Daniels School Distinguished Fellow Douglas Holtz-Eakin Fireside Chat

This event is open to the public, as seating permits, and will offer a unique opportunity to learn from and engage with a prominent figure who has decades of experience in shaping U.S. economic and political policies. 

Doors open at 4:00pm 

Chat 4:30-6:00pm

This event is sponsored by: Daniels School of Business, Program on American Institutional Renewel, Center for C-SPAN Scholarship & Engagement, CCSE Student Community, Purdue Economics Association

Douglas Holtz-Eakin is the President of the American Action Forum, a non-profit policy research organization he founded in 2009. He served on the faculties at Columbia University and Syracuse University, and was chief economist of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers and director of the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, which provides budgetary and policy analysis to the U.S. Congress. He also served as director of domestic and economic policy for John McCain’s presidential campaign.

Dr. Holtz-Eakin received a bachelor’s degree in economics and mathematics from Denison University and a doctorate from Princeton University. His research topics include the federal budget, health care, housing, immigration, labor, taxes, and financial services.