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The Honorable Stephen Miran is Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers in President Donald Trump’s second Administration. On December 22, 2024, President Trump announced his intention to nominate Miran to be the 32nd CEA Chair, and he was confirmed by the Senate on March 12th, 2025.
Previously, he was senior strategist at Hudson Bay Capital Management and senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. In President Trump’s first term, Miran was senior advisor for economic policy at the U.S. Department of the Treasury 2020-2021, where he assisted with fiscal support to the economy during the pandemic recession including the Paycheck Protection Program and other economic support programs. For his contributions he received the Treasury award for exceptional service. Prior to Treasury, he worked for a decade in financial markets. Miran’s work on economic policy has been published in both academic journals and news media, and his research on subjects like trade, tariffs, and Treasury issuance have created widespread and lively discussion in both financial markets and the press. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University, and a B.A. from Boston University, where he studied economics, philosophy, and mathematics.
Pierre Yared is the Vice Chair and Member of the Council of Economic Advisers. He is the MUTB Professor of International Business at Columbia University’s Business School. He previously served as the Senior Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs and Vice Dean for Executive Education at Columbia Business School. His research, which has been published in leading academic journals, studies the political economy of macroeconomic policy.
Yared teaches Global Economic Environment, a Core MBA course in macroeconomics for which he received the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence. He is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the Economic Club of New York. Yared received his AB in Economics from Harvard University and his PhD in Economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Kim Ruhl is a Member of the Council of Economic Advisers, on leave as the Curt and Sue Culver Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin, where he co-directs the Center for Research on the Wisconsin Economy. His research focuses on international economics, models of firm heterogeneity, and national income accounting (Google Scholar // IDEAS). He holds a B.S. in Economics from Bowling Green State University and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Minnesota.
In addition, he is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and was a special sworn researcher at the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, where he studied the ways that multinational firms produce and sell goods and services around the world. He is also a co-editor at the Journal of International Economics and an associate editor at the Review of Economic Dynamics.
Senior Staff and Chief Economists
The Honorable DJ Nordquist is Counselor at the White House Council of Economic Advisers. Previously, she was the executive vice president of the Economic Innovation Group and served on the board or advised several organizations: the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Special Competitive Studies Project, the Carnegie Endowment for International Piece, Clearpath, the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue University, and the Virginia Biotech Park Authority/Activation Capital. She also served as a Dean’s Fellow at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. In the corporate sector, she served as an Independent Director for the NYSE-listed Sunlight Financial and was on the advisory board of Black Buffalo 3D.
Previously, she represented the United States as Executive Director on the Board of the World Bank, after being confirmed unanimously by the US Senate. Prior to the Bank, Ms. Nordquist served as Chief of Staff at the White House Council of Economic Advisers, Chief of Staff for the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution, Assistant Secretary at the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, Senior Advisor in the Office of the Federal Coordinator for Gulf Coast Rebuilding, Deputy Chief of Staff at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and Deputy Assistant Secretary at the US Department of Education. She received the Distinguished Service Award from US Department of the Treasury. She holds a BA from Stanford University and an MS from Northwestern University.
Alex Titus is Deputy Chief of Staff at the White House Council of Economic Advisers. Before CEA, he led a national talent network and co-founded an IT services company supporting nonprofit and association organizations. Alex served in the first Trump Administration as an Advisor at USAID where he focused on clean networks, 5G, and international religious freedom. Prior to USAID, he was Policy Advisor and Spokesman at America First Policies/Action. Alex served on the board of Speech First and has held fellowships with the Observer Research Foundation, Claremont Institute, Tikvah Fund, and Philos Project.
Aaron Hedlund serves as Chief Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers, on leave as an associate professor economics at the Mitchell E. Daniels School of Business at Purdue University. He is also a Research Fellow at the St. Louis Federal Reserve, and served as the Director of Research and Director of the Center for American Prosperity at AFPI. Prior, he served as the Chief Domestic Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers where he helped design and execute emergency economic measures during the COVID-19 pandemic, helping coordinate the nationwide health IT data modernization that supported the Operation Warp Speed vaccine program, and analyzing the impact of core domestic priorities ranging from school choice to the Opportunity Zones program for economically distressed areas. Hedlund received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania and his undergraduate degree in economics and mathematics from Duke University.
Morris A. Davis is the Paul V. Profeta Chair of Real Estate and the Academic Director of the Center for Real Estate Studies at the Rutgers Business School. Previously, Davis was the James A. Graaskamp Chair of Real Estate in the Department of Real Estate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was the Academic Director of the James A. Graaskamp Center for Real Estate. Dr. Davis is a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Banks of Chicago and Minneapolis. Earlier in his career, Dr. Davis was an economist at the Federal Reserve Board where he routinely briefed Alan Greenspan on housing and macroeconomics. Dr. Davis is widely published on issues related to the U.S. housing markets and has developed price indexes for land in residential use. Davis has been on public company boards throughout his career, is a frequent lecturer at Universities and Central Banks around the world, and is regularly interviewed by major media outlets on house prices and housing markets. Davis holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.
Jonathan Ketcham is the Chief Healthcare Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers, on leave as the Earl G. and Gladys C. Davis Distinguished Research Professor in Business in the W.P. Carey School’s Department of Marketing and Department of Economics at Arizona State University. He conducts econometric studies of the roles of incentives and information in health care markets, with a focus on consumer and physician decision making. He has collaborated on research projects with Pfizer Inc, Banner Health, CVS Caremark, Symphony Health Solutions, FAIR Health, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. His research has been published in The American Economic Review, The Journal of Econometrics, The International Economic Review The Rand Journal of Economics and elsewhere. For this work, Dr. Ketcham has received the NIHCM Foundation’s Annual Health Care Research Award, the John D. Thompson Prize for Young Investigators from AUPHA, and two federal R01 grants. He earned a B.A in Economics from Baylor University and a Ph.D. in Economics from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He was a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research at the University of California, Berkeley.
Senior Economists
George J. Borjas is the Robert W. Scrivner Research Professor of Economics and Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He was awarded the IZA Prize in Labor Economics in 2011. Professor Borjas is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Research Fellow at IZA and is the author of several books, including Immigration Economics (Harvard University Press, 2014), Heaven’s Door: Immigration Policy and the American Economy (Princeton University Press, 1999), and the widely used textbook Labor Economics (McGraw-Hill, 2020), now in its eighth edition, and We Wanted Workers: Unraveling the Immigration Narrative (W. W. Norton, 2016). He has also published over 170 articles in books and scholarly journals. His professional honors include citations in Who’s Who in the World and Who’s Who in America. Professor Borjas was elected a fellow of the Econometric Society in 1998 and a fellow of the Society of Labor Economists in 2004. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University in 1975.
Steven Braun has been CEA’s Director of Macroeconomic Forecasting since 1996. Prior to his current position, Dr. Braun was a senior economist at the Council, a senior economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, and an economist at the OECD. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. from Harvard University.
Dustin Chambers is a Professor of Economics in the Perdue School of Business at Salisbury University and a Senior Affiliated Scholar with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Dr. Chambers is an applied econometrician who has published widely on the topics of income inequality, poverty, and economic growth. His most recent research focuses on the regressive effects of government regulations, including their unintended impact on consumer prices, entrepreneurship, and social mobility vis-a-vis income inequality and poverty. He earned his MA in economics from UCLA and his PhD in economics from the University of California at Riverside.
Theodore Figinski is a senior economist with the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Economic Policy, focusing on public economics, taxation, and labor economics. His research has been accepted for publication in the ILR Review and the National Tax Journal. In recognition of his public service at Treasury, he received the Chase Award, the Treasury Secretary’s Honor Award. He earned his PhD in economics from the University of California, Irvine and his BS from Towson University.
Anastasia Shcherbakova previously was a senior consultant for Coherent Economics. Formerly, she was an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M’s Agricultural Economics Department. She is an applied economist focusing on issues of natural resource, environmental, and energy economics, regulation, and policy. She holds a PhD in Public Policy from the University of Chicago and has held previous academic appointments at Penn State University and the University of Texas at Dallas.
Erin Towery is on leave as the KPMG-Atlanta Partners’ and Employees’ Professor at the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business. Her research lies at the intersection of taxation, financial reporting and corporate finance. She was a recipient of the American Accounting Association Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Award in 2024. Erin has served as an Editorial Board Member for Contemporary Accounting Research and a Board Member for the National Tax Association. Erin enjoys teaching both undergraduate and graduate classes at the University of Georgia, and she recently won the Terry College of Business Teaching Excellence Award and the Honors College J. Hatten Howard III Award. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Auburn University, and her Master’s and Ph.D. in Accounting from The University of Texas at Austin.
Jobs & Internships
The Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) recruits Senior Economists. Senior Economists have a Ph.D. in economics and are typically on leave from positions at universities, government agencies, or research organizations. Excellent research skills and strong presentation skills are needed. Senior Economists participate actively in the policy process, represent the CEA in interagency meetings, and have primary responsibility for the economic analysis and reports prepared by the Council. In recent years, Senior Economists have been faculty members from institutions such as Columbia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Harvard, Purdue, Williams, University of Georgia, UCLA, NYU, and economists from the Treasury, Federal Reserve Board, USDA, SEC, DOL, OMB, DOC, and DOE. It has been a productive and collegial team, and it is supported by an exceptionally strong staff of on-leave PhD students and recent college graduates. The CEA needs specialists in virtually every field of economics.
Most Senior Economists begin work at the Council in the summer and stay for a full academic year. CEA staff members must be U.S. citizens and may not also be citizens of another country.
If you are interested in applying for these positions, please send your C.V. by email to:
President’s Council of Economic Advisers
Email: recruiting@cea.eop.gov
Application deadline: Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
The United States Government does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability and genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, or other non-merit factor.
CEA Staff Economist Opportunities
The Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) is currently recruiting Staff Economists. The CEA provides the President with objective economic analysis and advice on the development and implementation of a wide range of domestic and international economic policy issues. Staff Economists are typically Ph.D. students on leave from top programs, and are integral members of the CEA team. They conduct advanced statistical analysis, contribute to reports distributed throughout the Administration and to Congress, and play a key role in producing the President’s daily economic briefing.
Staff Economists must be U.S. citizens and must be willing to be investigated for a security clearance. Most Staff Economists work at the Council for a full 12-month period.
If you are interested in applying for this position, please email your resume, transcript, a single-authored writing sample. We also request two letters of recommendation (at least one must be from an economist and should be submitted directly from the recommender) to:
President’s Council of Economic Advisers
Email: recruiting@cea.eop.gov
Application Deadline: Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
The United States Government does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability and genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, or other non-merit factor.
CEA Research Economist Opportunities
The Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) is currently recruiting Research Economists. The CEA provides the President with objective economic analysis and advice on the development and implementation of a wide range of domestic and international economic policy issues. In addition to being college graduates with extensive coursework in economics and statistics and a keen interest in public policy, Research Economists typically have 1-2 years of work experience and/or a Master’s degree in a related field. They support the research and analysis mission of the CEA by conducting statistical analysis and data collection, creating presentations, and writing literature reviews to ensure that recent academic research remains part of the policy process. Research Economists contribute to reports distributed throughout the Administration and to Congress and play a key role in producing the President’s Economic Briefings. They must be detail-oriented as they play a key role in ensuring the accuracy of CEA reports, Presidential speeches, and other documents.
Research Economists must be U.S. citizens and must be willing to be investigated for a security clearance. Most Research Economists begin work at the Council in the summer and stay for one to two years.
If you are interested in applying for this position, please email your resume, transcript, a single-authored writing sample. We also request two letters of recommendation (at least one must be from an economist and should be submitted directly from the recommender) to:
President’s Council of Economic Advisers
Email: recruiting@cea.eop.gov
Application deadline: Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
The United States Government does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability and genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, or other non-merit factor.
CEA Research Assistant Opportunities
The Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) is currently recruiting Research Assistants. The CEA provides the President with objective economic analysis and advice on the development and implementation of a wide range of domestic and international economic policy issues. Research Assistants are typically college graduates with extensive coursework in economics and statistics who have a keen interest in public policy. They support the research and analysis mission of the CEA by conducting statistical analysis and data collection, creating presentations, and writing literature reviews to ensure that recent academic research remains part of the policy process. Research Assistants must be detail-oriented as they play a key role in ensuring the accuracy of CEA reports, Presidential speeches, and other documents.
Research Assistants must be U.S. citizens and must be willing to be investigated for a security clearance. Most Research Assistants begin work at the Council in the summer and stay for one to two years.
If you are interested in applying for this position, please email your resume, transcript, a single-authored writing sample. We also request two letters of recommendation (at least one must be from an economist and should be submitted directly from the recommender) to:
Steven Braun, Director of Macroeconomic Forecasting
President’s Council of Economic Advisers
Email: recruiting@cea.eop.gov
Application deadline: Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
The United States Government does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability and genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, or other non-merit factor.
CEA Internship Opportunities
The White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) is located in Washington, D.C. and offers full- and part-time internships during the spring and fall, and full-time internships during the summer. Interns at CEA are responsible for assisting staff in researching a wide range of macroeconomic, microeconomic, and international issues, analyzing data, and contributing towards the policy-making process. Administrative duties to support the work of the Council are also involved.
CEA interns work on exciting, challenging projects with real world implications. They earn valuable experience applying their quantitative and qualitative research skills on a daily basis and learn new ways to approach questions from CEA economists who serve as their mentors. The CEA internship program is designed to offer our interns a breadth of valuable professional development and networking experiences, including brownbag lunches with prominent economists and opportunities to connect with other agencies.
CEA provides the President with objective economic analysis and advice on the development and implementation of a wide range of domestic and international economic policy issues. The Council is comprised of a Chair and two Members; the Chair is Senate-confirmed, and all three are Presidential Appointees. The staff of the Council consists of Senior and Junior Economists, Research Assistants, and a statistical and administrative staff.
Requirements
All applicants must be U.S. citizens and at least 18 years of age by the internship program start date. Additionally, applicants must meet the following criteria to be eligible:
- Are currently enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate degree program at a college, community college, or university (two-or-four-year institution) or have graduated from an undergraduate or graduate degree program in the past two years;
- Have demonstrated interest in economics, statistics, mathematics, public policy, or finance with a strong academic record and passion for public service;
- Have excellent writing and analytical skills;
- Have experience using Microsoft Office and conducting research and analysis;
- Priority will be given to interns with the ability to work full-time.
- Preferred candidates will also have experience with Stata (or a similar statistical software).
Application details
If you are interested in applying, please send your resume, transcript, and cover letter via email to:
The Intern Program Coordinators
Council of Economic Advisers
Email: recruiting@cea.eop.gov
Application Deadlines:
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis with a cut-off date approximately three weeks in advance of the start date. Exact start and end dates are below.
All internship positions at the Council of Economic Advisers are unpaid. The United States Government does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability and genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, or other non-merit factor.
Internship Dates:
Fall 2025: September 15-December 11 (application cut-off date: July 1)(flexibility for students on a quarter system)
Spring 2026: January 12-May 7 (application cut-off date: November 1) (flexibility for students on a quarter system)
Summer 2026: May 18-August 14 (application cut-off date: February 13) (flexibility for students on a quarter system)