Lee Reynis, PhD, has served as city economist for the City of Albuquerque and chief economist for the New Mexico Department of Finance and Administration. She is the immediate past director of the University of New Mexico Bureau of Business and Economic Research, which is noted for its highly respected economic and other research, studies, and reports.

Jim Peach, PhD, is a regents professor in the Department of Economics and International Business, College of Business, New Mexico State University. He is the author of many scholarly articles and has received awards at NMSU for outstanding funded research and teaching excellence.