Peter Richard Orszag is an American economist who is a Vice Chairman of Global Banking at Citigroup. He is also a columnist at Bloomberg View and an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Before joining Citigroup, he was a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a contributing columnist for the New York Times Op-Ed page. Prior to that, he was the 37th Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Barack Obama. Other biographies of Orszag are posted on the Congressional Budget Office website and the Council on Foreign... Relations website. Orszag grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts in a Jewish family from Hungarian decent. After graduating from Phillips Exeter Academy with high honors , he earned an A.B. summa cum laude in economics from Princeton University in 1991, and a M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in economics from the London School of Economics. He was a Marshall Scholar 1991–1992, and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He is also a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Science, and serves on the Boards of Directors of Mt.
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