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About the Director

Photograph of Peter R. Orszag Peter R. Orszag is the seventh Director of CBO. His four-year term began on January 18, 2007. Before joining CBO, Dr. Orszag was a senior fellow and Deputy Director of Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution. In previous government service, Dr. Orszag served as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Senior Economic Adviser at the National Economic Council. Earlier, he served as a staff economist and then Senior Adviser and Senior Economist at the President's Council of Economic Advisers.  pdf  photo  blog
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About the Deputy Director

Photograph of Robert A. Sunshine Robert A. Sunshine, CBO's Deputy Director, has been with the agency almost since its inception. He previously served as the Assistant Director for Budget Analysis, where he supervised the preparation of cost estimates, baseline spending estimates, the analysis of the President's budget, and work related to the budget scorekeeping system. He also coordinated work on CBO's Monthly Budget Review. In 2003, he received the AABPA's James L. Blum Award for exceptional and distinguished accomplishment and leadership in public budgeting.
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