President Bush Taps NBER Economists for CEA
President Bush has nominated two more NBER researchers to become members of his Council of Economic Advisers. Harvey S. Rosen and Kristin Forbes will be joining N. Gregory Mankiw, a Harvard economics professor and NBER Research Associate, who is CEA Chairman.
Rosen, an NBER Research Associate and professor of economics at Princeton University, was nominated in April. He holds a PhD from Harvard University and served as deputy assistant secretary for tax analysis in the administration of George H. W. Bush.
Forbes, an NBER Faculty Research Fellow and professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management, was nominated in May. She has also served as deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury Department in the current Bush Administration.
NBER Research Associate Andrew A. Samwick, a member of the economics faculty at Dartmouth College, is the CEA's Chief Economist.