Doug Elmendorf | |
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Dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government | |
Assumed office January 1, 2016 | |
Preceded by | David T. Ellwood |
8th Director of the Congressional Budget Office | |
In office January 22, 2009 – March 31, 2015 | |
Preceded by | Peter R. Orszag |
Succeeded by | Keith Hall |
Personal details | |
Born | Douglas William Elmendorf April 16, 1962 Poughkeepsie, New York, U.S. |
Political party | Democratic |
Spouse | Karen Dynan |
Education | Princeton University (BA) Harvard University (MA, PhD) |
Academic career | |
Doctoral advisor | Martin Feldstein |
Douglas William Elmendorf (born April 16, 1962) 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.[1] 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.[2]