Keynote Speaker
2007 Academy Spring Meeting
 Congressional Budget Office Director Peter Orszag will be the keynote speaker at the Academy Spring Meeting March 28.
As director of CBO, Orszag heads the agency that produces economic and budget projections, legislative cost estimates, and policy analyses that Congress uses to make decisions about spending and revenue in a $2.5 trillion budget. Congress depends on CBO to help sort through the maze of programs competing for funds and to provide a much-needed "reality check" for partisan advocacy.
Before joining CBO, Orszag was a senior fellow and Deputy Director of Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution, director of the Retirement Security Project, and Codirector of the Tax Policy Center, a joint venture with the Urban Institute providing analysis of tax issues. He is also a former special assistant to the president for economic policy during the Clinton administration, and a former senior economic adviser at the National Economic Council.
Orszag graduated summa cum laude in economics from Princeton and received an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in economics from the London School of Economics. He has coauthored a number of books, including Protecting the Homeland, Aging Gracefully: Ideas to Improve Retirement Security in America, and Saving Social Security: A Balanced Approach. His main areas of research have included pensions, Social Security, budget policy, higher education policy, homeland security, macroeconomics, and tax policy. In 2001, he spoke at an Academy Capitol Hill briefing on Social Security reform. |
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