Peter R. Orszag

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Peter R. Orszag, economist, is the Director of the U.S. Congressional Budget Office. He previously served as the Joseph A. Pechman Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of Economic Studies at Brookings, where he directed the Hamilton Project and the Retirement Security Security Project.

He had also previously served as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, and as Senior Economist and Senior Adviser on the Council of Economic Advisers, in the Clinton administration and formed a consulting group Sebago Associates. Orszag has an A.B. summa cum laude in economics from Princeton University, and a Ph.D. in economics from the London School of Economics, which he attended as a Marshall Scholar.

He is the co-editor of American Economic Policy in the 1990s (MIT Press: 2002), co-author of Protecting the American Homeland: A Preliminary Analysis (Brookings Institution Press: 2002), co-author of Saving Social Security: A Balanced Approach (Brookings Institution Press: 2004), co-author of Protecting the Homeland 2006/7 (Brookings Institution Press: 2006), and co-editor of Aging Gracefully: Ideas to Improve Retirement Security in America (Century Foundation Press: 2006).