Chief Economist

Biography

Diane Lim Rogers joined the Concord Coalition in April 2008 as the organization’s first Chief Economist as well as their first "blogger" (EconomistMom.com). At Concord she writes issue briefs, gives speeches, and provides general expertise on the economic effects of federal budget and tax policy. She was previously Chief Economist for the House Budget Committee from January 2007 to April 2008, where she served Chairman John Spratt and other Democratic members of the Committee. In 2006 she was Research Director of the Budgeting for National Priorities project at the Brookings Institution. While at Brookings she published several opinion pieces emphasizing the importance of fiscal responsibility and a paper on “Reducing the Deficit through Better Tax Policy,” and she also participated in the Concord Coalition’s "Fiscal Wake-Up Tour."

From 2004 to 2006 Dr. Rogers served as Chief Economist for the House Ways and Means Committee Democrats, and prior to that was a Principal Economist covering tax and budget policies for the Joint Economic Committee Democrats. She was a Senior Economist on the staff of the Council of Economic Advisers during the last year of the Clinton Administration and first 100 days of the Bush Administration, and in President Clinton’s final Economic Report of the President (2001) drafted the sections extolling the merits of fiscal discipline. Dr. Rogers has also worked at the Urban Institute and the Congressional Budget Office, and was Assistant Professor of Economics at Penn State University.

Throughout her career, Dr. Rogers’ research has focused on the behavioral, distributional, and macroeconomic effects of U.S. fiscal policies. She continues to teach as an Adjunct Professor for the School of Public Policy and Public Administration at George Washington University.

Dr. Rogers received her B.A. in Economics from the University of Michigan in 1983, her M.A. from Brown University in 1984, and her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1991. But more notably, she is the proud mother of four—three daughters and a son.

Blog Posts

• Good Lesson at the Naval War College: A Strong Defense and Fiscal Responsibility Are Not Mutually Exclusive
• Yes, Fiscal Hawks Can Walk and Chew Gum at the Same Time
• Who should pay the costs of the oil spill? All of us, really.
• Why the President Should Break His Promise on Taxes
• What matters is "marginal" job creation and "marginal" deficit reduction

Quoted News Articles

• Rep. Ryan Gets An Audience
• Do Benefits Discourage The Unemployed From Job Searching?
• Jobless Pay Fray Cuts Valley Lifeline
• Jobless pay fray cuts Valley lifeline
• Unemployment Benefits Are Not A Deficit Issue
• Economic Recovery: Stimulus vs. Deficit
• Extension Of Bush Tax Cuts Could Test Republicans' Deficit Reduction Resolve
• Debt Woes Make Bush Tax Cuts Hard To Extend
• Our View: Stimulus Must Be Targeted
• Touting Gains, Obama Pushes For More Economic Aid
• Bush-ama tax cuts: The $2.2 trillion decision
• Third-party groups join chorus clamoring for 2011 federal budget
• I.O.U.S.A. Solutions: America's Debt Crisis
• 'IOUSA Solutions': Deficit explosion
• Controlling Medicare Costs: New Board Will Wield Power, But Will Congress Go Along?
• New health care bill: Deficit cuts hinge on Congress circa 2020
• Is healthcare reform headed toward a dead end for cost control?
• Obama budget wouldn't trim trillion-dollar deficits until 2012
• The President’s Economic Report: Sticking to the Script on Tax Policy and the Fiscal Outlook
• On Measuring Success by the Money You Spend