Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy
In office December 11, 2006 – January 20, 2009
President
George W. Bush
Preceded by
Mark Warshawsky
Succeeded by
Alan B. Krueger
Personal details
Born
(1966-06-08) June 8, 1966 (age 58) New York City, New York, U.S.
Political party
Republican
Spouse
Judith K. Hellerstein
Children
3
Education
Princeton University (BA) Harvard University (MA, PhD)
Phillip Lee "Phill" Swagel[1] (born June 8, 1966)[2] is an American economist who is currently the director of the Congressional Budget Office. As Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy from 2006 to 2009, he played an important role in the Troubled Asset Relief Program that was part of the U.S. government's response to the financial crisis of 2007–08. He was recently a Professor in International Economics at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, a non-resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, senior fellow at the Milken Institute, and co-chair of the Bipartisan Policy Center's Financial Regulatory Reform Initiative.
Educated at Princeton University and Harvard University, Swagel has taught economics at Northwestern University, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business, in addition to Maryland. He has also worked at the Federal Reserve, the International Monetary Fund, and the White House Council of Economic Advisors.
^Phillip Lee Swagel. Online White House archives of President George W. Bush. Accessed Jan. 8, 2014.
^"HEARING BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON FINANCE UNITED STATES SENATE ONE HUNDRED NINTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON THE NOMINATIONS OF...PHILLIP SWAGEL, TO BE ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC POLICY, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY;..." (PDF). Senate Finance Committee. December 5, 2006.
Phillip Lee "Phill" Swagel (born June 8, 1966) is an American economist who is currently the director of the Congressional Budget Office. As Assistant...
Biomolecular Engineering at University of Delaware. Retrieved 2024-03-28. PhillipSwagel. University of Maryland School of Public Policy. Accessed Jan. 8, 2014...
Economic and Policy Research Issue Brief. Retrieved October 22, 2009. PhillipSwagel (November 29, 2013). "Reducing the Impact of Too Big to Fail". The New...
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In early 2008, Paulson directed Kashkari and fellow Treasury aide PhillipSwagel to write a plan to recapitalize the banking system in case the crisis...
Treasury Henry Paulson directed two of his aides, Neel Kashkari and PhillipSwagel, to write a plan to recapitalize the U.S. financial system in case of...
China in the 21st Century (AEI Press, November 2012) (co-authored with PhillipSwagel) "China has three roads to Taiwan: The US must block them all", The...
Budget Office: until May 31, 2019: Keith Hall starting June 3, 2019: PhillipSwagel Librarian of Congress: Carla Diane Hayden Director of the U.S. Government...
Archived from the original on January 2, 2008. Retrieved June 30, 2017. PhillipSwagel. University of Maryland School of Public Policy. Retrieved January 8...
United States: Gene Dodaro Director of the Congressional Budget Office: PhillipSwagel Librarian of Congress: Carla Diane Hayden Director of the U.S. Government...
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Retirement Security: Performance of S ESOP Firms in the Recession." Swagel, Phillip and Robert Carroll. March 10, 2010 Freeman, Steven F.; Knoll, Michael...
Theory and Policy, Addison-Wesley.[page needed] Mankiw, N. Gregory; Swagel, Phillip (July 2006). "The Politics and Economics of Offshore Outsourcing"....
The Economist. London. April 19, 2008. p. 81. Slaughter, Matthew J.; Swagel, Phillip (September 1997). "Does Globalization Lower Wages and Export Jobs?"...
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