Michael Knetter
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Michael Knetter is a past dean of the Wisconsin School of Business
Wisconsin School of Business
The Wisconsin School of Business is the business school of University of Wisconsin–Madison, located in Grainger Hall. Founded in 1900, it has more than 35,000 alumni. The undergraduate program prepares students for business careers, while its Master of Business Administration program is based on...

. Effective October 16, 2010, Knetter is the new president and chief executive officer of the University of Wisconsin Foundation - the official fundraising arm of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was educated at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire and received his doctorate from Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

. Knetter is widely published in the field of international and macroeconomics
Macroeconomics
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. He was a senior staff economist for Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

 and George H.W. Bush. Before becoming the dean of the Wisconsin School Business he worked as a professor
Professor
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 and as the associate dean at the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...

. He is currently a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research
National Bureau of Economic Research
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Additionally, Knetter has received much praise for his fundraising technique. Stephen Levitt wrote in the New York Times that "Michael Knetter may just go down as one of the greatest fundraisers of all time." http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/14/85-million-will-buy-you-nothing-at-the-university-of-wisconsin/ Knetter received this praise due to his 85 million dollar fundraising campaign for the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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