Christopher C. Barnekov: Experience and Qualifications

• Over four decades, Chris Barnekov served as an economic policy analyst for seven federal agencies (U.S. Navy, Department of Transportation, U.S. Senate, Congressional Budget Office, Interstate Commerce Commission, Legal Services Corporation, and Federal Communications Commission).

• His doctorate in policy economics is from The University of Chicago, writing under George J. Stigler, who won the Nobel Prize in 1982 largely for his work in the economics of regulation and information.

• Applying Stigler’s insights, Barnekov served on the teams that produced economic deregulation of airlines, railroads, motor carriers, interstate buses, long distance telephone rates ... and the Internet. He helped abolish his own federal job four times.

• He taught economics a total of seven years at Ohio State and Ohio University.

• Barnekov has also served the church as an editor, in a foreign missions ‘tent-making’ capacity, as faculty sponsor of a university Christian fellowship, on congregational youth staff, and in several congregational offices.

• He now operates Scandinavia House in Fort Wayne, which helps graduate students from Scandinavia study at Concordia Theological Seminary, and serves as a ‘liaison’ between the believing remnant in Scandinavia and confessional Lutherans in America.