Joseph Eugene Stiglitz is an American New Keynesian economist,a public policy analyst,and a full professor at Columbia University. He is a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2001) and the John Bates Clark Medal (1979). He is a former senior vice president and chief economist of the World Bank. He is also a former member and chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. He is known for his support for the Georgist public finance theory and for his critical view of the management of globalization,of laissez-faire economists,and of international institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
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.
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 of Lazard.
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 has written several books and coauthored Dow 36,000,published in 1999,which argued that the stock market was about to have a massive swing upward. Shortly thereafter,the dot-com bubble burst,causing a massive decline in stock market prices,though the Dow was soon to recover. It finally did reach 36,000 as the Covid pandemic receded in 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 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 economist 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".
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.
Karen Dynan is an American economist who is Professor of the Practice of Economics at Harvard University and a Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. She previously served as the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and Chief Economist of the United States Department of the Treasury,having been nominated to that position by President Barack Obama in August 2013 and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in June 2014. From 2009 to 2013,Dr. Dynan was the Vice President and Co-director of the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution. Prior to joining Brookings,she served on the staff of the Federal Reserve Board for 17 years. Dr. Dynan is an expert on macroeconomic policy,consumer behavior,household finance,and housing policy.
Oren M. Cass is an American public policy commentator and political advisor,who worked on the presidential campaigns of Mitt Romney in 2008 and 2012,and who has been described as a "general policy impresario of the emerging conservative consensus on fighting poverty". Between 2015 and 2019,Cass was a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research,and the author of The Once and Future Worker:A Vision for the Renewal of Work in America. In 2020,Cass established American Compass,an organization focusing on "what the post-Trump right-of-center is going to be".
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.
