Ike Brannon serves as Senior Policy Advisor for John McCain 2008. Prior to joining the campaign he was Senior Adviser for Tax Policy at the U.S. Treasury.  Previously he served Congress as the Principal Economic Adviser for Senator Orrin Hatch on the Senate Finance Committee and Chief Economist for the Joint Economic Committee. Prior  to that he was Senior Economist for Information and Regulatory Affairs at the OMB and associate professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh and Indiana University.

Austan Goolsbee, Senior Economic Advisor to the Obama ’08 presidential campaign, is the Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. His research activities center on the Internet, tax policy and business decisions, capital investment, and government policy. He is a research associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a research fellow for the American Bar Foundation.