Thursday, 01 Dec 2011
Policy Responses to the Great Recession: The Interaction of Leadership and Economic Ideas
As Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers from January 2009 until September 2010, Christina Romer was one of the four economics principals who met with President Obama daily to design and guide the Administration's response to the Great Recession. She is the class of 1957-Garff B. Wilson Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Fall 2011 Mary Louise Smith Chair in Women and Politics