Andrew Samwick
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Andrew Alan Samwick served as Chief Economist on the Staff of the United States President's Council of Economic Advisors from July 2003 to July 2004. Professor Samwick is currently a faculty member of Dartmouth College (since 1994) and the director of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences. He has also held teaching positions at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business.
He received an A.B. summa cum laude and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa in Economics at Harvard College in 1989. He received his Ph.D. in Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1993; at MIT he was the recipient of several grants and fellowships including: the National Institute on Aging, Pre-doctoral Training Grant (1992 - 1993), the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Fellowship (1992 – 1993) and the National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship (1989 – 1992).
Professor Samwick has consulted for the Canadian government, the U.S. Social Security Administration, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, and the World Bank. Professor Samwick has also offered Congressional testimony on Social Security and retirement issues.
Research: He is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and the co-organizer of its Social Security Working Group. His research interests include: Finance, Macroeconomics, Social Security, Saving, and Taxation. His work has appeared in The American Economic Review, The Journal of Political Economy and The Journal of Finance among others.
Awards: In 2000, Professor Samwick was the recipient of Dartmouth's Karen E. Wetterhahn Award for Distinguished Creative or Scholarly Achievement.
