Phillip Swagel

Phillip Swagel
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy
In office December 11, 2006 – January 20, 2009
President	George W. Bush
Preceded by	Mark Warshawsky
Succeeded by	Alan B. Krueger
Personal details
Born	1965/1966 (age 50–51)
Alma mater	Princeton University Harvard University

Phillip Lee "Phill" Swagel (born 1965/1966) is an American economist and former official in the United States government. As Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy from 2006 to 2009, he played an important role in the Troubled Asset Relief Program that was part of the U.S. government's response to the financial crisis of 2007–08. He is currently a Professor in International Economics at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, a non-resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, senior fellow at the Milken Institute, and co-chair of the Bipartisan Policy Center's Financial Regulatory Reform Initiative.

Educated at Princeton University and Harvard University, Swagel has taught economics at Northwestern University, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business, in addition to Maryland. He has also worked at the Federal Reserve, the International Monetary Fund, and the White House Council of Economic Advisors.

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