Holtz-Eakin to head CBO.

• Position: Bureau News - Douglas J. Holtz-Eakin; Congressional Budget Office - Brief Article

Douglas J. Holtz-Eakin, who has been affiliated with the NBER since 1985, has been chosen to head the Congressional Budget Office. On leave as a professor of economics at Syracuse University, he most recently had been Chief Economist of the President's Council of Economic Advisers (CEA).

In the past, Holtz-Eakin held academic appointments at Columbia University and Princeton University. He also served as Senior Staff Economist of the CEA in 1989-90.

Holtz-Eakin's...