Profile

Mark Skousen was an economic analyst for the CIA from 1972 to 1975. He later worked as a consultant for IBM and Hutchinson Technology, and other companies. He was a columnist for Forbes magazine from 1997 to 2001, and has contributed articles to The Wall Street Journal as well as to various libertarian periodicals. He has been a speaker at investment conferences and has lectured for think tanks, From 2008-2010 he was a weekly contributor on CNBC’s Kudlow & Company and has also appeared on C-SPAN Book TV and Fox News.

Skousen has lectured on economics and finance at Columbia Business School, Barnard College at Columbia University, Mercy College in New York and Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. In April 2005, distance education provider Grantham University renamed its online School of Business “The Mark Skousen School of Business.” He has been named a “Presidential Fellow” at Chapman University for 2014.
Skousen served as president of the free market nonprofit Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) from 2001 to 2002.