Senior Policy Analyst, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget
Jeff Vanke is a senior policy analyst at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He works on all Federal budgeting issues, including the revenues effects of various individual income tax policies, rates, and brackets. Dr. Vanke is also a historian of politics and economy in postwar Europe and the world, and he is the author of Europeanism and European Union, a history of European integration. He graduated magna cum laude from Duke University and obtained his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He taught history and international studies at Guilford College in Greensboro, N.C. Dr. Vanke has lived in various European countries, speaks German, French, and Italian, and follows comparative developments in national budgeting and national policies across the OECD.