Austan Goolsbee

Austan Dean Goolsbee (born August 18, 1969) is an American economist.[1] Goolsbee was the Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers. He was a member of the cabinet of President Barack Obama and an acting fill-in anchor for WGN-TV in Chicago.[2]

Austan Goolsbee


26th Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers
In office September 10, 2010 – August 5, 2011
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Christina Romer
Succeeded by	Alan Krueger

Personal details
Born	Austan Dean Goolsbee (1969-08-18) August 18, 1969 Waco, Texas, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Education	Yale University (BA, MA) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)

References

Austan Goolsbee Archived April 20, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
Weisman, Jonathan (September 2010), "Goolsbee to Chair Council of Economic Advisers", The Wall Street Journal

Cabinet
Secretary of State	Hillary Clinton (2009–2013) John Kerry (2013–2017)
Secretary of the Treasury	Timothy Geithner (2009–2013) Jack Lew (2013–2017)
Secretary of Defense	Robert Gates (2009–2011) Leon Panetta (2011–2013) Chuck Hagel (2013–2015) Ash Carter (2015–2017)
Attorney General	Eric Holder (2009–2015) Loretta Lynch (2015–2017)
Secretary of the Interior	Ken Salazar (2009–2013) Sally Jewell (2013–2017)
Secretary of Agriculture	Tom Vilsack (2009–2017)
Secretary of Commerce	Gary Locke (2009–2011) John Bryson (2011–2012) Penny Pritzker (2013–2017)
Secretary of Labor	Hilda Solis (2009–2013) Tom Perez (2013–2017)
Secretary of Health and Human Services	Kathleen Sebelius (2009–2014) Sylvia Mathews Burwell (2014–2017)
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development	Shaun Donovan (2009–2014) Julian Castro (2014–2017)
Secretary of Transportation	Ray LaHood (2009–2013) Anthony Foxx (2013–2017)
Secretary of Energy	Steven Chu (2009–2013) Ernest Moniz (2013–2017)
Secretary of Education	Arne Duncan (2009–2016) John King (2016–2017)
Secretary of Veterans Affairs	Eric Shinseki (2009–2014) Bob McDonald (2014–2017)
Secretary of Homeland Security	Janet Napolitano (2009–2013) Jeh Johnson (2013–2017)

Cabinet-level
Vice President	Joe Biden (2009–2017)
White House Chief of Staff	Rahm Emanuel (2009–2010) William Daley (2011–2012) Jack Lew (2012–2013) Denis McDonough (2013–2017)
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency	Lisa Jackson (2009–2013) Gina McCarthy (2013–2017)
Director of the Office of Management and Budget	Peter Orszag (2009–2010) Jack Lew (2010–2012) Sylvia Mathews Burwell (2013–2014) Shaun Donovan (2014–2017)
Trade Representative	Ron Kirk (2009–2013) Michael Froman (2013–2017)
Ambassador to the United Nations	Susan Rice (2009–2013) Samantha Power (2013–2017)
Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers	Christina Romer (2009–2010) Austan Goolsbee (2010–2011) Alan Krueger (2011–2013) Jason Furman (2013–2017)
Administrator of the Small Business Administration	Karen Mills (2012–2013)** Maria Contreras-Sweet (2014–2017)

* Acting
** took office in 2009, raised to cabinet-rank in 2012

Chairs of the Council of Economic Advisers
Nourse Keyserling Burns Saulnier Heller Ackley Okun McCracken Stein Greenspan Schultze Weidenbaum Feldstein Sprinkel Boskin Tyson Stiglitz Yellen Baily Hubbard Mankiw Rosen Bernanke Lazear Romer Goolsbee Krueger Furman Hassett Rouse Bernstein

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