Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Jared Bernstein

Chair
Council of Economic Advisers

Moderator:
Mark Zandi
Chief Economist
Moody’s Analytics

Jared serves as the Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers. Previously, he served as chief economist to then- Vice President Biden in the Obama-Biden Administration before joining the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, where he served as a senior fellow from 2011 to 2021.

A former social worker, Jared has a long track record of devising economic policies that expand opportunity for working Americans. Jared has previously served as Executive Director of the White House Task Force on the Middle Class and as an economic advisor to President Obama; prior to his service in the Obama-Biden Administration, he was a senior economist and director of the Living Standards Program at the Economic Policy Institute and served as Deputy Chief Economist at the U.S. Department of Labor under President Clinton.

Jared received his bachelor’s degree from the Manhattan School of Music, his Master of Social Work degree from Hunter College, and his Ph.D. in social welfare from Columbia University.