John Shoven’s research is in the fields of public finance, corporate finance and investments. An expert on tax policy, Social Security, and U.S. saving patterns, Shoven was a consultant for the U.S. Treasury Department from 1975 to 1988. The author of more than one hundred professional articles and twenty books, he has been a visiting professor at Harvard University, the London School of Economics, and Kyoto University. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Shoven edited Demography & the Economy, published by the University of Chicago Press, in 2011. His 2008 book, Putting Our House in Order: A Guide to Social Security and Health Care Reform, was co-authored by Secretary George P. Shultz.
Shoven joined the Stanford faculty in 1973, and has served as the Chairman of the Economics Department (1986-89), Director of the Center for Economic Policy Research (1988-93) and Dean of Humanities and Sciences (1993-98). He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Shoven is Chairman of the Board of Cadence Design Systems and is also a member of the board of directors of Exponent, Inc., Financial Engines and American Century Funds. He served on the board of Watson Wyatt from 2002-06.