Peter R. Orszag
| Peter Orszag | |
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| Director of the Office of Management and Budget | |
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In office January 20, 2009 – July 30, 2010 |
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| President | Barack Obama |
| Deputy |
Rob Nabors Jeffrey Liebman (Acting) |
| Preceded by | Jim Nussle |
| Succeeded by | Jeff Zients (Acting) |
| Director of the Congressional Budget Office | |
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In office January 18, 2007 – November 25, 2008 |
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| Preceded by | Donald Marron (Acting) |
| Succeeded by | Robert A. Sunshine (Acting) |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Peter Richard Orszag December 16, 1968 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Cameron Hamill (Divorced 2006) Bianna Golodryga (2010–present) |
| Children | 4 |
| Education |
Princeton University (BA) London School of Economics (MS, PhD) |
Peter Richard Orszag (/ˈɔːrzæɡ/; born December 16, 1968) is an American banker and economist, and a Vice Chairman of investment banking and Managing Director at Lazard, where he also serves as Global Co-Head of Healthcare. He is also a columnist at Bloomberg View and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.
Orszag previously served as a Vice Chairman of Corporate and Investment Banking and Chairman of the Financial Strategy and Solutions Group at Citigroup. Before joining Citigroup, he was a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a contributing columnist for the New York Times Op-Ed page. Prior to that, he was the 37th Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Barack Obama and had also served as the Director of the Congressional Budget Office.
Orszag is a member of the National Academy of Medicine of the National Academies of Sciences. He serves on the Boards of Directors of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, the Mt. Sinai Hospital, the Russell Sage Foundation, New Visions for Public Schools in New York, and Ideas42.
Orszag grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts, the son of Reba (née Karp) and Steven Orszag. His father was a math professor at Yale University and his mother was the president and owner of a research and development company. After graduating from Phillips Exeter Academy with high honors (1987), he earned an A.B. summa cum laude in economics from Princeton University in 1991, and a M.Sc. (1992) and a Ph.D. (1997) in economics from the London School of Economics. He was a Marshall Scholar 1991–1992, and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
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