Jason Furman is the Aetna Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy, jointly at Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard’s Department of Economics. He serves as the Weil Director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School. He is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He co-teaches Ec10, “Principles of Economics,” the largest course at Harvard.
From 2013 to 2017, Furman served as the 28th Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, acting as President Obama’s chief economist and a member of the cabinet, capping eight years as a top economic adviser in the Obama White House. His research and writing span U.S. and international macroeconomics, fiscal policy, labor markets, and competition policy.
He is a contributing Opinion writer at the New York Times and the editor of two books on economic policy. Furman holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.
