Geoffrey H. Moore

Geoffrey Hoyt Moore (February 28, 1914 – March 9, 2000), whom The Wall Street Journal called "the father of leading indicators",^[1] spent several decades working on business cycles at the National Bureau of Economic Research,^[2] where he helped build on the work of his mentors, Wesley Clair Mitchell and Arthur F. Burns.^[3][4] Moore also served as commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics from March 1969 to January 1973.^[1]

Geoffrey Moore
Commissioner of Labor Statistics
In office March 1969–January 1973
President	Richard Nixon
Preceded by	Ben Burdestky (Acting)
Succeeded by	Ben Burdetsky (Acting)
Personal details
Born	(1914-02-28)February 28, 1914 Rochester, New York
Died	March 9, 2000(2000-03-09) (aged 86) Bloomfield, Connecticut
Education	Harvard University University of California

In 1946 Moore was teaching statistics at New York University and one of his students was Alan Greenspan,^[5] later chairman of the Federal Reserve, who would tell The New York Times that Moore was "a major force in economic statistics and business-cycle research for more than a half-century."^[4] In 1956 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.^[6] In 1996 Moore founded the Economic Cycle Research Institute in New York City.^[4]