Ernie Tedeschi Keynote Speaker

  • Chief Economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers (2021-2023)
  • Director of Economics at The Budget Lab at Yale Law School
  • Visiting Fellow at the Psaros Center for Financial Markets and Policy at Georgetown University

Ernie Tedeschi's Biography

Ernie Tedeschi is a rare macroeconomist with private sector, government, and academic experience. He is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Budget Lab, having previously been the Director of Economics.

Until March 2024, Ernie was the Chief Economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers, where among other things he briefed President Biden on incoming economic data. Prior to CEA, he was Managing Director and Head of Fiscal Analysis at Evercore ISI, a macro advisory firm. He was also previously an economist at the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

Ernie completed his undergraduate studies at Stanford University and graduate work at the University of California at Berkeley.

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Ernie Tedeschi's Speaking Topics

  • Real-time economic policy making under uncertainty:

  • How did the pandemic economy look from the White House's perspective?
  • How do economists interpret data for the President?
  • How did we react to incoming inflation and jobs data?
    • The US Outlook:

  • How does the US look economically?
  • What are the risks?
  • How might policy look under either Biden or Trump?
  • What is Fed thinking?
    • Economics from different perspectives:

    How does economics in the public, private, and academic sectors differ?

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