# Andrew Samwick > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Andrew_Samwick > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Andrew_Samwick.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Samwick > Source revision: 1353027290 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|American economist}} '''Andrew Alan Samwick''' is an American [economist](/source/economist), who served as Chief Economist on the staff of the [United States President](/source/President_of_the_United_States_of_America)'s [Council of Economic Advisors](/source/Council_of_Economic_Advisors) from July 2003 to July 2004. Samwick is currently Professor of Economics at [Dartmouth College](/source/Dartmouth_College) (since 1994) and the director of the [Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences](/source/Nelson_A._Rockefeller_Center). He has also held teaching positions at [Columbia University](/source/Columbia_University)’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](/source/Carnegie_Foundation_for_the_Advancement_of_Teaching).{{cite news|url=http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/News/StateNewEngland/440358-227/dartmouth-economics-professor-wins-state-award.html|title=Dartmouth economics professor wins state award |date=November 18, 2009|publisher=Nashua Telegraph, via the Associated Press|accessdate=15 December 2009}} He is also a current editor of [Economics Letters](/source/Economics_Letters). ==Education== Samwick received a [Bachelor of Arts](/source/Bachelor_of_Arts), ''[summa cum laude](/source/summa_cum_laude)'', in economics and was a member of [Phi Beta Kappa](/source/Phi_Beta_Kappa) at [Harvard College](/source/Harvard_College) in 1989.{{cite web|url=http://rockefeller.dartmouth.edu/about/director.html |title=About the Director |publisher=Trustees of Dartmouth College |accessdate=15 December 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070811011455/http://rockefeller.dartmouth.edu/about/director.html |archivedate=11 August 2007 }} He received his Ph.D. in Economics at the [Massachusetts Institute of Technology](/source/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology) in 1993. At MIT, he was the recipient of several grants and fellowships including: the [National Institute on Aging](/source/National_Institute_on_Aging), Pre-doctoral Training Grant (1992–1993), the Lynde and Harry [Bradley Foundation](/source/Bradley_Foundation) Fellowship (1992–1993) and the [National Science Foundation](/source/National_Science_Foundation) Graduate Fellowship (1989–1992). ==Career== Samwick has consulted for the [Canadian government](/source/Canadian_government), the [U.S. Social Security Administration](/source/Social_Security_Administration), the [Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation](/source/Pension_Benefit_Guaranty_Corporation), and the [World Bank](/source/World_Bank). 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](/source/National_Bureau_of_Economic_Research) and the co-organizer of its Social Security Working Group. His research interests include: [finance](/source/finance), [macroeconomics](/source/macroeconomics), [Social Security](/source/Social_Security_(United_States)), [saving](/source/saving), and [taxation](/source/taxation). His work has appeared in ''[The American Economic Review](/source/The_American_Economic_Review)'', ''[The Journal of Political Economy](/source/The_Journal_of_Political_Economy)'' and ''[The Journal of Finance](/source/The_Journal_of_Finance)'' among others. In 2000, Professor Samwick was awarded Dartmouth's Karen E. Wetterhahn Award for Distinguished Creative or Scholarly Achievement.{{cite web|url=https://www.dartmouth.edu/~dartlife/archives/19-5/nhprofessor.html|title=Dartmouth Life - Economist Andrew Samwick: New Hampshire Professor of the Year |last=Gatlin|first=Latarsha|publisher=Trustees of Dartmouth College|accessdate=15 December 2009}} Writing on his blog in 2007, Samwick urged his former colleagues in the Bush administration to avoid asserting that the [Bush tax cuts](/source/Bush_tax_cuts) paid for themselves, because "No thoughtful person believes [it]... Not a single one."{{Cite web|url=https://voxbaby.blogspot.com/2007/01/new-years-plea.html|title=A New Year's Plea}} In 2024, Samwick signed a faculty letter expressing support for Dartmouth College president [Sian Beilock](/source/Sian_Beilock), who ordered the arrests of 90 students and faculty members protesting the [Gaza war](/source/Gaza_war).{{Cite web|title=Letter to the Editor: We Dartmouth Faculty Members Support the Recent Actions by College President Sian Leah Beilock|url=https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2024/05/we-dartmouth-faculty-members-support-the-recent-actions-by-college-president-sian-leah-beilock|access-date=2024-06-10|website=The Dartmouth|language=en}}{{Cite news |last=Patel |first=Vimal |date=2024-05-03 |title=Police Treatment of a Dartmouth Professor Stirs Anger and Debate |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/03/us/dartmouth-professor-police-protests.html |access-date=2024-05-05 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}{{cite web |title=Adkins: Dozens of people arrested at pro-Palestine protest at Dartmouth College |url=https://www.wmur.com/article/dartmouth-college-pro-palestine-camp-new-hampshire/60657838 |website= WMUR 9 News |access-date=May 2, 2024 |date=May 1, 2024}} ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070811011455/http://rockefeller.dartmouth.edu/about/director.html About the Director] — Rockefeller Center *[https://www.nber.org/authors/andrew_samwick Publications by Andrew Samwick] — National Bureau of Economic Research *[https://samwick.blogspot.com/ Andrew Samwick's Blog] — Andrew Samwick's Blog about Economics, Politics, and Current Events *{{Google Scholar id|OYTKAqwAAAAJ}} *{{cite web|title=Andrew Samwick|url=https://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/psa395.htm|publisher=[EconPapers](/source/EconPapers)}} *{{cite web|title=Andrew Samwick|url=https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=au%3A%22Andrew+Samwick%22+&acc=off&wc=on&fc=off&group=none|publisher=[JSTOR](/source/JSTOR)}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Samwick, Andrew}} Category:Harvard College alumni Category:MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences alumni Category:Columbia Business School faculty Category:Dartmouth College faculty Category:21st-century American economists Category:Living people Category:Fellows of the Bradley Foundation Category:Year of birth missing (living people) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Andrew Samwick](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Samwick) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Samwick?action=history)). 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