President of Paul A. London and Associates.

Paul London is an economic consultant in Washington. He is the author of “The Competition Solution: the Bipartisan Secret behind American Prosperity,” AEI Press, March 2005. The Italian translation was published by Universita Bocconi Editore, in June 2006 and was cited repeatedly in the Italian parliament in the debate about opening that economy to competition.

London wrote the book from May 2000 to May 2003 while a Visiting Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. The experience of being one of the few Democrats at AEI was a wonderful and eye opening one.

He was a Senior Policy Advisor at the US Department of Commerce in the second Clinton administration, where because of his interest in the economics of health care reform he represented Commerce on the Interagency “Privacy Task Force” on Computerized Medical Records.

From 1993 to 1997, Deputy Undersecretary of Commerce for Economics and Statistics and the chair of the Working Group on the Pricing Outlook, which foretold the fall of inflation during the 1990s despite low and falling unemployment.

From 1980 to 1993, he was president of Paul A. London and Associates, doing consulting projects related to trade, healthcare, energy and utilities regulation.

London worked on the Senate and House sides of the Capitol from 1971 until 1978 when he went into the Carter administration as a Deputy Assistant Administrator at the Federal Energy Administration working on conservation policy issues

He was a Foreign Service Officer in the 1960s serving in Paris and Viet Nam. He worked on worked on “European integration,” the “Common Market”, and the Common Agricultural Policy in both Washington and Paris, and on rural development issues in Viet Nam (1965-1968).

London wrote one of the first books on “privatization” in economic development entitled: “Merchants as Promoters of Rural in Development – An Indian Case Study” (Praeger, 1975). It drew on over 200 interviews with fertilization and irrigation equipment merchants in Indian market towns.

He is the author of many articles in the area of political economy in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsday, The New Republic, Public Utilities Quarterly, and other journals.

PhD, MA, and BA (magna cum laude) from Harvard College (1958) and the Kennedy School (1974).

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