Christina Romer

About Christina Romer

President Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisers was chaired by a distinguished economist.

Christina Duckworth Romer was Garff B. Wilson Professor of Economics in 1957 at the University of California at Berkeley and former Chair of the Obama Administration's Economic Advisory Council. She resigned from the Economic Advisory Board on September 3, 2010. After being appointed and before the Obama administration took office, Romer worked with economist Jared Bernstein to co-write the administration's plan to recovering from the 2008 recession. In a video presentation in January 2009, she discussed in detail the job creation program that the Obama administration has submitted to Congress.

Preceded by	Edward Lazear
Education	College of William & Mary (BA), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA, PhD)
Succeeded by	Austan Goolsbee
Spouse(s)	David Romer
Born	Christina Duckworth, December 25, 1958, Alton, Illinois, U.S.
President	Barack Obama
Political party	Democratic

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Trivia

She conducted extensive economic research into the causes of The Great Depression.

Christina Romer before fame

She went on to become an assistant professor at Princeton University and a full professor at the University of California-Berkeley after receiving her Ph.D. from MIT.

Achievement of Christina Romer

She did a lot of economic research to figure out what caused the Great Depression.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

Undisclosed

Christina Romer family life

She married David Romer, a fellow economist.

Associations of Christina Romer

She advised President-elect Barack Obama to approve a stimulus package to aid the economy, and Obama followed her advice in 2009.

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