Lawrence Henry Summers is an American economist who served as the 71st United States Secretary of the Treasury from 1999 to 2001 and as director of the National Economic Council from 2009 to 2010. He also served as president of Harvard University from 2001 to 2006,where he is the Charles W. Eliot University Professor and director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School. In November 2023,Summers joined the board of directors of artificial general intelligence company OpenAI.
Nicholas Gregory Mankiw is an American macroeconomist who is currently the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Mankiw is best known in academia for his work on New Keynesian economics.
Martin Stuart Feldstein was an American economist. He was the George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University and the president emeritus of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He served as president and chief executive officer of the NBER from 1978 to 2008. From 1982 to 1984,Feldstein served as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and as chief economic advisor to President Ronald Reagan. Feldstein was also a member of the Washington-based financial advisory body the Group of Thirty from 2003.
Eugene Benton Sperling is an American lawyer who was director of the National Economic Council and assistant to the president for economic policy under Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. He is the only person to serve as national economic advisor under two presidents. Outside of government,he founded the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution in 2002.
Austan Dean Goolsbee is an American economist and writer. He is the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Goolsbee formerly served as the Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. He was the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers from 2010 to 2011 and a member of President Barack Obama's cabinet. He served as a member of the Chicago Board of Education from 2018 to 2019.
Peter Richard Orszag is an American business executive and former government official. He is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Lazard. Announced as Lazard’s incoming CEO on May 26,2023,he assumed the role on October 1,2023,also joining the board.
Alan Bennett Krueger was an American economist who was the James Madison Professor of Political Economy at Princeton University and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy,nominated by President Barack Obama,from May 2009 to October 2010,when he returned to Princeton. He was nominated in 2011 by Obama as chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers,and served in that office from November 2011 to August 2013.
Jeffrey B. Liebman is an American economist and academic. Since 2014,Liebman has served as director of the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston at Harvard Kennedy School.
Kevin Allen Hassett is an American economist who is a former Senior Advisor and Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Trump administration from 2017 to 2019. He coauthored Dow 36,000,published in 1999,which argued that the stock market was about to have a massive swing upward and would reach 36,000 by 2004. Shortly thereafter,the dot-com bubble burst,causing a massive decline in stock market prices. The Dow did not reach 36,000 until late 2021.
Christina Duckworth Romer is the Class of 1957 Garff B. Wilson Professor of Economics at the University of California,Berkeley and a former chair of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Obama administration. She resigned from her role on the Council of Economic Advisers on September 3,2010.
The President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness,originally the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board (PERAB),was an ad hoc panel of non-governmental experts from business,labor,academia and elsewhere that President of the United States Barack Obama created on February 6,2009. The board reported to Obama and his economic team on possible ways to improve the nation's economy. Obama announced this new board on November 26,2008,and also announced that it would be chaired by former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker with campaign economic adviser Austan Goolsbee as staff director and chief economist.
The Hamilton Project is an economic policy initiative within the Brookings Institution. It was originally launched in April 2006 by a combination of public policy makers,business people,academic leaders,and other former Clinton administration economists and experts. The Hamilton Project "seeks to advance America’s promise of opportunity,prosperity,and growth." It went dormant after U.S. President Barack Obama assumed office in 2009,because many of its members left to work for the White House,but in 2010,it was relaunched with Michael Greenstone as the new director.
Jared Bernstein is an American government official who is the chair of the United States Council of Economic Advisers. He is a senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. From 2009 to 2011,Bernstein was the chief economist and economic adviser to Vice President Joe Biden in the Obama administration. In 2008,Michael D. Shear described Bernstein as a progressive and "a strong advocate for workers".
Lawrence Alan Kudlow is an American conservative broadcast news analyst,economist,columnist,journalist,political commentator,and radio personality. He is a financial news commentator for Fox Business and served as the Director of the National Economic Council during the Trump Administration from 2018 to 2021. He assumed that role after his previous employment as a CNBC television financial news host. By 2024 Kudlow was the vice chair of the board of the America First Policy Institute,a nonprofit think tank developing policies for the second Trump presidency.
Douglas William Elmendorf is an American economist who is the dean and Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. He previously served as the Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) from 2009 to 2015. He was a Brookings Institution senior fellow from 2007 to 2009,and briefly in 2015 following his time at the CBO,and was a director of the Hamilton Project at Brookings.
Donald Baird Marron Jr. is an American economist,professor and policy advisor and director of the nonpartisan Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center in Washington,D.C. He is the son of the economist and financier Donald B. Marron Sr.
Jesse Matthew Furman is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Benjamin H. Harris is an American economist who is currently the Vice President and Director of the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution. Throughout his career,he has served in several public-service positions,most notably as the chief economist and chief economic advisor to Vice President Joe Biden from 2014 until the end of the Obama administration,and as Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy and Chief Economist of the U.S. Treasury. Harris was the executive director of the Kellogg Public-Private Initiative at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University,the Chief Economist to the evidence-based policy organization Results for America,and the founder of the economic policy consulting firm Cherrydale Strategies. He has been a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal and regularly appears on cable television to discuss macroeconomics and public policy.
Jason Eric Bordoff is an American energy policy expert,and a researcher specializing in the intersection of economics,energy,environment,and national security. In April 2021,he was named a Co-Founding Dean of the Columbia Climate School. Since 2013 he has served as the founding director of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs,where he is also a professor of professional practice. From 2009 to 2013 he served in senior roles in the Obama administration on the Council on Environmental Quality,the National Economic Council,and the National Security Council.
