National Economic Council Principal Deputy Director Jason Furman on "Winning the Future"

On Tuesday, February 22, NDN and the New Policy Institute hosted Jason Furman, Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and the Principal Deputy Director of the National Economic Council, for an important discussion of the Obama Administration’s economic strategy. The conversation focused on President Obama’s budget and efforts to "Win the Future" in the competitive, global economy of the 21st century.

Jason Furman, Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Principal Deputy Director of the National Economic Council

Jason Furman is an Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and the Principal Deputy Director of the National Economic Council.  Furman took leave from the Brookings Institution to become the Economic Policy Director of Obama for America, where he helped develop and communicate the campaign’s policies.  He was a Senior Fellow in Economic Studies and Director of the Hamilton Project at Brookings. He began his career in public service during the Clinton administration, as a Staff Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers and subsequently a Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy at the National Economic Council. In addition, he was a Senior Adviser to the Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank. Furman has also worked on research and in academia as a Visiting Scholar at NYU’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, as a visiting lecturer at Yale and Columbia Universities, as a Senior Fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and at the Brookings Institution. He has conducted research in a wide range of areas, including fiscal policy, tax policy, health economics, Social Security, and monetary policy. Published in a variety of scholarly journals and popular publications, he recently edited two economic policy books. Furman earned his Ph.D. in economics and a M.A. in government from Harvard University and an M.Sc. in economics from the London School of Economics. He is married with two young children.

Event Date: 
Tuesday, February 22, 2011 - 7:00am

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Winner the future? I think this is not a serious topic.

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