Robert D. Reischauer

Dr. Robert D. Reischauer is the former director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and nationally known expert on the federal budget, Medicare, and Social Security. His performance in his CBO role at the time of the Clinton health reform proposal is well documented in the David Broder and Haynes Johnson book, The System (1996, 1997), and was a model of how an impartial analyst should perform. Reischauer authored or co-authored numerous scholarly articles in refereed journals and several books on budget policy, health care, and social insurance. He serves on the editorial board of Political Science Quarterly and is a founding member of the National Academy of Social Insurance. Additionally, he is the former member and vice chair of Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. He is one of two public trustees of the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds and member of the board of directors of the Academy of Political Science, and many other organizations. He is the former chair of the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation board. Reischauer has served on Board of Overseers at Harvard College and is now the Senior Fellow of the Harvard Corporation. He is respected on matters of budget and health care policy and contributes to opinion pages of major newspapers, comments on public policy on radio and television, and is regularly invited to testify before congressional committees. Last, he is a member of the Institute of Medicine and former Senior Fellow of the Brookings Institution.