Peter R. Orszag
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Peter R. Orszag is an American economist and is the Director of the U.S. Congressional Budget Office. Peter R. Orszag is the seventh Director of the CBO; his four-year term began on January 18, 2007.
After graduating from Phillips Exeter, Orszag received an A.B. summa cum laude in economics from Princeton University, and a Ph.D. in economics from the London School of Economics, the latter of which he attended as a Marshall Scholar.
Orszag 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. [1]
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 during the Clinton administration. He also formed a consulting group called Sebago Associates.
He was 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).
He lives in Washington, D.C. with his two children, Leila and Joshua.
