Donald J. Rissmiller is a partner at Strategas Research Partners and the firm’s chief economist, directing its macroeconomic research effort. He oversees Strategas’ high-frequency econometric forecasting. Rissmiller’s research has been recognized by Institutional Investor magazine in their annual survey for the past two years, and he was voted their Best Up & Coming economist in 2008. Prior to co-founding Strategas in 2006, he was an economist and managing director at International Strategy & Investment (ISI) Group. Before joining ISI, Rissmiller worked as an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where he focused on the analysis of US macroeconomic data and price/wage forecasting models. Rissmiller earned his AB in economics magna cum laude from Harvard University.