Harvey S. Rosen

Harvey Sheldon Rosen is an economist. He completed his A.B. from University of Michigan, where he was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, in 1970. He completed his A.M. in Economics in 1972 and Ph.D. in Economics in 1974 from Harvard University. He has been appointed as the John L. Weinberg Professor of Economics and Business Policy at Princeton University, and former chairperson of the Council of Economic Advisers. His research focuses on public finance. He was designated by the President to be Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers on February 23, 2005. Dr. Rosen was nominated by President Bush on July 15, 2003 and confirmed by the United States Senate on October 17, 2003 to serve as a Member of the Council of Economic Advisers. He has been a member of Princeton's Department of Economics since 1974. He served as the Chairman of the Department from 1993 to 1996, and has been Co-Director of the Center for Economic Policy Studies since 1993. In 1986, he was elected as a Fellow of the Econometric Society. He has been an Associate Researcher at the National Bureau of Economic Research since 1978, where he has focused on taxes and commerce. In 1981,he was a Visiting Scholar at the Hoover Institute. From 1989-1991, he worked at the United States Department of Treasury as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Analysis. In 2013, he was a signatory to an amicus curiae brief submitted to the Supreme Court in support of same-sex marriage during the Hollingsworth v. Perry case. He has received the Daniel M. Holland Medal of the National Tax Association in 2007 and President's Distinguished Teaching Award in 2003.