is former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury in the Reagan administration, associate editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal and Business Week. He served as Senior Research Fellow at Hoover Institution, and Stanford, and held the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy at Georgetown University. Dr. Roberts has testified before committees of Congress on 30 occasions and was awarded the US Treasury's Meritorious Service Award for "outstanding contributions to the formulation of US economic policy". He was educated at the University of California, Berkeley, and Oxford.