James Alfred (Jim) Guest[1] (born December 25, 1940) is an American lawyer, consumer advocate, and politician. From 2001 to 2014, Guest was the president and chief executive officer of Consumer Reports, a position he was appointed to after serving as Chairman of the Board of the Consumers Union from 1976 to 1994, with 21 of those 22 years as chair.
Guest, a Democrat, unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. Senate in 1982 and the U.S. House of Representatives in 1988.[2]
- ^ 2012 Bioscience symposium: Speaker Information: James Alfred (Jim) Guest, Amherst College (accessed January 9, 2016).
- ^ Secretary of State James A. Guest, 1977-1981 Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, Vermont State Archives.