Stephen Brobeck is the director of the

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Biography

Brobeck was born in 1944. He did undergraduate studies at Wheaton College and got his doctorate at

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. In the late 1960s Brobeck was active in the

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. In the 1970s Brobeck was an assistant professor at

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. Brobeck has published on banking and product safety. From 1976-1979 Brobeck was on the board of the Consumer Federation of America, and from 1980 to present he has been the executive director. Brobeck was director of the

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from 1990-1996. Brobeck edited the ''

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''.

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