Peter Orszag
Director, Congressional Budget Office
Peter Orszag is Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), a position he assumed in January 2007. Orszag consults with the budget committees to ensure that the agency's work and capacities keep pace with congressional demands. Before joining the CBO, he was the Joseph A. Pechman Senior Fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution; co-director of the Tax Policy Center, a joint venture of the Urban Institute and Brookings; director of the Retirement Security Project; and research professor at Georgetown University. During the Clinton administration, he served as special assistant to the president for economic policy and as senior economist and senior adviser on the Council of Economic Advisers. He has co-authored or co-edited a number of books, including Protecting the Homeland 2006/7 (2006), Aging Gracefully: Ideas to Improve Retirement Security in America (2006), and Taxing the Future: Fiscal Policy in the Bush Administration (2006). Orszag received a bachelor's degree from Princeton University and a master's degree and Ph.D. from the London School of Economics, which he attended as a Marshall Scholar.
Global Conference 2013
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair, philanthropist Bill Gates and Strive Masiyiwa of Econet Wireless discuss advancing prosperity in Africa.
