Alan Krueger

Alan B. Krueger is the chairman of President Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisers and a member of the cabinet. Mr. Krueger was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on November 3, 2011. Previously, Mr. Krueger served in the Obama administration as assistant secretary for economic policy and chief economist at the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

He is currently on leave from Princeton University, where he is the Bendheim Professor of Economics and Public Affairs. He has held a joint appointment in the economics department and the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton since 1987. In 1994-95 Mr. Krueger served as chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor.

Prior to assuming his current position, Mr. Krueger was a member of the board of directors of the MacArthur Foundation and the Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education at Charles University in the Czech Republic, and a senior scientist for the Gallup Organization.

Alan Krueger received a B.S. degree, with honors, from Cornell University's School of Industrial & Labor Relations in 1983, an A.M. in Economics from Harvard University in 1985, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 1987.