Ben Harris (economist)

Ben Harris
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy
In office
November 15, 2021 – March 30, 2023
PresidentJoe Biden
Preceded byMichael Faulkender
Succeeded byVacant
Personal details
Political partyDemocratic
SpouseJessica Lynn
EducationTufts University (BA)
Fulbright Scholar (Namibia)
Columbia University (MA)
Cornell University (MA)
George Washington University (MPhil, PhD)

Benjamin H. Harris is an American economist who is currently the Vice President and Director of the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution.[1][2] 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,[3] the Chief Economist to the evidence-based policy organization Results for America,[4] and the founder of the economic policy consulting firm Cherrydale Strategies.[5] He has been a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal[6] and regularly appears on cable television to discuss macroeconomics[7] and public policy.[8]

Harris remained a close adviser to Joe Biden following the end of the Obama administration, serving as the chief editor of the Biden Forum [9][2] and as the economic adviser to the former vice president throughout his 2020 presidential campaign.[10][11][12] In a feature article, the New York Times dubbed him the “Quiet Architect of Biden’s Plan to Rescue the Economy.”[13]

  1. ^ "Brookings Institution announces Ben Harris as Vice President and Director of Economic Studies". Brookings Institution. Retrieved September 12, 2023.
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  3. ^ "Ben Harris - Faculty - Kellogg School of Management". www.kellogg.northwestern.edu. Archived from the original on August 27, 2019. Retrieved October 29, 2017.
  4. ^ "Ben Harris Joins Results for America as Chief Economist and Senior Advisor - Results for America". Results for America. July 6, 2017. Retrieved October 30, 2017.
  5. ^ "About". Cherrydale Strategies. Archived from the original on August 29, 2019. Retrieved August 29, 2019.
  6. ^ "Benjamin Harris". WSJ.com. Retrieved August 29, 2019.
  7. ^ "Not surprised by Moody's negative U.S. outlook, former economic advisor to Biden says". CNBC. November 14, 2023. Retrieved February 8, 2024.
  8. ^ Ben Harris on Biden Forming Debt Ceiling Working Group, July 24, 2023, retrieved February 8, 2024
  9. ^ "Staff -Biden Foundation - A new stage of public service". Biden Foundation. Archived from the original on August 29, 2019. Retrieved August 29, 2019.
  10. ^ Yglesias, Matthew (December 18, 2018). "Joe Biden is leading the 2020 polls. Here's what he thinks about policy". Vox. Retrieved August 29, 2019.
  11. ^ Burns, Alexander; Goldmacher, Shane; Glueck, Katie (April 25, 2020). "A Candidate in Isolation: Inside Joe Biden's Cloistered Campaign". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved May 22, 2020.
  12. ^ Tankersley, Jim (November 2, 2020). "The Quiet Architect of Biden's Plan to Rescue the Economy". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved November 2, 2020.
  13. ^ "The Quiet Architect of Biden´s Plan to Rescue the Economy". The New York Times. Retrieved February 8, 2024.