Kevin Hassett, Former Chair, Council of Economic Advisers

Kevin Hassett is currently Vice President and Managing Director of the Lindsey Group, a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a CNN Economics Commentator. In June 2019, he left the White House where he served as the 29th Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers.  Kevin previously served as research director at the American Enterprise Institute, as a senior economist at the Federal Reserve, and as a faculty member at Columbia University. Hassett was a senior adviser on Mitt Romney's 2012 campaign, and prior to that served as John McCain's chief economic adviser in the 2000 presidential primaries and an economic adviser to the campaigns of George W. Bush in the 2004 presidential election and McCain in the presidential election of 2008.