Andrew Alan Samwick is an American economist

Economist

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, who served as Chief Economist on the staff of the United States President's Council of Economic Advisors from July 2003 to July 2004. Samwick is currently Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...

 (since 1994) and the director of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences. He has also held teaching positions at Columbia University

Columbia University

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’s Graduate School of Business. In 2009, Samwick was named the New Hampshire Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

Education

Samwick received an A.B. summa cum laude and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa in Economics at Harvard College

Harvard College

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 in 1989. He received his Ph.D. in Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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 in 1993. At MIT, he was the recipient of several grants and fellowships including: the National Institute on Aging

National Institute on Aging

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, Pre-doctoral Training Grant (1992–1993), the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Fellowship (1992–1993) and the National Science Foundation

National Science Foundation

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 Graduate Fellowship (1989–1992).

Research and advising

Samwick has consulted for the Canadian government, the U.S. Social Security Administration

Social Security Administration

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, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation

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, and the World Bank

World Bank

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. Professor Samwick has also offered Congressional testimony on Social Security and retirement issues.

He is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research

National Bureau of Economic Research

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 and the co-organizer of its Social Security Working Group. His research interests include: finance

Finance

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, macroeconomics

Macroeconomics

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, Social Security

Social Security (United States)

In the United States, Social Security refers to the federal Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance program.The original Social Security Act and the current version of the Act, as amended encompass several social welfare and social insurance programs...

, saving, and taxation. His work has appeared in The American Economic Review, The Journal of Political Economy and The Journal of Finance among others. In 2000, Professor Samwick was awarded Dartmouth's Karen E. Wetterhahn Award for Distinguished Creative or Scholarly Achievement.

External links

• About the Director — Rockefeller Center
• Publications by Andrew Samwick — National Bureau of Economic Research
• VoxBaby — Andrew Samwick's blog