Dr. Charles W. McMillion
President & Chief Economist
MBG Information Services
Charles McMillion is President and Chief Economist of MBG Information Services, a business information, analysis and forecasting firm based in Washington, DC. He is a former Associate Director of the Johns Hopkins University Policy Institute, where he researched and managed business and economic policy issues and projects in the U.S. and abroad, and a former Contributing Editor of the Harvard Business Review.
He has held staff director and chief economist positions in the U.S. House and Senate and is a founder and former executive director of the bipartisan United States Congressional Economic
Leadership Institute, where he worked with the Speaker of the House to conduct the major opening activity of the 100th Congress. The author or editor of four books and over 150 scholarly and popular articles and reports, McMillion was also a contributing Editor of The Harvard Business Review, writing a regular column on key business and financial trends. He frequently lectures in the U.S., Europe and Asia including four tours sponsored by the United States Information Agency. A returned Peace Corps Volunteer in Ethiopia, he is active in civic organizations. McMillion earned his Ph.D. in political economy at Rutgers University.