Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Douglas Holtz-Eakin joined Purdue's Daniels School of Business as a Distinguished Fellow in spring 2024. He has an esteemed record as a researcher and policy adviser. Currently he is the President of the American Action Forum (AAF). In 1989 and 1990 he was senior economist for the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, where he subsequently served as chief economist in 2001 and 2002. He was the sixth director of the Congressional Budget Office from 2003 to 2005 and then became director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies and the Paul A. Volcker Chair in international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. During 2007 and 2008, he was director of domestic and economic policy for the John McCain presidential campaign. Dr. Holtz-Eakin was a commissioner on the congressionally-chartered Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, serves on the boards of the Tax Foundation and National Academy of Social Insurance, and is a member of the Aspen Economic Strategy Group.