About the Dean

Mike Knetter

Albert O. Nicholas Dean, Wisconsin School of Business
Special Assistant/Liaison to the Chancellor for Long-Term Strategy and Development
Member of the Wisconsin Business Council Advisory Board
Research Associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research
Faculty Affiliate of the La Follette School of Public Affairs

University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI
(608) 262-1758
mknetter@bus.wisc.edu

Education:
BA 1983, UW-Eau Claire
PhD 1988, Economics, Stanford University

Biography:
Michael M. Knetter joined the Wisconsin School of Business as its dean in July 2002. As dean, he has orchestrated the novel $85 million Wisconsin Naming Gift, the expansion of Grainger Hall, the restructuring and improved national standing of the full-time MBA, and the restructuring and expansion of the Enterprise MBA. Prior to joining the school, he was associate dean of the MBA program and professor of international economics in the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.

Knetter has published widely in the areas of international and macroeconomics. He served as senior staff economist for the President's Council of Economic Advisors for former presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, and is currently research associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research and faculty affiliate of the La Follette School of Public Affairs. He is a director of American Family Insurance and Wausau Paper, and a former director of Great Wolf Resorts. He also currently serves as a trustee of Neuberger Berman Funds and Northwestern Mutual Series Fund, and as a member of the Advisory Board of the newly formed Wisconsin Business Council. He is chairing the capital campaign for The Road Home of Dane County, a non-profit that assists in finding housing and work solutions for homeless families in Dane County.

Knetter completed his undergraduate studies in economics and mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and his Ph.D. in economics at Stanford University.