Donald Baird Marron Jr. is an American economist, professor and policy advisor and director of the nonpartisan Urban-Brookings

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in Washington, D.C. He is the son of the economist and financier

Donald B. Marron Sr. Donald Baird Marron (July 21, 1934 – December 6, 2019) was an American financier, private equity investor and entrepreneur, notable as the chairman and chief executive officer of brokerage firm Paine Webber from 1980 through the sale of ...

Career

Marron was a member of the President's

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in 2008 and 2009. Earlier, he was the deputy director (2005–2007) and acting director (2006) of the nonpartisan

Congressional Budget Office The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is a federal agency within the legislative branch of the United States government that provides budget and economic information to Congress. Inspired by California's Legislative Analyst's Office that manag ...

. Marron's White House experience includes stints as a senior economic adviser and consultant to the Council of Economic Advisers (2007–08) and as its chief economist (2004–05). He was with Congress's

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from 2002 to 2004, first as the Senate minority's principal economist and later as the committee’s executive director and chief economist.Former Hill and White House Adviser Donald Marron To Direct Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center
Urban Institute web site Before his government service, Marron was chief financial officer of a medical software start-up in Austin, Texas and a principal with the Washington, D.C., office of

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, where he provided business consulting and litigation support to companies in a variety of industries. He is also President of Marron Economics, LLC, through which he does consulting and public speaking. Marron served as a member of the Debt Reduction Task Force at the

Bipartisan Policy Center The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) is a Washington, D.C.–based think tank that promotes bipartisanship. The organization aims to combine ideas from both the Republican and Democratic parties to address challenges in the U.S. BPC focuses on is ...

. "Debt Reduction Task Force Members" Currently, Marron is a visiting professor at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute in Washington DC
He also served as an assistant professor of economics at the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chic ...

’s Graduate School of Business from 1994 to 1998. Marron is currently director of the

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. Marron has written on a broad range of topics, including tax policy, intellectual property, and energy and environmental policy.

Education

Marron graduated from

Harvard College Harvard College is the undergraduate college of Harvard University, an Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636, Harvard College is the original school of Harvard University, the oldest institution of higher ...

, summa cum laude in Mathematics, in 1987. He then attended the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a Private university, private Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern t ...

, receiving a Ph.D. in Economics, 1994.

References

Bush picks Marron for Council of Economic Advisers
Reuters, June 28, 2007
Georgetown University staff listing

Articles by Donald Marron
(Seeking Alpha)

External links

Donald Marron
(blog)
Donald Marron
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