William L. Silber is a former chaired professor at The Stern School of Business, New York University, most recently as the Marcus Nadler Professor of Finance and Economics (2002-2019) and before that as the Abraham Gitlow Professor of Economics and Finance (1990-2002). He has served as Senior Economist with the President's Council of Economic Advisors, was a member of the Economic Advisory Panel of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and has published eight books, including a college textbook, ''Principles of Money, Banking and Financial Markets'', with Lawrence Ritter and Gregory Udell (Addison Wesley, 2009), that has gone through twelve editions. His most notable contributions have been in monetary economics, finance, and economic history, where he has shown the importance of analyzing institutional detail before applying statistical techniques to historical data. His analysis has also drawn on his work in the business world. He traded options and futures contracts on the Commodity Exchange and the New York Mercantile Exchange and he was a portfolio manager at the hedge fund Odyssey Partners.
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