Peter Orszag

Peter Orszag currently serves as director, U.S. Office of Management and Budget, a position that he entered on January 20, 2009, after being nominated by President Obama and confirmed by the U.S Senate. He served as the director of the Congressional Budget Office from January 2007 to December 2008, overseeing the agency’s work in providing objective, nonpartisan, and timely analyses of economic and budgetary issues—supervising the numerous analytical papers and cost estimates that the agency produces and, to present the results, frequently testifying before Congress. In previous government service, Orszag served as special assistant to the President for economic policy and as a staff economist and then senior advisor and senior economist at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. Orszag was the Joseph A. Pechman senior fellow and deputy director of economic studies at the Brookings Institution. While at Brookings, he also served as director of the Hamilton Project, director of the Retirement Security Project, and co-director of the Tax Policy Center, a joint venture with the Urban Institute. He has coauthored or co-edited a number of books, including Protecting the Homeland 2006/7 (2006), Aging Gracefully: Ideas to Improve Retirement Security in America (2006), Saving Social Security: A Balanced Approach (2004), and American Economic Policy in the 1990s (2002). Dr. Orszag is a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies. He graduated summa cum laude in economics from Princeton University and obtained an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the London School of Economics, which he attended as a Marshall scholar.