Geoffrey H. Moore
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(Acting)
(Acting)
Rochester, New York
Geoffrey Moore | |
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| Commissioner of Labor Statistics | |
| In office March 1969–January 1973 | |
| President | Richard Nixon |
| Preceded by | Ben Burdestky (Acting) |
| Succeeded by | Ben Burdetsky (Acting) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | February 28, 1914 Rochester, New York |
| Died | March 9, 2000 (aged 86) Bloomfield, Connecticut |
| Education | Harvard University University of California |
Geoffrey Hoyt Moore (February 28, 1914 – March 9, 2000), whom The Wall Street Journal called "the father of leading indicators",[1] spent several decades working on business cycles at the National Bureau of Economic Research,[2] where he helped build on the work of his mentors, Wesley Clair Mitchell and Arthur F. Burns.[3][4] Moore also served as commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics from March 1969 to January 1973.[1]
In 1946 Moore was teaching statistics at New York University and one of his students was Alan Greenspan,[5] later chairman of the Federal Reserve, who would tell The New York Times that Moore was "a major force in economic statistics and business-cycle research for more than a half-century."[4] In 1956 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[6] In 1996 Moore founded the Economic Cycle Research Institute in New York City.[4]
