William G. Gale

William Gale is the Arjay and Frances Fearing Miller Chair in Federal Economic Policy at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. His research focuses on fiscal policy, tax policy, and pensions and saving behavior. He is co-founder and co-director of the Tax Policy Center, a joint venture of the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution. From 2006-2009, he served as Vice President and Director of Economic Studies at Brookings. Prior to joining Brookings in 1992, he was an assistant professor in the Economics Department at UCLA. He also served as a senior economist on the Council of Economic Advisers under President George H.W. Bush in 1991-92.

His work has been published in leading academic journals as well as policy-related outlets such as CNN, Financial Times, LA Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. Gale has a bachelor's degree from Duke University (1981), and a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University (1987). He attended the London School of Economics in 1979-80 as an undergraduate. He is an avid tennis player, an aspiring yogi, a member of the Board of the Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia, and the first vice-President of the National Tax Association, and a person who stutters. He is the father of two grown children.