Leonard Burman
| Leonard Burman | |
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| Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Analysis | |
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In office 1998–2000 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
Leonard E. Burman 1953 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Spouse(s) | Melissa Burman |
| Alma mater |
Wesleyan University University of Minnesota |
| Profession |
Academic Economist |
Leonard "Len" E. Burman (born 1953, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a nationally recognized economist, tax policy expert, and writer who currently serves as the Robert C. Pozen Director of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, and the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Professor of Public Affairs at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.
Born in Philadelphia, PA, Burman graduated Northeast High School in Philadelphia, PA, in 1971. He received an A.B. in Economics from Wesleyan University in 1975 and received a Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Minnesota in 1985.
Prior to graduate school, Burman was an economist with Data Resources, Inc. from 1975 to 1978. He served as an economics instructor at Bates College from 1983 to 1985 before beginning his career in Washington.
Burman began his career in Washington by taking a two-year leave from teaching at Bates College to work as a financial economist with the Department of Tax Analysis at the U.S. Department of Treasury. During his time at Treasury, Burman worked on the design and implementation of the Tax Reform Act of 1986. After leaving Treasury in 1988, Burman served for over a decade as a senior economic analyst at the Congressional Budget Office writing reports on tax policy issues including the low-income housing credit, health reform, tax incentives for health and retirement, and the capital gains tax.
The Clinton administration brought Burman back to Treasury in 1998 to become the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Analysis, serving as the administration’s top tax economist. Burman served in this post for two years.
In 2000, Burman left the Clinton administration to become a senior fellow at the Urban Institute.
In 2002, Burman, along with other tax experts from the Reagan, Clinton, and Bush administrations, founded the Tax Policy Center as a joint venture of the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute. Burman served as the inaugural director of the Tax Policy Center until 2009 and provided guidance on tax policy issues and proposals as a resident expert. The current director of the Tax Policy Center is Donald Marron.
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