Phillip Swagel

Phil Swagel
10th Director of the Congressional Budget Office
Incumbent
Assumed office June 3, 2019
Preceded by	Keith Hall
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy
In office December 11, 2006 – January 20, 2009
President	George W. Bush
Preceded by	Mark Warshawsky
Succeeded by	Alan B. Krueger
Personal details
Born	(1966-06-08) June 8, 1966 (age 58) New York City, New York, U.S.
Political party	Republican
Spouse	Judith K. Hellerstein
Children	3
Education	Princeton University (BA) Harvard University (MA, PhD)

Phillip Lee "Phill" Swagel^[1] (born June 8, 1966)^[2] is an American economist who is currently the director of the Congressional Budget Office. As Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy from 2006 to 2009, he played an important role in the Troubled Asset Relief Program that was part of the U.S. government's response to the financial crisis of 2007–08. He was recently a Professor in International Economics at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, a non-resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, senior fellow at the Milken Institute, and co-chair of the Bipartisan Policy Center's Financial Regulatory Reform Initiative.

Educated at Princeton University and Harvard University, Swagel has taught economics at Northwestern University, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business, in addition to Maryland. He has also worked at the Federal Reserve, the International Monetary Fund, and the White House Council of Economic Advisors.