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Director, Center for Employment Policy
Senior Fellow
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Diana Furchtgott-Roth is a Senior Fellow at Hudson Institute, where she directs the Center for Employment Policy. Her areas of expertise include employment, taxation, education, pensions, unionization, and immigration. 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 of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers under President George W. Bush.
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.
Diana Furchtgott-Roth is coauthor of Women's Figures: An Illustrated Guide to the Economics of Women in America (The AEI Press and Independent Women’s Forum, 1999) and The Feminist Dilemma: When Success Is Not Enough (The AEI Press, 2001). Her articles have been published in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Investor's Business Daily, The Los Angeles Times, the Civil Rights Journal, The New York Sun, The Indianapolis Star, and the Journal of Regulation and Social Costs, among others, and she has appeared on numerous television and radio shows, including The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and C-SPAN’s Washington Journal.
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