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Vice President and Director

William G. Gale

William G. Gale

Vice President and Director, Economic Studies
Director, Retirement Security Project
Co-director, Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center
Arjay and Frances Miller Chair in Federal Economic Policy

Bill Gale, a Brookings vice president and director of the Economic Studies Program, is an expert on tax policy, fiscal issues, pensions, and saving behavior. He is also co-director of the Tax Policy Center and director of the Retirement Security Project.



Expertise

Budget and fiscal policy; public and private pensions; saving behavior; tax policy; transfers of wealth between generations

Background

Past Positions
Joseph A. Pechman Fellow, Brookings (1992-2001); Senior Staff Economist, President's Council of Economic Advisers (1991-92); Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles (1987-91)

Education

Ph.D., Stanford University, 1987; B.A., Duke University, 1981


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