{{short description|American economist}} {{Infobox officeholder |name = Ted Gayer |office = President of the Niskanen Center |term_start = August 1, 2022 |term_end = |predecessor = Joey Coon (acting) |successor = |office1 = President of the Brookings Institution |status1 = Acting |term_start1 = June 8, 2022 |term_end1 = July 7, 2022* |predecessor1 = John R. Allen |successor1 = Amy Liu (Acting) |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1970|5|8}} |birth_place = |death_date = |death_place = |education = Emory University (BA)<br>Duke University (MA, PhD) |footnotes = {{small|<nowiki>*</nowiki>Allen was placed on leave from June 8, 2022 – June 12, 2022}} }} '''Ted Gayer''' (born May 8, 1970) is an American economist who is currently president of the Niskanen Center.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-05-31 |title=PRESS RELEASE: Niskanen welcomes Ted Gayer as new President |url=https://www.niskanencenter.org/press-release-niskanen-welcomes-ted-gayer-as-new-president/ |access-date=2022-08-01 |website=Niskanen Center |language=en}}</ref> He was formerly an executive vice president at the Brookings Institution, where he was also Director of the Economic Studies Program, and the Joseph A. Pechman Senior Fellow.<ref>{{Cite web |date=17 April 2018 |title=Ted Gayer promoted to executive vice president of Brookings and Emily Horne to join as vice president of communications |url=https://www.brookings.edu/news-releases/ted-gayer-promoted-to-executive-vice-president-of-brookings-and-emily-horne-to-join-as-vice-president-of-communications/}}</ref> On June 12, 2022, Gayer was appointed acting president of the Brookings Institution following the resignation of John R. Allen that same day.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Thebault |first1=Reis |last2=Kitchener |first2=Caroline |last3=Horton |first3=Alex |date=June 12, 2022 |title=Retired general resigns as head of Brookings amid federal probe |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/06/12/brookings-institution-john-allen-resigns/ |access-date=June 16, 2022}}</ref>
Gayer received a BA in mathematics and economics from Emory University in 1992, and a PhD in economics from Duke University in 1997.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=www.brookings.edu |url=https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/gayer-cv-022018.docx}}</ref> He was an assistant professor of public policy at Georgetown University from 1997 to 2004, and an associate professor of public policy at Georgetown from 2004 to 2009.<ref name=":0" />
He served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Microeconomic Analysis at the Treasury Department from 2007 to 2008, and was a senior economist on the Council of Economic Advisers from 2003 to 2004.<ref name=":0" /> He was a member of the EPA’s Science Advisory Board from 2004 to 2009, and was appointed a member of the EPA's Superfund Benefits Analysis Advisory Committee in 2005.<ref name=":0" /> He was appointed an expert evaluator of the natural resources management indicator for the Millennium Challenge Corporation in 2005.<ref name=":0" />
From 1999 to 2001, Gayer was a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research at the University of California, Berkeley.<ref name=":0" /> In the summer of 2006, he was a Lone Mountain Fellow at the Property and Environment Research Center.<ref name=":0" /> From 2006 to 2007 he was a visiting fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California, and from 2004 to 2006 he was a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.<ref name=":0" />
His work has been published in the ''Review of Economics and Statistics'', ''Science'', the ''Journal of Economic Literature'', the ''Journal of Risk and Uncertainty'', the ''Journal of Human Resources'', the ''Journal of Regulatory Economics'', ''Regulation'', and other journals. He also co-edited (with W. Kip Viscusi) the two-volume ''Classics in Risk Management'' and co-authored (with Harvey Rosen) the 8th and 9th editions of the textbook ''Public Finance''.<ref name=":0" />
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==External links== * [https://www.niskanencenter.org/author/tgayer/ Niskanen Center biography] *{{C-SPAN|9265243}}
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