Alan Maguire is the President and Principal Economist of The Maguire Company. Prior to forming The Maguire Company, Mr. Maguire was a senior investment banker with a regional securities firm. During his tenure, he was the leading financial advisor in the state of Arizona and served as either senior manager or senior financial advisor on over $1 billion in tax-exempt financing. His clients included: Arizona Transportation Board, Arizona Department of Administration, Arizona State University, University of Arizona, Northern Arizona University, City of Prescott, City of Flagstaff, and others.
In the 1980s, Mr. Maguire was the Chief Deputy in the Office of the State Treasurer. As such he had overall management responsibility for an annual cash flow of $6 billion and an internally managed, fixed income investment portfolio of more than $2 billion. Prior to that, he served as the Economic Advisor to the Arizona State Senate, where he was involved in all legislation with either a direct or indirect impact on the municipal fiscal structure of state and local government in Arizona.
Mr. Maguire was directly involved in helping to create: the 1980 Property Tax and School Finance reforms; the 1981 Highway User Revenue Fund revisions; the recodification of the Arizona Income Tax code; the State Constitutional Expenditure Limit and numerous other legislative reforms. Mr. Maguire has served as an advisor to several Arizona Governors, Arizona Senate Presidents, and Arizona House Speakers. In addition, he has served on numerous special legislative study committees and provides frequent expert testimony to legislative policy committees.
Mr. Maguire is involved in a wide array of community organizations including serving as President of the Arizona Economic Forum, Chairman of the Arizona English Language Learner Task Force, and member of the Arizona Economic Estimates Commission, the Phoenix Economic Club, and the Arizona Economic Roundtable. Currently, he is on the Board of Directors of the Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce. He is past Chairman of the Arizona Town Hall, past Chairman of the Arizona State Retirement System Board of Trustees, past Chairman of the Arizona Public Safety Personnel Retirement System Board of Trustees Investment Oversight Committee, past President of the Maricopa County Industrial Development Authority, past Director of the Arizona State Retirement System, and former member of the Arizona Board of Investment. He is an original member of the Arizona, Western States, and Metro-Phoenix Blue Chip Economic Forecast Panels.