The Russell Sage Foundation is pleased to announce the appointment of Peter R. Orszag to its board of trustees. Orszag, who will officially join the board in November, is currently Vice Chairman of Corporate and Investment Banking, Chairman of the Public Sector Group, and Chairman of the Financial Strategy and Solutions Group at Citigroup.

Orszag received an A.B. in Economics (summa cum laude) from Princeton University in 1991, and his M.Sc. in 1992 and Ph.D. in 1997, both in Economics from the London School of Economics, where he was a Marshall Scholar. In addition to his work at Citigroup, he is a contributing columnist at Bloomberg View, and an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He served as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Obama (2009-2010) and has also served as Director of the Congressional Budget Office (2007-2008). During the Clinton administration, Orszag was Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and then Senior Economist and Senior Advisor on the Council of Economic Advisers. As a Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution, Orszag was the Founding Director of The Hamilton Project, guiding its launch in 2006.

Orszag has co-authored six books, including Saving Social Security: A Balanced Approach (Brookings Institution Press, 2003) and Aging Gracefully: Ideas to Improve Retirement Security in America (The Century Foundation, 2006). He serves on the Board of Directors at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, New Visions for Public Schools in New York, Mt. Sinai Hospital, and ideas42. He is also a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Science and the Trilateral Commission.

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