David M. Blitzer, Ph.D., served as a Managing Director and Chairman of the Index Committee at S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC with overall responsibility for index security selection and management. Previously he was the Chief Economist, Chief Investment Strategist and Director of Equity Research at Standard & Poor’s.

Before joining the firm, Blitzer was Corporate Economist at The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Prior to that, he was a Senior Economic Analyst at National Economic Research Associates, Inc. and did consulting work for various government and private sector agencies including the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, the National Commission on Materials Policy and Natural Resources Defense Council.

Blitzer won the 2012 William F. Sharpe Indexing Lifetime Achievement Award. He is the author of Outpacing the Pros: Using Indices to Beat Wall Street’s Savviest Money Managers, (McGraw-Hill, 2001) and What’s the Economy Trying to Tell You? Everyone’s Guide to Understanding and Profiting from the Economy, (McGraw-Hill, 1997). In 2000, he was named to SmartMoney magazine’s distinguished list of the 30 most influential people in the world of investing. In 1998 Blitzer received the Blue Chip Economic Forecasting Award as the nation’s top economist for most accurately predicting the country’s leading economic indicators for four years in a row.

Mr. Blitzer is a well-known speaker at economic, investing and indexing conferences. He is often interviewed and quoted in the local, national and international media, including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, CNN, CNBC, and Bloomberg News.

Blitzer is a Graduate of Cornell University with a B.S. in Engineering. He received his M.A. in Economics from the George Washington University and Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University.