Chris Thornberg

Dr. Chris Thornberg is Founding Partner at Beacon Economics LLC.
Dr. Thornberg has served on the advisory board of Wall Street hedge fund Paulson & Co. Inc since 2006.
Between 2008 and 2012, he was a chief economic advisor to the California State Controller's Office and served as Chair of State Controller John Chiang's Council of Economic Advisors- the body that advises the state's chief fiscal officer about emerging economic issues.
Prior to founding Beacon in 2007, Dr. Thornberg was an economist with UCLA's Anderson Forecast where he regularly authored economic outlooks for California, Los Angeles, and the East Bay.
He also developed a number of specialized forecasts for various regions and industries.
Previously, he has taught in the MBA program at UC San Diego's Rady School of Business, at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand, and has held a faculty position in the economics department at Clemson University.
He currently serves on the editorial board of the Graziadio Business Report, a peer-reviewed publication published by the Graziadio School of Business and Management at Pepperdine University, and on the Residential Real Estate Committee at the University of San Diego's Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate.
He is a panel member of the National Association of Business Economists ' quarterly outlook, and contributes to the consensus outlook of the Journal of Business Forecasting.
He is on the boards of the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce, the Asian Real Estate Association of America, and America's Edge, a nonprofit organization focused on strengthening the economy through public investments in youth and education.
Dr. Thornberg holds a Ph.D in Business Economics from The Anderson School at UCLA, and a B.S.
degree in Business Administration from the State University of New York at Buffalo.