ABOUT SONECON
Sonecon, LLC, is an economic advisory firm that provides in-depth analyses and unique insights into changing economic conditions in the United States and around the world and the impact of government policies on those conditions and the prospects for particular industries. Each client receives the personal attention and analysis of a custom team of distinguished experts and senior analysts assembled from across the country for the particular project. Sonecon and its chairman, former U.S. Undersecretary of Commerce Robert Shapiro, have provided their analyses to, among many others, Prime Minister Tony Blair, President Bill Clinton, Vice President Albert Gore and Senators Hillary Clinton, as well as senior executives of Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies and prominent non-profit organizations.
Sonecon helps its clients achieve their goals. It not only provides insight and analysis but also works extensively with a network of affiliated firms to help design and execute message campaigns. Sonecon has helped respond to foreign attacks on a client’s intellectual property rights, expand regulatory protections for companies under assault by naked short sellers, determine the U.S. investments of Asian and European companies, inform market participants about distortions in natural gas futures prices, educate opinion makers about the impact on pensions of proposed tax changes, and affect certain terms of government loans programs.
SENIOR EXPERTS AND ANALYSTS
● Dr. Elaine Kamarck● Dr. Kevin A. Hassett
● Dr. Nam Pham
● Ambassador Nancy Soderberg
● Dr. Aparna Mathur
● Dr. Arun Malik
● Dr. Brian Becker
● Dr. Paula Stern
● Megha Mukim
● Karan Sigh
● Jiwon Vellucci
Co-founder and Chairman of Sonecon, llc.
In addition to chairing Sonecon, Dr. Shapiro is also a Senior Fellow of the Georgetown University School of Business, advisor to the International Monetary Fund, director of the Globalization Center at NDN, chairman of the U.S. Climate Task Force, co-chair of America Task Force Argentina, and a director member of the Ax:son-Johnson Foundation in Sweden. From 1997 to 2001, Dr. Shapiro was U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs. In that position, he directed economic policy for the Commerce Department and oversaw the Nation's major statistical agencies, including the Census Bureau while it planned and carried out the 2000 decennial census. Prior to that appointment, he was co-founder and Vice President of the Progressive Policy Institute and the Progressive Foundation. He also served as principal economic advisor to Bill Clinton in his 1991-1992 presidential campaign and senior economic advisor to Al Gore and John Kerry in their presidential campaigns. In 2008, he advised the campaign and transition of Barack Obama. Dr. Shapiro also was as Legislative Director for Senator Daniel P. Moynihan and Associate Editor of U.S. News & World Report. He has been a Fellow of Harvard University, the Brookings Institution, and the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Dr. Shapiro holds a Ph.D. and M.A. from Harvard, a M.Sc. from the London School of Economics, and an A.B. from the University of Chicago. He is widely published, and his most recent book is Futurecast: How Superpowers, Populations and Demographics Will Change the You Live and Work (St Martins’ Press, 2008).
Krista Ellis joined Sonecon as Dr. Shapiro’s executive assistant in 2009, after graduating from the University of California with a B.A. in political economics.
Prior to Sonecon, she was an intern in the office of Governor Schwarzenegger and a development assistant for Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies.