Antony Davies

Antony Davies (born 4 April 1965) is an American economist, speaker, and author. He is an associate professor of economics at Duquesne University and the Milton Friedman Distinguished Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education. Early life and education Davies was born in Savannah, Georgia, to Alan and Margaret Davies. He was raised in Montoursville, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Bishop Neumann High School in Williamsport, Pennsylvania in 1983. Starting at an early age, he acted with the Community Theatre League. He graduated cum laude with a B.S. degree in economics with minors in mathematics and philosophy from Saint Vincent College in 1987. In 1994, he received his Ph.D. in economics from the University at Albany in Albany, New York, where he studied under Kajal Lahiri. His Ph.D. thesis addressed analysis of multi-dimensional panel data in econometrics, and it received the Distinguished Dissertation Award. Professional history While a college student, he founded Paragon Software with Mark E. Seremet. Davies's first faculty appointment was at West Virginia Wesleyan College, after which he moved on to West Virginia University where he taught econometrics. During the dot-com era, he left academia to serve as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Analytics Officer at Parabon Computation, where he was co-inventor on a patent for generating supercomputing power from idle Internet-connected computers. In 2001, he joined the faculty at Duquesne University where he helped design the economics major.