Dr. Peter Orszag will present the 25th Annual SGE Distinguished Lecture at the 2008 AEA meetings in New Orleans
Please join us on Saturday, January 5 at 2:30 p.m. in New Orleans to hear Dr. Peter Orzsag, Director, Congressional Budget Office, present the 25th Annual SGE Distinguished Lecture.
Bio:
Peter R. Orszag is the seventh Director of CBO. His four-year term began on January 18, 2007.
Before joining CBO, Dr. Orszag was the Joseph A. Pechman Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution. While at Brookings, he also served as Director of The Hamilton Project; Director of the Retirement Security Project; and Codirector of the Tax Policy Center, a joint venture with the Urban Institute.
In previous government service, Dr. Orszag served as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Senior Economic Adviser at the National Economic Council during 1997 and 1998. Earlier, he served as a staff economist and then Senior Adviser and Senior Economist at the President's Council of Economic Advisers.
Dr. Orszag graduated summa cum laude in economics from Princeton University and obtained an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in economics from the London School of Economics, which he attended as a Marshall scholar. He has coauthored or coedited a number of books, including Protecting the Homeland 2006/7 (2006), Aging Gracefully: Ideas to Improve Retirement Security in America (2006), Saving Social Security: A Balanced Approach (2004), and American Economic Policy in the 1990s (2002).
Dr. Orszag is an avid runner and the proud father of two children, Leila and Joshua.