A senior staff member and research scientist in RSQE since 1978, Joan Crary is a principal co-author of RSQE’s econometric models of both the U.S. and the Michigan economies. She is an expert on the fiscal position of the U.S. government as well as the economy and finances of the State of Michigan. She is quoted frequently in the regional financial press, and her expertise is sought regularly by legislative committees and departments of state government in Lansing.