Presented By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
Economic Dignity
GENE SPERLING, FORMER DIRECTOR, NATIONAL ECONOMIC COUNCIL AND NATIONAL ECONOMIC ADVISOR TO PRESIDENTS CLINTON AND OBAMA
POLICY TALKS @ THE FORD SCHOOL
Free and open to the public. Reception to follow.
This event will be live webstreamed. Check event website before the event starts for viewing information.
Join the conversation: #policytalks
From the speaker's bio:
The only person to serve as director of the National Economic Council under two Presidents, Gene Sperling provides unique perspective and insights on the intersection between the U.S. and global economy and the most pressing economic policy issues of the day.
From serving as director of the National Economic Council (NEC) for both Barack Obama and Bill Clinton to consulting for four seasons on NBC’s award-winning political drama The West Wing, Sperling is widely respected across the political spectrum as one of the top White House economic advisors with a reputation for merging economic policy and economic analysis to get things done. As NEC director, Sperling was the President’s economic adviser responsible for coordinating economic policy and chairing policy meetings with the economic cabinet. The New York Times has called Sperling "a prolific idea generator." Under President Obama, he served as a key negotiator on fiscal issues and an architect of the payroll tax cut, expansions of tax credits for low-income Americans, the Small Business Jobs Act and the American Jobs Act. Under President Clinton, Sperling was a key architect of the 1993 Deficit Reduction Act and its major expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit and a top negotiator of the 1997 Bipartisan Balanced Budget Act, He also served as senior counselor to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, where he helped navigate the financial crisis and was a member of the President’s Auto Task Force and the Treasury’s point person for the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
Currently, Sperling heads Sperling Economic Strategies and writes as a contributing editor for The Atlantic.
Free and open to the public. Reception to follow.
This event will be live webstreamed. Check event website before the event starts for viewing information.
Join the conversation: #policytalks
From the speaker's bio:
The only person to serve as director of the National Economic Council under two Presidents, Gene Sperling provides unique perspective and insights on the intersection between the U.S. and global economy and the most pressing economic policy issues of the day.
From serving as director of the National Economic Council (NEC) for both Barack Obama and Bill Clinton to consulting for four seasons on NBC’s award-winning political drama The West Wing, Sperling is widely respected across the political spectrum as one of the top White House economic advisors with a reputation for merging economic policy and economic analysis to get things done. As NEC director, Sperling was the President’s economic adviser responsible for coordinating economic policy and chairing policy meetings with the economic cabinet. The New York Times has called Sperling "a prolific idea generator." Under President Obama, he served as a key negotiator on fiscal issues and an architect of the payroll tax cut, expansions of tax credits for low-income Americans, the Small Business Jobs Act and the American Jobs Act. Under President Clinton, Sperling was a key architect of the 1993 Deficit Reduction Act and its major expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit and a top negotiator of the 1997 Bipartisan Balanced Budget Act, He also served as senior counselor to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, where he helped navigate the financial crisis and was a member of the President’s Auto Task Force and the Treasury’s point person for the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
Currently, Sperling heads Sperling Economic Strategies and writes as a contributing editor for The Atlantic.
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