Event — 2022 Whittington Lecture with CEA Chair Cecilia Rouse

Cecilia Rouse is currently serving as the 30th Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA). She was nominated by President Joe Biden in November 2020 and is the first African American to hold this position. Prior to her role at CEA, Rouse served as the dean of the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and as a member of President Barack Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, a three-member panel that provided the president with analysis and advice on a wide range of domestic and international economic policy issues. Rouse also worked at the National Economic Council in the Clinton Administration as a Special Assistant to the President. As a labor economist, Rouse focuses on the economics of education. She is the founding director of the Princeton Education Research Section and a member of the National Academy of Education. Rouse is also senior editor of The Future of Children, a policy journal published by the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and the Brookings Institution, and serves on the editorial board of the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. 

Introduction:

Brooke LePage (MPP-E‘23), Whittington Scholar, McCourt School of Public Policy

Remarks: “Rebuilding Our Economy: How Government Can Help Lay the Foundation for Economic Growth”

Cecilia Rouse, Chair, President’s Council of Economic Advisers

Q&A:

Maria Cancian, Dean, McCourt School of Public Policy (moderator)

Our annual Whittington Lecture and Scholarship are named after then-GPPI Associate Dean and Professor Leslie Whittington who, along with her husband and two children, died on September 11, 2001. The Whittington Lecture and Scholarship allow us to celebrate Leslie’s memory, her passion for teaching and her service to our community.