Editing Alan Greenspan (section)

===Before the Federal Reserve===
{{See also|Greenspan Commission}}

During his economics studies at New York University, Greenspan worked under Eugene Banks, a managing director at the [[Wall Street]] investment bank [[Brown Brothers Harriman]], in the firm's equity research department.{{Sfn|Greenspan|2007|p=31}} From 1948 to 1953, Greenspan worked as an analyst at the National Industrial Conference Board (currently known as [[the Conference Board]]), a business- and industry-oriented [[think tank]] in New York City.{{Sfn|Greenspan|2007|pp=32–34, 41–45}} Before he was appointed chairman of the Federal Reserve, from 1955 to 1987, Greenspan was chairman and president of Townsend-Greenspan & Co., Inc., an economics consulting firm in New York City. His 32-year stint there was interrupted only from 1974 to 1977, when he served as chairman of the [[Council of Economic Advisers]], under President [[Gerald Ford]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Alan Greenspan |url=https://www.federalreservehistory.org/people/alan-greenspan |website=federalreservehistory.org |access-date=April 12, 2022}}</ref>

In mid-1968, Greenspan agreed to serve as Richard Nixon's coordinator on domestic policy in the nomination campaign.<ref>{{cite book |first=Stephen |last=Ambrose |author-link=Stephen Ambrose |title=Nixon |publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]] |location=New York |year=1987 |page=[https://archive.org/details/nixon00ambr_0/page/158 158] |isbn=978-0-671-52837-9 |oclc=14414031 |url=https://archive.org/details/nixon00ambr_0/page/158 }}</ref> Greenspan has also served as a corporate director for [[Alcoa|Aluminum Company of America]] (Alcoa); [[Automatic Data Processing]]; [[American Broadcasting Company|Capital Cities/ABC, Inc.]]; [[General Foods]]; [[J.P. Morgan & Co.]]; [[Morgan Guaranty Trust Company]]; [[Mobil|Mobil Corporation]]; and the [[Pittston Company]].<ref>{{cite press release |title=Alan Greenspan, Chairman of the Board of Governors of Federal Reserve, Receives Dean's Medal at Wharton School MBA Commencement |publisher=[[Wharton School]] |date=April 19, 2005 |url= http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/whartonfacts/news_and_events/newsreleases/2005/p_2005_4_332.html |access-date=October 17, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090727195705/http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/whartonfacts/news_and_events/newsreleases/2005/p_2005_4_332.html |archive-date=July 27, 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=U.S. Senate Panel Votes for 4th Term for Fed Chairman Greenspan |agency =Bloomberg News |work=[[Deseret News]] |url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/809511/US-Senate-Panel-Votes-for-4th-Term-for-Fed-Chairman-Greenspan.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023203407/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/809511/US-Senate-Panel-Votes-for-4th-Term-for-Fed-Chairman-Greenspan.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 23, 2012 |date=February 1, 2000}}</ref> He was a director of the [[Council on Foreign Relations]] foreign policy organization between 1982 and 1988.<ref>{{cite book |last=Grose |first=Peter |title=Continuing the inquiry: the Council on Foreign Relations from 1921 to 1996 |publisher=[[Council on Foreign Relations]] |location=New York |year=1996 |isbn=978-0-87609-192-0 |oclc=35280546 |chapter=Historical Roster of Directors and Officers |chapter-url=http://www.cfr.org/about/history/cfr/appendix.html |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/continuinginquir0000gros }}</ref> He also served as a member of the influential Washington-based financial advisory body, the [[Group of Thirty]] in 1984.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}