Kurt Van Kuller

KURT VAN KULLER is a First Vice President, Municipal Bond Research, at
Merrill Lynch. He is responsible for covering the Housing, Student Loan,
and certain High Yield sectors for Institutionals Sales, Trading,
Marketing, Syndicate, Derivatives and interfacing with Branking. In
previous positions with two leading regional firms from 1984 to 1991, he
was the Managing Director for Research and Fixed Income Research
Director, respectively. At Standard & Poor’s from 1980-84, he was a
member of the Housing Ratings group. He received on MBA in 1980 from the
SUNY at Albany. In 1995, he became a C.F.A. Mr. Van Kuller is on the
Board of the Municipal Forum of New York, recently ending a term as
Treasurer. He was Chairman of the Municipal Analysts Group of New York
in 1988-89, and has served on the Board of the National Federation of
Municipal Analysts, including as its first Ethics Committee Chairman.