Jason Furman

JASON FURMAN is the Aetna Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy, jointly at Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard's Department of Economics. He serves as the Weil Director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He co-teaches Ec10, "Principles of Economics," the largest course at Harvard. From 2013 to 2017, Furman served as the 28th Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, acting as President Obama's chief economist and a member of the cabinet, capping eight years as a top economic adviser in the Obama White House. Furman has also advised governments around the world on economic policy. He chaired the United Kingdom's Digital Competition Expert Panel, whose 2019 report provided the intellectual foundation for the UK's Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act and influenced digital competition reforms internationally. For these contributions to UK public policy, he was appointed an honorary Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE). His research and writing span U.S. and international macroeconomics, fiscal policy, labor markets, and competition policy. He is a contributing Opinion writer at the New York Times and the editor of two books on economic policy. Furman holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.