Chief Global Economist/Strategist

Allen can be contacted through


Email: asinai@decisioneconomicsinc.com

Allen Sinai is Chief Global Economist, Strategist and President of Decision Economics, Inc. (DE), a global economics, strategy, financial market information support and advisory firm. DE was founded in 1996 and is located in New York, Boston and London, serving over 300 financial institutions, corporations, governments, and individuals worldwide. Dr. Sinai is responsible for the firms forecasts and analyses of the U.S. and world economies and financial markets, including the stock market, interest rates and exchange rates, as well as trading and investment strategy.

During his career Dr. Sinai has served a wide variety of organizations and decision-makers in the United States and abroad, as a forecaster, educator, and econometric modelbuilder. He has been consulted by various administrations from both political parties on key economic and policy issues, has often testified before Congress, and meets regularly with senior level policymakers from other countries. He is a recognized expert on the Federal Reserve and monetary policy, both as a scholar and in forecasting Federal Reserve policy, and has served as a consultant to the Federal Reserve. He is known for his objective factset-based analysis and forecasts, which over many years, have proved to be quite accurate, especially on the financial markets and on “big wave” economic, political, and societal fundamental trends that move business and markets.

Between 1983 and 1996, Dr. Sinai was Chief Global Economist and a Managing Director, and the Director of Lehman Brothers Global Economics of Lehman Brothers, Inc.. He joined Lehman in 1983 to establish the Lehman, later Shearson Lehman, Economics Department. From 1988 to 1992, he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Economist of The Boston Company, an asset management and banking subsidiary of Shearson Lehman Brothers, where he also headed a small economic information company, The Boston Company Economic Advisors, Inc.. Before joining Lehman Brothers, he was at Data Resources, Inc., serving as Chief Financial Economist and a Senior Vice President. At DRI from 1971 to 1983, he worked with founder and head Otto Eckstein in macroeconomic and financial forecasting and as a co-developer of the DRI Model of the U.S. Economy.

Allen Sinai holds a Bachelors Degree in Economics from the University of Michigan and a Doctorate in Economics from Northwestern University.