Austan Goolsbee
| Austan Goolsbee | |
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| Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers | |
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In office September 10, 2010 – August 5, 2011 |
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| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Christina Romer |
| Succeeded by | Alan Krueger |
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| Born |
Austan Dean Goolsbee August 18, 1969 Waco, Texas, United States |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Education |
Yale University (BA, MA) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) |
Austan Dean Goolsbee (born August 18, 1969) is an American economist and the Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. Goolsbee formerly served as the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and was the youngest member of the cabinet of President Barack Obama.
Goolsbee served on the three-member Council from the start of the Obama Administration. He advised President Obama during his 2004 U.S. Senate race and was senior economic policy adviser during the 2008 Obama Presidential Campaign. He took over in September 2010 as the Council's Chairman, replacing Christina Romer, who had left to return to a teaching position at the University of California at Berkeley. On June 6, 2011, he announced that he was departing the administration and returning to the University of Chicago.
Since January 2013 he has been a strategic partner at 32 Advisors. He leads their Economic Intelligence practice.
Goolsbee was born in Waco, Texas, the son of Linda Catherine (née Dean) and Arthur Leon Goolsbee. He was raised primarily in Whittier, California.
He graduated from Milton Academy and received both his B.A. summa cum laude and M.A. in economics from Yale University in 1991 and went on to receive his Ph.D. in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1995. He was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (2000–02) and Fulbright Scholar via the Fulbright Commission Belgium (2006–07).
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