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Keynote Address

“The Growing Gap in Life Expectancy, Evidence-Based Policy-Making, and Other Assorted Topics”

Thursday, May 28, 2015

4:45 pm – 5:45pm

Regency Ballroom A

Welcome and Introduction:  Laurie Miller Brotman, PhD, Bezos Family Foundation Professor of Early Childhood Development, Department of Population Health, Professor, Department of Psychiatry Population Health, New York University School of Medicine

Speaker: Peter Orszag, PhD, Vice Chairman of Corporate and Investment Banking and Chairman of the Financial Strategy and Solutions Group at Citigroup.

Peter Orszag, PhD

Peter Orszag is an economist currently serving as a Vice Chairman of Corporate and Investment Banking and Chairman of the Financial Strategy and Solutions Group at Citigroup. He is also a contributing columnist at Bloomberg View, and an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.  Orszag serves on the Board of Directors of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, and Mt. Sinai Hospital.  He is also a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Science and the Trilateral Commission.

Previous positions include serving as the 37th Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Obama and the Director of the Congressional Budget Office; a Senior Economist and Senior Adviser on the Council of Economic Advisers, and Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy under President Clinton; a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution (where he headed the Hamilton Project and Retirement Security Project); a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations; an economics lecturer at University of California – Berkeley; a Contributing Op-Ed Columnist for the New York Times; and an author/contributor of several books.  As a weekly contributor for Bloomberg View, Peter Orszag’s columns cover a range of topics concerning economics, health care, and political economy.

Orszag received an A.B. degree in economics from Princeton, summa cum laude, and his master’s and doctorate from the London School of Economics.