Ted Gayer | |
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President of the Niskanen Center | |
Assumed office August 1, 2022 | |
Preceded by | Joey Coon (acting) |
President of the Brookings Institution | |
Acting | |
In office June 8,2022 –July 7,2022* | |
Preceded by | John R. Allen |
Succeeded by | Amy Liu (Acting) |
Personal details | |
Born | May 8,1970 |
Education | Emory University (BA) Duke University (MA,PhD) |
*Allen was placed on leave from June 8,2022 –June 12,2022 | |
Ted Gayer (born May 8,1970) is an American economist who is currently President of the Niskanen Center. [1] He was formerly an executive vice president at the Brookings Institution,where he was also Director of the Economic Studies Program,and the Joseph A. Pechman Senior Fellow. [2] On June 12,2022,Gayer was appointed acting president of the Brookings Institution following the resignation of John R. Allen that same day. [3]
Gayer received a BA in mathematics and economics from Emory University in 1992,and a PhD in economics from Duke University in 1997. [4] He was an assistant professor of public policy at Georgetown University from 1997 to 2004,and an associate professor of public policy at Georgetown from 2004 to 2009. [4]
He served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Microeconomic Analysis at the Treasury Department from 2007 to 2008,and was a senior economist on the Council of Economic Advisers from 2003 to 2004. [4] He was a member of the EPA’s Science Advisory Board from 2004 to 2009,and was appointed a member of the EPA’s Superfund Benefits Analysis Advisory Committee in 2005. [4] He was appointed an expert evaluator of the natural resources management indicator for the Millennium Challenge Corporation in 2005. [4]
From 1999 to 2001,Gayer was a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research at the University of California,Berkeley. [4] In the summer of 2006,he was a Lone Mountain Fellow at the Property and Environment Research Center. [4] From 2006 to 2007 he was a visiting fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California,and from 2004 to 2006 he was a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. [4]
His work has been published in the Review of Economics and Statistics , Science ,the Journal of Economic Literature ,the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty ,the Journal of Human Resources ,the Journal of Regulatory Economics , Regulation ,and other journals. He also co-edited (with W. Kip Viscusi) the two-volume Classics in Risk Management and co-authored (with Harvey Rosen) the 8th and 9th editions of the textbook Public Finance. [4]
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