Jason Furman

Jason Furman
Official portrait, 2013
28th Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers
In office August 2, 2013 – January 20, 2017
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Alan Krueger
Succeeded by	Kevin Hassett
Personal details
Born	(1970-08-18) August 18, 1970 (age 54) New York City, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Spouse	Eve Gerber
Relations	Jesse M. Furman (brother)
Children	3
Education	Harvard University (BA, MA, PhD) London School of Economics (MSc)

Jason Furman (born August 18, 1970) is an American economist and professor at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government^[1] and a nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.^[2] On June 10, 2013, Furman was named by President Barack Obama as chair of the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA).^[3] Furman has also served as the deputy director of the U.S. National Economic Council,^[4] which followed his role as an advisor for the Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign.

Since 2019, he has taught Economics 10, the year-long introductory economics course at Harvard, together with David Laibson.^[5]

Furman is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Group of Thirty and the Aspen Economic Strategy Group. He also 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. In addition to articles in scholarly journals and periodicals, Furman is a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal and Project Syndicate and the editor of two books on economic policy.^[6]