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Douglas Holtz-Eakin

President, American Action Forum

Douglas Holtz-Eakin has a distinguished record as a researcher and policy adviser. Currently he is the President of the American Action Forum. In 2001 and 2002 he was Chief Economist for the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. He was the 6th Director of the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) from 2003 to 2005 and then became Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies and the Paul A. Volcker Chair in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. During 2007 and 2008, he was Director of Domestic and Economic Policy for the John McCain presidential campaign. Dr. Holtz-Eakin was a Commissioner on the Congressionally-chartered Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, serves on the Boards of the Tax Foundation and National Academy of Social Insurance, and is a member of the Aspen Economic Strategy Group.