Diana Furchtgott-Roth

Ms. Furchtgott-Roth served as Deputy Executive Director of the Domestic Policy Council and Associate Director of the Office of Policy Planning in the White House under President George H.W. Bush from 1991 to 1993, and she was an economist on the staff of President Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisers from 1986 to 1987.

Ms. Furchtgott-Roth is a monthly columnist for Tax Notes and a contributing editor for RealClearMarkets.com, where she writes a weekly economics column.  Her articles have been published in The Washington Post, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, New York Sun, Investor’s Business Daily, The Los Angeles Times, and Le Figaro, among others. She is the editor of Overcoming Barriers to Entrepreneurship in the United States (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008) and the coauthor of The Feminist Dilemma:  When Success Is Not Enough (AEI Press, 2001) and Women’s Figures: An Illustrated Guide to the Economics of Women in America (AEI Press, 1999). 

Ms. Furchtgott-Roth has appeared on numerous TV and radio shows, including  Fox Business News with Stuart Varney, CNBC’s Power Grid, C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, CNBC’s Street Signs, PBS’s The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and the Diane Rehm Show.

Ms. Furchtgott-Roth was assistant to the president and resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute from 1993 to 2001.   From 1987 to 1991 she was an economist at the American Petroleum Institute, where she authored papers on energy and taxation.  

 
Ms. Furchtgott-Roth received her B.A. in economics from Swarthmore College and her M.Phil. in economics from Oxford University.