Dr. Holtz-Eakin is senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and president of DHE Consulting, LLC. He also served as policy director for John McCain’s 2008 bid for president. A former director of the Congressional Budget Office, Dr. Holtz-Eakin was a member of the Council of Economic Advisers under President George H.W.Bush, and the chief economist under George W. Bush. He has also held academic appointments at Columbia, Princeton, and Syracuse Universities and was director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies and the Paul A. Volcker Chair in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations.