An Address by Peter R. Orszag: Rescue, Recovery, and Reining in the Deficit

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         John Sexton, President, New York University

                                    and

     Ellen Schall, Dean and Martin Cherkasky Professor of Health Policy and Management, Robert F. Wagner
             Graduate School of Public Service

            cordially invite you to an address by

                           Peter R. Orszag
   Director, Office of Management and Budget

on "Rescue, Recovery, and Reining in the Deficit"

                Tuesday, November 3, 2009
                               11:00 AM

   Helen and Martin Kimmel Center for University Life
         60 Washington Square South, 4th Floor
                   Eisner and Lubin Auditorium
              (at the corner of LaGuardia Place)

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ABOUT PETER R. ORSZAG
Director, Office of Management and Budget

Peter R. Orszag served as the Director of the Congressional Budget Office from January 2007 to December 2008, overseeing the agency's work in providing objective, nonpartisan, and timely analyses of economic and budgetary issues -- supervising the numerous analytical papers and cost estimates that the agency produces and, to present the results, frequently testifying before the Congress.  Under his leadership, the agency significantly expanded its focus on areas such as health care and climate change. In previous government service, Orszag served as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and as a staff economist and then Senior Advisor and Senior Economist at the President's Council of Economic Advisers.  Orszag was the Joseph A. Pechman Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution.  While at Brookings, he also served as Director of The Hamilton Project; Director of the Retirement Security Project; and Co-Director of the Tax Policy Center, a joint venture with the Urban Institute.  Orszag graduated summa cum laude in economics from Princeton University and obtained a Ph.D. in economics from the London School of Economics, which he attended as a Marshall scholar.  He has coauthored or coedited a number of books, including Protecting the Homeland 2006/7 (2006), Aging Gracefully: Ideas to Improve Retirement Security in America (2006), and Saving Social Security: A Balanced Approach (2004), and American Economic Policy in the 1990s (2002). Dr. Orszag is a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies of Sciences.  He was previously a visiting scholar at New York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.