Bio
Malcolm Lovell is an Executive in Residence at the George Washington University School of Business. He is also a member of the Board of Advisors and its Executive Committee.
He served as President of the National Policy Association from February 1, 1992 to 2000. The NPA, founded in 1934, is an economic and social policy research organization bringing leaders from business, labor, and academia together to discuss national and international challenges facing our nation.
During the period from 1983 through 2000 he was also Moderator of the Collective Bargaining Forum, a group of high-level business executives and senior union leaders who met regularly to improve understanding and cooperation between the parties. The Forum produced a number of papers on collective bargaining with full agreement of all the members and served as a useful tool in improving relationships.
From 1985 until 1992, Lovell was a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Government and Business and Director of the Labor Management Institute at the George Washington University School of Business and Public Management. During that period he was also a Senior Research Fellow at the Hudson Institute.
He served from 1986 to 1988 as chairman of a task force on “Economic Adjustment and Worker Dislocation.” Appointed by Secretary of Labor, William Brock, the group made recommendations regarding trade adjustment policies which were later enacted into law. From March 1983 until January 1985 he was a visiting scholar at the Brookings Institution.
Lovell was appointed by President Ronald Reagan as the nation’s 17th Under Secretary of Labor, the second ranking Department official, and was confirmed by the United States Senate on September 29, 1981. He served in that capacity until February 1983.
From 1973 until 1981 he served as President of the Rubber Manufacturers Association. The RMA, with headquarters in Washington DC, is the national trade association of the tire and rubber industry.
Lovell served in the Nixon Administration as Assistant Secretary of Labor for Manpower from 1970 to 1973. Before being named by President Nixon to this sub-Cabinet post, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Manpower and Manpower Administrator from 1969 to 1970.
Prior to 1969 Lovell held a number of executive positions under then Governor George Romney of Michigan, including Director of the Michigan Employment Security Commission, Director of the Michigan Economic Opportunity Office, and Chairman of the Michigan State Labor Mediation Board. Earlier, he served both the Ford Motor Company and American Motors in a variety of executive capacities in industrial relations.
Lovell was graduated from the Harvard Business School with a Master’s Degree in Business Administration in 1946 and attended Brown University from 1939 until 1942.
He served as a Lieutenant with a Naval Intelligence group in China during World War II.
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