Policy Responses to the Great Recession: The Interaction of Leadership and Economic Ideas
As Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers from January 2009 until September 2010, Christina Romer was one of the four economic principals who met with President Obama daily to design and guide the Administration's response to the Great Recession. She played a key role in the rescue and reform of the financial system, health care reform, and budget policy. Romer is the Class of 1957-Garff B. Wilson Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and co-director of the Program in Monetary Economics at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She will discuss the impact of the recession and subsequent economic policies on various demographic groups, including women and young people. The Fall 2011 Mary Louise Smith Chair in Women and Politics and part of the Women's Leadership Series.