Special Edition Webinar

Our special edition webinar featured Douglas Holtz-Eakin, renowned economist and policy expert. This session covered key factors shaping today's policy environment and provided a forward-looking perspective on economic trends.

Webinar recording is available until May 4, 2025.

Douglas Holtz-Eakin
Former Director, Congressional Budget Office; Economic and Fiscal Policy Expert

Douglas Holtz-Eakin has an esteemed record as a researcher and policy adviser. Currently he is the President of the American Action Forum and Distinguished Fellow at the Daniels School of Business, Purdue University. Having been involved in policy, politics, academia, and government, he is unique in his diverse, multifaceted economic background and offers audiences a 360-degree view of the economy.

Holtz-Eakin is funny, lively, and humorous as he breaks down complicated issues in his candid presentations and uses everyday examples and anecdotes to illustrate what the future holds for tax policy, budget outlook, energy issues, healthcare, financial reform, and more. A distinguished economic advisor, academic, and strategist, he is skilled at forecasting policy changes on the horizon and recommending sound strategies for mitigating risk to your industry. He is exclusively represented by Leading Authorities speakers bureau.

  In 1989 and 1990 he was senior economist for the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, where he subsequently served as chief economist in 2001 and 2002. He was the sixth director of the Congressional Budget Office from 2003 to 2005 and then became director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies and the Paul A. Volcker Chair in international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. During 2007 and 2008, he was director of domestic and economic policy for the John McCain presidential campaign.

Dr. Holtz-Eakin was a commissioner on the congressionally chartered Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, serves on the boards of the Tax Foundation and National Academy of Social Insurance, and is a member of the Aspen Economic Strategy Group.