Jason Furman (born 1970) is an economist. On January 28, 2009, Furman was named Deputy Director of the National Economic Council in the administration of President Barack Obama, whom he'd been advising since the latter stages of the 2008 presidential campaign. He has been widely criticized in the past.[1]
Life and career [edit]
Furman's research and policy focus includes the subjects of taxes, health care, and the U.S. Social Security program. Furman's qualified defense of Wal-Mart's business model provoked criticism from some labor organizations when he joined Obama's 2008 campaign.
Furman graduated from The Dalton School in 1988. In 1996, while he was a graduate student at Harvard, Furman was hired by economist Joseph Stiglitz to serve a one-year stint as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy in the Clinton Administration and on staff of the Council of Economic Advisers. He later worked with Stiglitz at the World Bank. Furman was involved to varying degrees with the Presidential campaigns of Al Gore and General Wesley Clark. In 2004, he took a position as Director of Economic Policy for the John Kerry Presidential campaign in 2004.
Furman received an MSc from the London School of Economics and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University. Also at Harvard, Furman earned a bachelor's in social studies and a master's in government. He has worked with former Clinton Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin.
In recent years, Furman has worked as a budget expert at the Brookings Institution. There, he directed the Hamilton Project, an economic policy research group that develops policy proposals to achieve shared economic growth.[2]
He was a Visiting Scholar at New York University's Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.[3] He has been a visiting lecturer at Columbia and Yale Universities.
He lives in Washington, DC, with his wife, Eve Gerber, and their two children, Henry and Louisa. Gail Furman, Furman's mother, heads a family foundation ("The Furman Foundation, Inc.") that funds mostly left-leaning nonprofit groups.[4]
His hobbies include juggling.
Furman is often parodied on the Glenn Beck Program as Obama advisor "Honkey Whitesville," a recurring call-in guest portrayed by Steve Burguiere.
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National Security Advisor
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Jim Jones
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Ben Rhodes
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Valerie Jarrett
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Christina Tchen
Jon Carson |
2009–11
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Denis McDonough
Brooke Anderson |
2009-10
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2009– |
White House Communications Director |
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2009- |
Director, National Economic Council
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Lawrence Summers
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2009–10
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Jennifer Psaki
Robert Gibbs
Jay Carney |
2009–
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| Deputy Director, National Economic Council |
Diana Farrell |
2009– |
Deputy Press Secretary |
Bill Burton |
2009–11 |
Deputy Director, National Economic Council
Deputy Director, National Economic Council |
Jason Furman
Brian Deese |
2009–
2011- |
Director of Special Projects |
Stephanie Cutter |
2010-11 |
| Chair of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board |
Paul Volcker |
2009– |
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Jon Favreau |
2009– |
Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors
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Christina Romer
Austan Goolsbee |
2009–10
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Rob Nabors |
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Katharine Abraham |
2011- |
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Lisa Konwinski |
2009– |
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Cecilia Rouse |
2009– |
Executive Clerk |
George T. Saunders† |
2009– |
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Peter R. Orszag
Jacob Lew |
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Patrick Gaspard
Aneesh Chopra
Todd Park |
2009–11
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Jeffrey Liebman
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2010
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Ron Kirk |
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Chris Lu |
2009– |
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Melody Barnes |
2009– |
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2009– |
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Heather Higginbottom
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2009– |
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2009– |
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Reggie Love |
2009– |
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Carol Browner |
2009–11 |
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Katie Johnson
Anita Decker |
2009–11
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Heather Zichal |
2009– |
Special Projects Coordinator and Confidential Assistant to the President |
Eugene Kang
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Director, Council on Environmental Quality
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Nancy Sutley
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2009–
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Jackie Norris
Susan Sher
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2009
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