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Jack Lavery
Jack Lavery is Chairman, CEO, and Chief Economist of Lavery Consulting Group, L.L.C. (LCG), a firm specializing in giving presentations on the outlook for the economy and financial markets in the U.S. and globally. LCG focuses on serving financial institutions, money managers and corporate clients, including those seeking to impact high net worth individuals.
Jack served for 5 years as Chairman of the Board of Advisors to the Business School of the University of Maine, where he is Senior Executive Fellow in Financial Economics within the School of Economics.
Jack had an extraordinary 20-year career at Merrill Lynch & Co., from which he retired in 2000, to teach at Seton Hall University as Visiting Professor and Executive-in-Residence, and later to launch LCG. He built and orchestrated Merrill Lynch’ Global Securities Research & Economics complex for eleven years as SVP. Jack also was the Executive running Merrill Lynch’s worldwide Global Equities business for three years, and served as Director of Corporate Strategy for ML & Co. for one year. Jack also created and ran the Firm’s Public Policy Research Group.
Jack joined Merrill Lynch in 1981 as Chief Economist and Director of Economic Research of Merrill Lynch & Co., before assuming broader management responsibilities as head of the then-merged Securities Research & Economics Division in September 1984. He was a member of the Institutional Investor “All America Research Team” in Economics in each of his four years as Chief Economist of Merrill Lynch. A more detailed bio is available upon request.
