Public Program Preview: Keith Hennessey, The Brooks Family Lecture

Former Director, National Economic Council
Research Fellow, Hoover Institution

"The Size and Scope of Government in an Aging America"

Monday, February 21, 2011
4:30 PM • Room 3, Rockefeller Center

 

Keith Hennessey is a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He teaches as a lecturer at Stanford Business School and Stanford Law School. He serves as a member of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, a bipartisan commission created by Congress to examine the causes, domestic and global, of the current economic and financial crisis in the United States. He writes about American economic policy on his blog, KeithHennessey.com, named one of the 25 best economics blogs by The Wall Street Journal.

 

Hennessey served as the senior White House economic advisor to President George W. Bush. He coordinated economic policy for the President, including financial market issues, tax policy, energy and climate change, health care, Social Security and Medicare reform, housing, technology and telecommunications, and agriculture. From August 2002 through the end of 2007, Hennessey served as Deputy Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Deputy Director of the National Economic Council. During the financial crisis of 2008 he was Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Director of the National Economic Council.

 

Before working in the White House Hennessey spent eight years on Capitol Hill, most of it working as Economic Policy Advisor to Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-MS). He also worked for Senator Pete Domenici (R-NM) on the staff of the Senate Budget Committee, and on the staff of the 1994 Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform.