ITHACA, N.Y. -- R. Richard Geddes, associate professor of policy analysis and management at Cornell University since 2002, will be heading to Washington, D.C., for a one-year term beginning Aug. 1 to serve as a senior staff economist with President George W. Bush's Council of Economic Advisers (CEA).

Geddes, who was appointed in mid-March by the council members, will be one of 10 senior economists working with the three-member CEA, which analyzes and interprets economic developments, appraises the programs and activities of the government and advises the president on national economic policy.

"We work on the issues of the day, sort of like the SWAT team of policy analysis," says Geddes, who is an expert in electricity deregulation, regulation and corporate governance, public utilities, the economics of postal delivery, infrastructure development in emerging markets and the economics of women's property rights. He will take a leave of absence from Cornell.

Geddes, who also is a research associate at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, is the editor of a new book, Competing with the Government: Anticompetitive Behavior and Public Enterprises (Hoover Press, 2004), the author of Saving the Mail: How to Solve the Problems of the U.S. Postal Service (2003) and co-editor of Private Power in the Pacific (1994). He has published numerous articles in scholarly journals, including the American Economic Review ,Encyclopedia of Law and Economics ,Journal of Law and Economics ,Journal of Legal Studies ,Journal of Regulatory Economics ,Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference ,Regulation, Resources and Energy andReview of Industrial Organization.

Geddes previously was a research fellow and a national fellow at the Hoover Institution, an associate professor of economics at Fordham University, director of the Visiting Fellows Program at the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University and a visiting faculty fellow at Yale University Law School. He earned Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in economics from the University of Chicago and a B.S. in economics and finance from Towson University.