Peter R. Orszag

Peter R. Orszag (born December 16, 1968) is an American economist and is the Director of the U.S. Congressional Budget Office. The Director of CBO oversees 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 the Congress. In managing the agency, the Director is responsible for a staff of 235 people and an annual budget of roughly $40 million.

Orszag began his term as the seventh Director of CBO on January 18, 2007. After graduating from Phillips Exeter, he 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 Project.

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, which merged into Competition Policy Associates and was bought by FTI Consulting Inc.

Orszag 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.

External links

* [http://www.cbo.gov/aboutcbo/organization/od.htm Orszag's bio on CBO website]
* [http://cboblog.cbo.gov Orszag's blog] .