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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

"The thing about taxes is we will have to do something in the first 2 years of the next administration. We will either let the tax cuts expire, we'll extend them, or we'll change the tax system around."

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