Maya MacGuineas

Maya Carol MacGuineas
Born February 21, 1968
Washington, D.C., USA
Education B.A. Northwestern University, M.P.P. Harvard University[1]
Occupation Policy Analyst
Spouse(s) Robin Jermyn Brooks [2]
Children William (2004), Annika (2006)[3]
Website
http://crfb.org/about/staff

Maya MacGuineas (born in February 21, 1968 in Washington, DC) is the President of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget—a bipartisan, non-profit organization in the United States committed to educating the public about issues that have significant fiscal policy impact. A native Washingtonian, she obtained a Master in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.

She serves on the boards of a number of national, nonpartisan organizations.

Background

Education

Born in Washington in 1968 to D. Biard MacGuineas and Carol Kalish,[2] MacGuineas attended the National Cathedral School. She graduated from Northwestern University, where she majored in economics and psychology, and she received a Master degree in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.[3]

Professional career

MacGuineas has run the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget since 2003, and works mainly on issues related to fiscal, tax, economic, and retirement policy. She has also published a number of articles, including in The Atlantic Monthly, The Washington Post, The New York Times, the Financial Times and the Los Angeles Times. Once dubbed "an anti-deficit warrior" by The Wall Street Journal[4] and "queen of the deficit scolds" by economist Paul Krugman,[5] MacGuineas has appeared on broadcast news and is often cited by the national press.

MacGuineas also served on The Washington Post editorial board in the Spring of 2009, where she covered economic and fiscal policy and wrote extensively on the health care reform debate.

She was the Director of the Fiscal Policy Program at the New America Foundation—a nonpartisan think tank based in Washington, DC.[6]

Before joining the New America Foundation,[7] MacGuineas worked at the Brookings Institution, the Concord Coalition, and on Wall Street. She has also advised numerous candidates for office from both parties, and works regularly with members of United States Congress on health, economic, tax, and budget policy.

MacGuineas served as a member of the Debt Reduction Task Force at the Bipartisan Policy Center.[8]

Publications

References

  1. "Washington Life Magazine - March 2002 - Washington Weddings". Washingtonlife.com. Retrieved 29 March 2011.
  2. 2.0 2.1 "WEDDINGS; Maya MacGuineas, Robin Brooks". The New York Times. 13 January 2002. Retrieved 29 March 2011.
  3. 3.0 3.1 "Budget panel president's 'exhausting' dream job". Washington Times. 13 December 2009. Retrieved 29 March 2011.
  4. Izzo, Phil (1 June 2009). "Secondary Sources: Health Care, Reich on GM, Borrowing - Real Time Economics". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 29 March 2011.
  5. Paul Krugman (22 December 2012), Maya and the Vigilantes The New York Times
  6. "Maya MacGuineas". NewAmerica.net. Retrieved 29 March 2011.
  7. Morin, Richard; Deane, Claudia (10 December 2001). "Big Thinker. Ted Halstead’s New America Foundation Has It All: Money, Brains and Buzz". The Washington Post, Style section, p. 1.
  8. "Debt Reduction Task Force Members"

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