Ted Gayer Deputy Assistant Secretary for Microeconomic Analysis
Ted Gayer was appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary for Microeconomic Analysis on July 5, 2007. In this role, Gayer oversees the Office of Microeconomic Analysis, which is responsible for the review and analysis of domestic microeconomic issues. He directs research to assist in the formulation and articulation of public policies and positions of the Treasury Department and the Administration on a wide range of economic issues, including pensions, health care, Social Security, flood and terrorism insurance, energy and environmental policy, and various policies impacting specific industries and sectors of the economy. He also represents the Treasury Secretary, Managing Trustee of the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds, in preparation of the Annual Trustees’ Reports.
Gayer is on leave from Georgetown University, where he is an Associate Professor of Public Policy. From 2006 to 2007, he was also a Visiting Fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California in San Francisco. Prior to that, he was a Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. From 2003 to 2004, he was a senior economist on the President's Council of Economic Advisers and from 1999 to 2001, he was a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research at the University of California, Berkeley. He has also served on the EPA’s Science Advisory Board. Gayer’s research and teaching has focused on the fields of environmental and regulatory economics, public finance, and applied microeconomics.
Gayer holds a B.A. from Emory University and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Duke University.
