CHAD STONE JOINS CENTER AS CHIEF ECONOMIST

Charles “Chad” Stone, a leading economist with over 30 years of federal government, academic, and policy research experience has joined the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities as Chief Economist, a new position.

Prior to his arrival at the Center, Stone was acting executive director of the Joint Economic Committee of Congress and before that, staff director and chief economist for the committee’s minority staff from 2002 to 2006. He was chief economist for the Senate Budget Committee in 2001-02, and a senior economist and then chief economist at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers from 1996 to 2001. Stone also has been a senior researcher at the Urban Institute and a member of the Economics Department faculty of Swarthmore College.

In his new appointment as the Center’s first Chief Economist, Stone will focus on the economic analysis of a broad array of budget and policy issues.

Stone joins the Center’s Federal Fiscal Policy division, where he will work with:

• James R. Horney, Director of the Division, and former Chief of the Projections Unit of the Congressional Budget Office,
• Richard Kogan, Senior Fellow, who formerly served for 21 years on the staff of the House Budget Committee, most recently as the Director of Budget Policy, and
• Aviva Aron-Dine, Policy Analyst.

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