Maya MacGuineas

Maya Carol MacGuineas
Maya MacGuineas on Hoover Institution panel on carbon tax, Marc 29, 2017
Born	(1968-02-21) February 21, 1968 (age 49) Washington, D.C., USA
Education	B.A. Northwestern University, M.P.P. Harvard University
Occupation	Policy Policy Organization President
Spouse(s)	Robin Jermyn Brooks
Children	William (2004), Annika (2006)
Website	http://crfb.org/staff-members

Maya MacGuineas (born in February 21, 1968 in Washington, DC) is the President of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget—a bipartisan, non-profit organization in the United States committed to educating the public about issues that have significant fiscal policy impact. A native Washingtonian, she obtained a Master in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.

Born in Washington in 1968 to D. Biard MacGuineas and Carol Kalish. She graduated from Northwestern University, where she majored in economics and psychology, and she received a master's degree in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

MacGuineas has run the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget since 2003, and works mainly on issues related to fiscal, tax, economic, and retirement policy. Senator Mark Warner called her "a trusted intermediary" as she has worked with Democratic and Republican lawmakers. She has also been called "an obsessively nonpartisan, data-driven, well-connected champion of...fiscal responsibility."

She has also published a number of articles, including in The Atlantic Monthly, The Washington Post, The New York Times, the Financial Times and the Los Angeles Times. Once dubbed "an anti-deficit warrior" by The Wall Street Journal and "queen of the deficit scolds" by economist Paul Krugman, MacGuineas has appeared on broadcast news and is often cited by the national press. She also is a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal 'Think Tank' feature.

MacGuineas also served on The Washington Post editorial board in the Spring of 2009, where she covered economic and fiscal policy and wrote extensively on the health care reform debate.

She was the Director of the Fiscal Policy Program at the New America Foundation—a nonpartisan think tank based in Washington, DC.