WASHINGTON — The Concord
Coalition announced today that Diane Lim Rogers has been hired as the
organization’s first Chief Economist, coming directly from Capitol Hill where
she has served as Chief Economist of
the House Budget Committee since January 2007. During 2006, Dr. Rogers was
Research Director of the Budgeting for National Priorities project at the
Brookings Institution and participated as a member of The Concord Coalition’s
WASHINGTON — The Concord
Coalition announced today that Diane Lim Rogers has been hired as the
organization’s first Chief Economist, coming directly from Capitol Hill where
she has served as Chief Economist of
the House Budget Committee since January 2007. During 2006, Dr. Rogers was
Research Director of the Budgeting for National Priorities project at the
Brookings Institution and participated as a member of The Concord Coalition’s
“Fiscal Wake-Up Tour”, along with former U.S. Comptroller General David M.
Walker and other scholars from Brookings and the Heritage Foundation.
“We are delighted that Diane is bringing her considerable analytical skills
and passion for fiscal responsibility to The Concord Coalition. She has the
rare ability to make a strong, non-partisan, economic case for fiscal
responsibility in a way that doesn’t require a Ph.D. in economics to
understand,” said Concord Coalition Executive Director Robert L. Bixby.
As Chief Economist, Dr. Rogers will research and write
issue briefs as well as provide commentary on tax and fiscal policy. She will
also be a key part of the Fiscal Wake-Up Tour team, both in developing
educational material for the current phase of the Tour and in helping to plan
the next phase. “I am thrilled to be given this unique opportunity to advocate
for thoughtful, fiscally responsible policy as the surest route to both a strong
economy today and a bright economic future for our children,” said Rogers. On
May 11, Mother’s Day, Rogers will launch a blog called EconomistMom.com, where
she will comment on a range of issues, with fiscal responsibility prominent
among them, using her dual credentials as a Ph.D. economist and mom of four
kids.
From 2004 to
2006 Dr. Rogers served as Chief Economist for the House Ways and Means Committee
Democrats, and prior to that was a Principal Economist for the Joint Economic
Committee Democrats. She was a Senior Economist on the staff of the Council of
Economic Advisers during the last year of the Clinton Administration and first
100 days of the Bush Administration, and in President Clinton’s final Economic
Report of the President (2001) drafted the sections extolling the merits of
fiscal discipline. Dr. Rogers has also worked at the Urban Institute and the
Congressional Budget Office, and was Assistant Professor of Economics at Penn
State University. She continues to teach courses on tax and budget policy as an
Adjunct Professor in the School of Public Policy and Public Administration at
George Washington University.
Dr. Rogers
received her B.A. in Economics from the University of Michigan in 1983, her M.A.
from Brown University in 1984, and her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in
1991. Her husband, Dr. John H. Rogers, is an economist at the Federal Reserve
Board (Deputy Associate Director in the International Finance Division), and
they live in Vienna, Virginia with their three daughters and one son.
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The Concord Coalition is a nonpartisan, grassroots
organization dedicated to balanced federal budgets and generationally
responsible fiscal policy. Former U.S. Senators Warren Rudman (R-NH) and Bob
Kerrey (D-NE) serve as Concord’s co-chairs and former Secretary of Commerce
Peter Peterson serves as president.
CONTACT:
Jonathan DeWald
(703) 894-6222
jdewald@concordcoalition.org
