Douglas Elmendorf

Douglas W. Elmendorf began his tenure as dean and Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School in January 2016. He had been a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution after serving as the director of the Congressional Budget Office from January 2009 through March 2015. Before CBO, he spent two years at Brookings, where he was a senior fellow, the Edward M. Bernstein Scholar, and the director of the Hamilton Project. He was previously an assistant professor at Harvard University, a principal analyst at CBO, a senior economist at the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers, a deputy assistant secretary for economic policy at the Treasury Department, and an assistant director of the Division of Research and Statistics at the Federal Reserve Board. In those positions, Elmendorf worked on budget policy, health care issues, the macroeconomic effects of fiscal policy, Social Security, income security programs, financial markets, macroeconomic analysis and forecasting, and a range of other topics. He earned his PhD and AM in economics from Harvard University, where he was a National Science Foundation graduate fellow, and his AB summa cum laude from Princeton University.

Selected Publications

Academic Journal/Scholarly Articles

• Elmendorf, Douglas W., and Louise Sheiner. "Federal Budget Policy with an Aging Population and Persistently Low Interest Rates." Hutchins Center Working Papers (October 2016).
• Elmendorf, Douglas. "Designing Federal Budget Policy to Spur Economic Growth." The Brookings Institution (October 13, 2015).
• Elmendorf, Douglas. "Dynamic Scoring: Why and How to Include Macroeconomic Effects in Budget Estimates for Legislative Proposals." Brookings Institution: Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (September 2015).

Commentary

• Elmendorf, Douglas. "Letter to Congressional Leaders." Harvard Kennedy School of Government, July 21, 2017.
• Elmendorf, Douglas. "The Republican Health Care Debacle: How Not to Make Public Policy." Foreign Affairs, May 24, 2017.
• Elmendorf, Douglas. "A Fairer Approach to Fiscal Reform." The Washington Post, October 11, 2015.

Outside Professional Activities

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Outside Professional Activities For Douglas Elmendorf

• The Hamilton Project ( http://www.hamiltonproject.org/), Member of Advisory Council
• National Bureau of Economic Research ( http://www.nber.org/ ), Research Associate
• The Trilateral Commision ( http://trilateral.org/), Member
• Results for America ( http://results4america.org/), Moneyball for Government Advisor
• National Economic Education Delegation (http://needdelegation.org/), Honorary Board Member