Alice M. Rivlin

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Director, Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform | Senior Fellow, Economic Studies | Leonard D. Schaeffer Chair in Health Policy Studies

Alice M. Rivlin is a senior fellow in the Economic Studies Program at Brookings, a visiting professor at the Public Policy Institute of Georgetown University and the director of the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform. She recently served as a member of the President’s Debt Commission, was founding director of CBO, served as OMB director and was Federal Reserve Vice Chair. She is an expert on fiscal and monetary policy and the recipient of the 2013 Robert M. Ball Award for Outstanding Achievements in Social Insurance, awarded by the National Academy of Social Insurance.

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Expertise

  • U.S. federal budget
  • fiscal and monetary policy
  • social policy
  • urban issues

Experience

Current Positions

  • Co-Chair, Debt Reduction Task Force, Bipartisan Policy Center
  • Co-Leader, Health Care Cost Containment Initiative, Bipartisan Policy Center
  • Visiting Professor, Public Policy Institute, Georgetown University

Past Positions

  • Henry Cohen Professor, Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy, New School University (2001-2003)
  • Chair, District of Columbia Financial Management Assistance Authority (1998-2001)
  • Vice Chair, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System (1996-99)
  • Director, White House Office of Management and Budget (1994-96)
  • Deputy Director, White House Office of Management and Budget (1993-94)
  • Recipient, MacArthur Foundation Prize Fellowship (1983)
  • Hirst Professor of Public Policy, George Mason University
  • Director of Economic Studies, Brookings Institution
  • Founding Director, Congressional Budget Office (1975-83)
  • Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (1968-69)
  • President, American Economic Association

Education

  • Ph.D. (1958), M.A. (1955), Radcliffe College, Harvard University
  • B.A., Bryn Mawr College, 1952

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