Peter Orszag

Peter Orszag is a leading banker and economist, a previous senior government official, and an author and contributor of several books. As a co-editor of American Economic Policy in the 1990s, he examined lessons for policymakers from the experiences of the 1990s. He currently is the Vice Chairman and Managing Director at Lazard Freres & Co LLC in New York, where he also serves as Global Co-Head of Healthcare. In addition, as a weekly contributor for Bloomberg View, Peter Orszag's columns cover a range of topics concerning economics, health care, and political economy.

Orszag and coauthors have examined current trends in retirement and offered ideas for reform that would help Americans save in Aging Gracefully: Ideas to Improve Retirement Security in America. With Peter Diamond (awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2010), Peter Orszag discussed ways to preserve Social Security in Saving Social Security: A Balanced Approach.

He was previously the Vice Chairman of Corporate and Investment Banking at Citigroup, where he also served as the Chairman of the Financial Strategy and Solutions Group. Other positions include serving as the 37th Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Obama. Before OMB, Peter Orszag was the Director of the Congressional Budget Office. He has also served as a Senior Economist and Senior Adviser on the Council of Economic Advisers, and as a Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy under President Clinton.

Orszag serves on the Board of Directors of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, Mt. Sinai Hospital, and the Russell Sage Foundation. Orszag received a bachelor's degree in economics from Princeton and his master's and doctorate from the London School of Economics.