Peter R. Orszag currently serves as the Director of the Congressional Budget Office. Before joining CBO in 2007, Dr. Orszag was the Joseph A. Pechman Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution. Dr. Orszag also served as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and as Senior Economic Adviser at the National Economic Council from 1997 to 1998. He had earlier served as a staff economist and then Senior Adviser and Senior Economist at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers.  Dr. Orszag earned his bachelor's degree in economics from Princeton University, followed by an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in economics from the London School of Economics. He has coauthored or coedited a numerous books, including Protecting the Homeland 2006/7 (2006), Aging Gracefully: Ideas to Improve Retirement Security in America (2006), and Saving Social Security: A Balanced Approach (2004), and American Economic Policy in the 1990s (2002).