Jason Furman
| Jason Furman | |
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| Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers | |
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In office August 2, 2013 – January 20, 2017 |
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| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Alan Krueger |
| Succeeded by | Vacant |
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| Born |
August 18, 1970 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Eve Gerber |
| Children | 3 |
| Education |
Harvard University (BA, MA, PhD) London School of Economics (MS) |
Jason Furman (born August 18, 1970) is an American economist and Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. On June 10, 2013, Furman was named by President Barack Obama as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA). Previously, since January 28, 2009, Furman had served as the Deputy Director of the National Economic Council, which followed his role as an advisor to candidate Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign. Furman's research and policy focus includes the subjects of taxes, health care, macroeconomic policy, competition and inequality, technology policy, and the U.S. Social Security program.
Born and raised in New York City, Furman is the son of Jay Furman, a real-estate and shopping mall developer, and Gail Furman, a child psychologist.
Furman graduated from the Dalton School in 1988. In 1992, he graduated with a B.A. in social studies from Harvard, where his freshman year roommate was Matt Damon. He then received an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics. Furman returned to Harvard, where he received an M.A. in government in 1995 and a Ph.D. in economics in 2004. His Ph.D. thesis advisor was N. Gregory Mankiw, who had once also served as chairman of the CEA, during the administration of George W. Bush.
In 1996, while he was a graduate student at Harvard Department of Economics, Furman was hired by economist Joseph Stiglitz to serve a one-year stint as a staff economist for the Council of Economic Advisers. He later worked with Stiglitz at the World Bank before joining the National Economic Council as a Special Assistant to the President during the Clinton Administration. Furman was involved to varying degrees with the Presidential campaigns of Al Gore and Wesley Clark, along with his wife, Eve Gerber, who also contributed as a speechwriter for Clark. In 2004, he took a position as Director of Economic Policy for the 2004 Kerry presidential campaign. At the outset of the election, Furman joined the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) where he was credited with helping defeat the privatization of Social Security proposed by the George W. Bush administration.
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