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Phillip Swagel was Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy at the U.S. Department of Treasury from December 2006 until January 2009. His responsibilities included Treasury's macro forecast and daily economic briefings; development of housing policies; the reverse auction process to purchase illiquid assets; and other policies including health care, pensions, Social Security, Medicare, insurance, energy, environment, patent reform, homeland security and financial markets. He served as a member of the TARP investment committee. Swagel was previously a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, chief of staff and a senior economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers and an economist at the Federal Reserve Board and the International Monetary Fund. He has taught at Northwestern University, and he currently teaches a course on macroeconomics and financial markets at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He will be a professor at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University starting this fall. Swagel received a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.

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