R. Glenn Hubbard, Ph.D.

R. Glenn Hubbard, Ph.D.

Chairman at MetLife
Company Tenure: 17 years
Education:
University of Central Florida (B.A.) University of Central Florida (B.S.) Harvard University (Ph.D.)
Biography:

R. Glenn Hubbard joined the Board of Directors at Metlife in 2007 and was appointed to Chairman in 2019 and is also on the Board of Directors of TotalEnergies since 2021. Mr. Hubbard has served as a Professor of Economics at Columbia University since 1997, Russell L. Carson Professor of Economics and Finance, Graduate School of Business since 1994, was Dean of the Graduate School of Business from 2004 to 2019 and Dean Emeritus of the Graduate School of Business since 2019. Mr. Hubbard served on the Board of Directors at Automatic Data Processing from 2004 to 2020, Dex Media, KKR Financial Corporation, and Automatic Data Processing. Mr. Hubbard serves as the Co-Chair of the Committee on Capital Market Regulation since 2006, a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Panel of Economic Advisors from 1993 to 2001 and from 2007 2017, and Chairman of the Economic Policy Committee at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development from 2001 to 2003. Mr. Hubbard served as the Economic Advisor to the 2016 Presidential Campaign of Jeb Bush and the 2012 and 2008 Presidential Campaign of Mitt Romney, Chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers from 2001 to 2003, and Deputy Assistant of the Treasury at the U.S. Department of the Treasury from 1991 to 1993.

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Republican Support
Democratic Support
$180,260 $0

Affiliated Companies

MetLife

MetLife

Key Statements

“And I think the idea is not to promise people that we're going to continue to use a lot of coal forever, because frankly, we're not. It doesn't matter whether you're coming at it from solutions from the left or the right. And I'll come to those in a moment. That's not going to happen. But what you can say is ‘What are ways we can prepare you for a different economy?’ Again, it goes back to the kinds of training programs and place-based aid and luring businesses. Climate change is a great example. What government should do and could do is use a price on carbon as a way to get business to innovate.”

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“Climate change is real, it is important, and it's an externality, meaning no one of us can internalize all of that. We do know how to fix externalities. We have to use the tax system or subsidies. So we absolutely, I think, need things like a carbon tax or things like that.”

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“I would put myself out there, perhaps very different from the [Trump] administration, in supporting a carbon tax as well. I think we have to get much more serious than we are about climate change.”

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