15 Facts About Jason Furman

On June 10,2013, Furman was named by President Barack Obama as chair of the Council of Economic Advisers.

Jason Furman has served as the deputy director of the US National Economic Council, which followed his role as an advisor for the Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign.

Jason Furman is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Group of Thirty and the Aspen Economic Strategy Group.

Jason Furman serves as a Trustee of the Russell Sage Foundation and on the advisory boards for the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, the Bund Summit, the Hamilton Project and the Washington Center for Equitable Growth.

Jason Furman then received an MSc from the London School of Economics.

Jason Furman later returned to Harvard, where he received an AM in government in 1995 and a PhD in economics in 2004.

In 1996, while he was a graduate student at Harvard, Jason Furman was hired by economist Joseph Stiglitz to serve a one-year stint as a staff economist for the Council of Economic Advisers.

Jason Furman later worked with Stiglitz at the World Bank before joining the National Economic Council as a Special Assistant to the President during the Clinton administration.

Jason Furman was involved to varying degrees with the presidential campaigns of Al Gore and Wesley Clark, along with his wife, Eve Gerber, who contributed as a speechwriter for Clark.

At the outset of the election, Furman joined the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities where he was credited with helping defeat the privatization of Social Security proposed by the George W Bush administration.

Jason Furman was a visiting scholar at New York University's Robert F Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and taught as a visiting lecturer at Columbia University and Yale University.

From 2006 to 2008, Jason Furman was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and director of the Hamilton Project, an economic policy research group that develops policy proposals to achieve shared economic growth founded by former Clinton Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin.

In 2008, Jason Furman joined Barack Obama's presidential campaign as the Economic Policy Director.

Jason Furman is credited with helping to create the administration's corporate tax-overhaul plan, influencing fiscal policy negotiations, and for helping to design and negotiate the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

On June 10,2013, Jason Furman was named chairman of the three-member Council of Economic Advisers by President Obama.