STEPHEN BANNISTER

Having grown up in a U.S. Military family, I have lived in and assimilated the customs and languages of France, Japan, and many U.S. states.I attended nine grade schools and three high schools before attending the Massachusetts Institute of Techonology in Aeronauatical Engineering, and earning a Bachelor of Science Degree in Economic Theory with High Honors from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.After military service, including service in Thailand, my business career has included stints with Fortune 500 firms, mid-size manufacturing firms, international management consulting, and four technology and medical start-ups.I now have turned a lingering desire for service into reality by entering the University of Utah Economics Ph.D. program which, after several years of immersion, I consider one of the most important in the world , and to the world, due to its breadth and depth in both scholarship and students.This great opportunity has strengthened my lifelong interest in macroeconomics and given me a newly developed passion for statistics expressed through econometrics, specifically the statistics of time series.So now, if someone asks me what I am, I say I am a macroeconometrician interested in both the historical and empirical role of energy consumption in economic development and growth.I have also discovered that I am passionate about truth in both Economics teaching and research, and I look forward to a productive, and long, career in both.