King Banaian

Economics professor and Minnesota state representative.

Professor King Banaian is a professor in the Department of Economics at St. Cloud State University. He holds the Ph.D. in economics from the Claremont Graduate School. He has consulted at the central banks of Ukraine, Egypt and Macedonia and the ministries of finance of Indonesia, Macedonia and Armenia. He is author of The Ukrainian Economy since Independence (Edward Elgar, 1998), co-editor of The Design and Use of Political Economy Indicators (Palgrave, 2008) and more than forty articles and book chapters discussing monetary policy and political economy. He directs the Center for Economic Education at SCSU. He is a fellow of the Armenian International Policy Research Group in Washington, DC and Yerevan, Armenia. He currently represents the north and east portions of St. Cloud and Haven Township in the Minnesota House of Representatives.

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Business Positions

Salem Media Group Christian and family-themed radio, owns 94 stations in 37 markets

• Talk show host ('04→?)

Board Memberships

Minnesota House of Representatives Lower legislative body of State of Minnesota, meets annually. 134 members

• District 15B representative (Jan '11→Dec '12)

Positions

St. Cloud State University Largest undergraduate and master's level school in Minnesota.

• Professor (Aug '84→?)

Minnesota Free Market Institute A non-partisan, non-profit educational organization dedicated to the principles of individual sovereignty, private property and the rule of law.

• Economics Fellow ('07→'09)

Pitzer College One of the Claremont Colleges

• visiting professor (Sep '92→Jun '95)