of Directors of the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority; the Executive Committee of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners; the National Commission for Review of Antitrust Laws and Procedures; the New York State Council on Fiscal and Economic Priorities; the Governor of New York's Fact-Finding Panel on Long Island Lighting Company’s Nuclear Power Plant at Shoreham, L.I.; the Governor of New York's Advisory Committee on Public Power for Long Island; the National Governing Board of Common Cause; in 1990, as Chairman of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis Advisory Committee on Price Reform and Competition in the USSR; in 1999, Member of the National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council/Transportation Research Board Committee for a Study of Competition in the U.S. Airline Industry; and in 2000, Chair of the Blue Ribbon Panel to Study Pricing in the California Electricity Market.

He has also served as a court-appointed expert in State of New York v. Kraft General Foods, Inc., et al., U.S. District Court, S.D.N.Y.; Advisor to New York Governor Carey on Telecommunications Policy; and as a consultant to the Attorneys General of New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois, the Ford Foundation, the National Commission on Food Marketing, Federal Trade Commission, Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the City of Denver on charging and financing of Stapleton Airport.

He has received L.L.D. honorary degrees from Colby College, Ripon College, Northwestern University, the University of Massachusetts and and an honorary D.H.L. from the State University of New York, Albany; he also received the Distinguished Transportation Research Award of the Transportation Board Forum, The Alumni Achievement Award of New York University, the award of the American Economic Association's Transportation and Public Utilities Group for Outstanding Contributions to Scholarship, The Henry Edward Salzberg Honorary Award from Syracuse University for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Transportation, the Burton Gordon Feldman Award for Distinguished Public Service from Brandeis University, the Wilbur Cross Medal for outstanding achievement (Yale University), The 1997 L. Welch Pogue Award For Lifetime Contributions to Aviation, the 1997 Sovereign Fund Award Honoring Vision, Commitment and Achievement in the Pursuit of Individual Freedom, and the J. Rhoads Foster Award for achievements in economic regulation; and was elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Vice President of the American Economic Association. He was for 15 years a regular commentator on PBS’s "The Nightly Business Report."
He has testified before many U.S. Senate and House Committees, the Federal Power Commission, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and numerous state regulatory bodies.

Professor Kahn's publications include Whom the Gods Would Destroy, or How Not to Deregulate; Letting Go: Deregulating the Process of Deregulation; Great Britain in the World Economy; Fair Competition: The Law and Economics of Antitrust Policy (co-authored); Integration and Competition in the Petroleum Industry (co-authored); and The Economics of Regulation. He has written numerous articles which have appeared in The American Economic Review, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, The Journal of Political Economy, Harvard Law Review, Yale Journal on Regulation, Yale Law Journal, Fortune, The Antitrust Bulletin and The Economist, among others.

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