Dr. Thomas Kevin Swift, CBE

Dr. Swift is managing director of Swift Economics LLC, a consultancy providing high quality micro and macroeconomic advice to companies, trade associations, and government. He is a specialist in industry economics, business cycle analysis, geo-politics, and scenario development. His particular industry expertise is in specialty and fine chemicals and in automotive plastics. 

Dr. Swift is the former chief economist at the American Chemistry Council (ACC) in Washington, DC. After retiring from ACC he served as economic advisor to International Commodity Intelligence Services (ICIS), a global provider of market pricing and intelligence services for industry. Prior to joining the ACC, Dr. Swift was Vice President of Research (and co-founder) at The Freedonia Group and Director of Research at Predicasts, where he started as an industry analyst. He started his career at Dow Chemical. Dr. Swift is currently a lecturer in the economics of business decisions for the MBA program at the Belk College of Business at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. 

Dr. Swift is a member of the Harvard Discussion Group of Industrial Economists, the National Business Economics Issues Council, and the Association of Christian Economists. He is a member of The Wall Street Journal Forecasters’ Survey and various Consensus Economics forecast panels. After serving on the board of directors of the National Association for Business Economics (NABE), he chaired the NABE Education Committee and for his service as a professional economist and contributions to the profession, he was elected a NABE Fellow. Dr. Swift was also one of the first to achieve NABE’s Certified Business Economist (CBE) designation and later served as president of NABE.

Dr. Swift is a graduate of Ashland College with a BA degree; of Case Western Reserve University with an MA degree in Managerial Economics; and Anglia Polytechnic University with a doctorate in business administration (DBA) degree. He has completed postgraduate studies at Harvard University and the University of Oxford.