Board | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Founder and President Emeritus

Robert Greenstein

Greenstein is the founder and President Emeritus of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Read about him and his work here.

Board of Directors

Henry J. Aaron

Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution

Former Director of the Brookings Economic Studies Program; former Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (Carter Administration)

Kenneth Apfel, Chair

Professor of Practice, University of Maryland School of Public Policy

Former Commissioner of the Social Security Administration (Clinton Administration); former Associate Director of the Office of Management and Budget; former Professor, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas

Henry A. Coleman

Professor, School of Public Policy and Planning, Rutgers University

Former Director, Rutgers Center for Government Services

David de Ferranti

Director, International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie), Washington Office

Board Chair, Results for Development (R4D); former World Bank Vice President for Latin American and Caribbean Region; former Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution; former Associate Administrator, Food and Nutrition Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture (Carter Administration)

Jacob Lew

Partner, Lindsay Goldberg LLC, Visiting Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs

Former U.S. Treasury Secretary; former Director of the Office of Management and Budget (Clinton and Obama administrations); former White House Chief of Staff

Jane D. Hartley

Chair of the Board at Sesame Workshop; member of the Visiting and Executive Committees at the Kennedy School at Harvard University; member of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Board of Trustees at the Center for American Progress

Former Ambassador to the French Republic and the Principality of Monaco; Presidential appointee to the Board of the Corporation for National and Community Service; member of the White House staff (Carter Administration)

Antonia Hernández

President and CEO, California Community Foundation

Former President and General Counsel, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF)

Wayne Jordan

Co-Founder and Secretary-Treasurer, Akonadi Foundation

Founder, Jordan Real Estate Investments (Oakland, CA); member of the boards of the ACLU Investment Committee, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, Color of Change, and Rock the Vote

C. Lynn McNair

Chief Advancement Officer, Georgetown Day School

Former Vice President of Philanthropic Partnerships, Alliance for Excellent Education; former Senior Director, Philanthropy & Partnerships, The Internet Society; former Vice President for Philanthropic Partnerships, Salzburg Global Seminar

Robert D. Reischauer

President Emeritus and Distinguished Institute Fellow, Urban Institute

Former Director, Congressional Budget Office; former trustee of the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds

Melanne Verveer

Executive Director, Georgetown University Institute for Women, Peace and Security

Former U.S. Ambassador for Global Women’s Issues and former United Nations Representative on the Commission on the Status of Women (Obama Administration); former Special Assistant to President Bill Clinton; former Chief of Staff to First Lady Hillary Clinton

Kim Wallace

Consultant

Former Assistant Secretary of Legislative Affairs for the Department of Treasury (Obama Administration); former Senior Analyst for the Senate Budget Committee