Diana Furchtgott-Roth

Diana Furchtgott-Roth is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, where she directs the Center for Employment Policy. Her research includes an analysis of the effects of education on earnings of low-performing students; a comparison of the funding status of union and non-union pensions: and women’s economic progress. Prior to joining Hudson, Ms. Furchtgott-Roth was Chief Economist of the U.S. Department of Labor. From 2001 to 2002 she served as chief of staff at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers.

Ms. Furchtgott-Roth 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). From 2006 to 2008 she was a weekly economics columnist for the New York Sun, and is now a contributing editor for RealClearMarkets.com and a columnist for Tax Notes. Her articles have been published in The Washington Post, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, The Los Angeles Times, and Le Figaro, among others.

Ms. Furchtgott-Roth is a regular guest on CNBC’s Street Signs and Fox Business News. She has appeared on numerous other TV and radio shows, including The Diane Rehm Show, C-SPAN’s Washington Journal and PBS’s The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.

Ms. Furchtgott-Roth was assistant to the president and resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute from 1993 to 2001. Prior to that, she 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 1987 to 1991 she was an economist at the American Petroleum Institute, where she authored papers on energy and taxation. Ms. Furchtgott-Roth was an economist on the staff of President Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisers from 1986 to 1987.

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