NYU Wagner

Jason Furman is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution where he is Director of the Hamilton Project.  Furman is also a Visiting Scholar at New York University's Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.  Previously Furman served as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy in the Clinton Administration. Furman has been a visiting lecturer at Columbia and Yale Universities. In addition, he served as a Staff Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers, Senior Economic Adviser to the Chief Economist of the World Bank, and Director of Economic Policy for the Kerry-Edwards campaign. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.