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.
Alice Mitchell Rivlin was an American economist and budget official. She served as the 16th vice chair of the Federal Reserve from 1996 to 1999. Before her appointment to the Federal Reserve,Rivlin was named director of the Office of Management and Budget in the Clinton administration from 1994 to 1996. Prior to that,she was instrumental in the establishment of the Congressional Budget Office and became its founding director from 1975 to 1983. A member of the Democratic Party,Rivlin was the first woman to hold either of those posts.
Kristin J. Forbes is an American macroeconomist and policy adviser currently serving as the Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Professor of Management and Global Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She was formerly a member of the White House Council of Economic Advisers,and an external member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England. Forbes' research focuses on international macroeconomics,monetary economics,and macroprudential policy. Alongside her academic appointments,she sits on advisory boards to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York,International Monetary Fund,and Bank for International Settlements.
Lael Brainard is an American economist serving as the 14th director of the National Economic Council since February 21,2023. She previously served as the 22nd vice chair of the Federal Reserve between May 2022 and February 2023. Prior to her term as vice chair,Brainard served as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors,taking office in 2014. Before her appointment to the Federal Reserve,she served as the under secretary of the treasury for international affairs from 2010 to 2013.
Jason Furman is an American economist and professor at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and a nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. On June 10,2013,Furman was named by President Barack Obama as chair of the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA). Furman has also served as the deputy director of the U.S. National Economic Council,which followed his role as an advisor for the Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign.
Alicia Haydock Munnell is an American economist who is the Peter F. Drucker Professor of Management Sciences at Boston College's Carroll School of Management. Educated at Wellesley College,Boston University,and Harvard University,Munnell spent 20 years as an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston,where she researched wealth,savings,and retirement among American workers. She served in the Bill Clinton administration as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and as a member of the Council of Economic Advisers. Since 1997 she has been a professor at Boston College and director of its Center for Retirement Research,where she writes on retirement income policy.
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.
David Hibbard Romer is an American economist,the Herman Royer Professor of Political Economy at the University of California,Berkeley,and the author of a standard textbook in graduate macroeconomics as well as many influential economic papers,particularly in the area of New Keynesian economics. He is also the husband and close collaborator of Council of Economic Advisers former Chairwoman Christina Romer.
George L. Perry is an American economist,currently a Senior Fellow emeritus at the Brookings Institution. In 1970,he and Arthur Okun founded the Brookings Panel and its journal,the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (BPEA). They conceived the Panel as a way to apply rigorous economic research to current economic puzzles,problems and policy issues. After Okun's death in 1980,William Brainard replaced him and Brainard and Perry ran the Panel and edited BPEA until 2007.
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.
Sarah Bloom Raskin is an American attorney and financial markets policymaker who served as the 13th United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury from 2014 to 2017. Raskin previously served as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors from 2010 to 2014. She also was Maryland Commissioner of Financial Regulation. She was a Rubenstein Fellow at Duke University. She is currently the Colin W. Brown Distinguished Professor of the Practice of Law at Duke Law School. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Duke Center on Risk. She also serves as a Partner at Kaya Partners,Ltd.,a climate advisory firm.
Betsey Ayer Stevenson is an economist and Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Michigan Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Additionally,she is a fellow of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research in Munich,a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and servers on the board of the American Economic Association. The Obama Administration announced her appointment as a Member of the Council of Economic Advisers,a post she served from 2013 through 2015. She previously served as Chief Economist of the U.S. Department of Labor under Secretary Hilda Solis from 2010 to 2011. Previously,she was an Assistant Professor of Business and Public Policy,at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Phillip Lee "Phill" Swagel is an American economist who is currently the director of the Congressional Budget Office. As Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy from 2006 to 2009,he played an important role in the Troubled Asset Relief Program that was part of the U.S. government's response to the financial crisis of 2007–08. He was recently a Professor in International Economics at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy,a non-resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute,senior fellow at the Milken Institute,and co-chair of the Bipartisan Policy Center's Financial Regulatory Reform Initiative.
Janice Caryl "Jan" Eberly is an American economist. Since 2002 she has been the James R. and Helen D. Russell Distinguished Professor of Finance at the Kellogg School of Management of Northwestern University. She served from 2011 to 2013 as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and chief economist of the United States Department of the Treasury. She was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2013. Her research focuses on the intersection of macroeconomics and finance.
Francis Michel Bator was a Hungarian-American economist and educator. He was a professor emeritus at Harvard Kennedy School of political economy. He was born in Budapest,Hungary. Bator attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and earned a Ph.D. in 1956. He was Deputy National Security Advisor of the United States from 1965 to 1967. He was also a Special Assistant to President Lyndon B. Johnson.
D. Nathan Sheets is an American economist and government official who served as Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs from 2014 to 2017. He has been Global Chief Economist at Citigroup since October 2021.
Lisa DeNell Cook is an American economist who has served as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors since May 23,2022. She is the first African American woman and first woman of color to sit on the Board. Before her appointment to the Federal Reserve,she was elected to the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
Jean Nellie Liang is an economist who currently serves as President Joe Biden's Under Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance.
Yu-Chin Chen is an economist and researcher at the University of Washington. Her research fields include international finance,macroeconomics,open economy macroeconomics,trade and development,and applied economics. She has served as a staff economist for the Clinton administration and is currently an economics professor at the University of Washington. Classes she teaches include Macroeconomic Analysis,International Financial Monetary Economics,and Computational Finance and Financial Econometrics.
Karen M. Pence is an American economist who is Deputy Associate Director of the Research and Statistics Division of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors,responsible for the Survey of Consumer Finances,and former Chair of the Board of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. She is a past president of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association.
