Donald Baird Marron Jr. is an American economist, professor and policy advisor and director of the nonpartisan Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center in Washington, D.C. He is the son of the economist and financier Donald B. Marron Sr.

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

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. 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 Charles River Associates, 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

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. 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

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

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Tax Policy Center. Marron has written on a broad range of topics, including tax policy, intellectual property, and energy and environmental policy. He also edited the publications ''30-Second Economics'' and ''30-Second Money''.

Education

Marron graduated from

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

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

References

External links

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