Andrew Samwick
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Andrew Alan Samwick is an American economist
Economist
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, who served as Chief Economist on the staff of the United States President's Council of Economic Advisors from July 2003 to July 2004. Samwick is currently Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...

 (since 1994) and the director of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences. He has also held teaching positions at Columbia University
Columbia University
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’s Graduate School of Business. In 2009, Samwick was named the New Hampshire Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

Education

Samwick received an A.B. summa cum laude and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa in Economics at Harvard College
Harvard College
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 in 1989. He received his Ph.D. in Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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 in 1993. At MIT, he was the recipient of several grants and fellowships including: the National Institute on Aging
National Institute on Aging
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, Pre-doctoral Training Grant (1992–1993), the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Fellowship (1992–1993) and the National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation
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 Graduate Fellowship (1989–1992).

Research and advising

Samwick has consulted for the Canadian government, the U.S. Social Security Administration
Social Security Administration
The United States Social Security Administration is an independent agency of the United States federal government that administers Social Security, a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability, and survivors' benefits...

, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
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, and the World Bank
World Bank
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. Professor Samwick has also offered Congressional testimony on Social Security and retirement issues.

He is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research
National Bureau of Economic Research
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 and the co-organizer of its Social Security Working Group. His research interests include: finance
Finance
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, macroeconomics
Macroeconomics
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, Social Security
Social Security (United States)
In the United States, Social Security refers to the federal Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance program.The original Social Security Act and the current version of the Act, as amended encompass several social welfare and social insurance programs...

, saving, and taxation. His work has appeared in The American Economic Review, The Journal of Political Economy and The Journal of Finance among others. In 2000, Professor Samwick was awarded Dartmouth's Karen E. Wetterhahn Award for Distinguished Creative or Scholarly Achievement.

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