# Ted Gayer > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Ted_Gayer > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Ted_Gayer.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Gayer > Source revision: 1343392766 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|American economist}} {{Infobox officeholder |name = Ted Gayer |office = President of the [Niskanen Center](/source/Niskanen_Center) |term_start = August 1, 2022 |term_end = |predecessor = Joey Coon (acting) |successor = |office1 = President of the [Brookings Institution](/source/Brookings_Institution) |status1 = Acting |term_start1 = June 8, 2022 |term_end1 = July 7, 2022* |predecessor1 = [John R. Allen](/source/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](/source/Emory_University) ([BA](/source/Bachelor_of_Arts))
[Duke University](/source/Duke_University) ([MA](/source/Master_of_Arts), [PhD](/source/Doctor_of_Philosophy)) |footnotes = {{small|*Allen was placed on leave from June 8, 2022 – June 12, 2022}} }} '''Ted Gayer''' (born May 8, 1970) is an American [economist](/source/economics) who is currently president of the [Niskanen Center](/source/Niskanen_Center).{{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}} He was formerly an executive vice president at the [Brookings Institution](/source/Brookings_Institution), where he was also Director of the Economic Studies Program, and the [Joseph A. Pechman](/source/Joseph_A._Pechman) Senior Fellow.{{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/}} On June 12, 2022, Gayer was appointed acting president of the Brookings Institution following the resignation of [John R. Allen](/source/John_R._Allen) that same day.{{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](/source/The_Washington_Post) |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/06/12/brookings-institution-john-allen-resigns/ |access-date=June 16, 2022}} Gayer received a [BA](/source/Bachelor_of_Arts) in mathematics and economics from [Emory University](/source/Emory_University) in 1992, and a [PhD](/source/Doctor_of_Philosophy) in economics from [Duke University](/source/Duke_University) in 1997.{{Cite web |title=www.brookings.edu |url=https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/gayer-cv-022018.docx}} He was an [assistant professor](/source/assistant_professor) of public policy at [Georgetown University](/source/Georgetown_University) from 1997 to 2004, and an [associate professor](/source/associate_professor) of public policy at Georgetown from 2004 to 2009. He served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for [Microeconomic](/source/Microeconomic) Analysis at the [Treasury Department](/source/United_States_Department_of_the_Treasury) from 2007 to 2008, and was a senior economist on the [Council of Economic Advisers](/source/Council_of_Economic_Advisers) from 2003 to 2004. He was a member of the [EPA](/source/United_States_Environmental_Protection_Agency)’s Science Advisory Board from 2004 to 2009, and was appointed a member of the EPA's Superfund Benefits Analysis Advisory Committee in 2005. He was appointed an expert evaluator of the natural resources management indicator for the [Millennium Challenge Corporation](/source/Millennium_Challenge_Corporation) in 2005. From 1999 to 2001, Gayer was a [Robert Wood Johnson](/source/Robert_Wood_Johnson_Foundation) Scholar in Health Policy Research at the [University of California, Berkeley](/source/University_of_California%2C_Berkeley). In the summer of 2006, he was a Lone Mountain Fellow at the [Property and Environment Research Center](/source/Property_and_Environment_Research_Center). From 2006 to 2007 he was a visiting fellow at the [Public Policy Institute of California](/source/Public_Policy_Institute_of_California), and from 2004 to 2006 he was a visiting scholar at the [American Enterprise Institute](/source/American_Enterprise_Institute). His work has been published in the ''[Review of Economics and Statistics](/source/The_Review_of_Economics_and_Statistics)'', ''[Science](/source/Science_(journal))'', the ''[Journal of Economic Literature](/source/Journal_of_Economic_Literature)'', the ''[Journal of Risk and Uncertainty](/source/Journal_of_Risk_and_Uncertainty)'', the ''[Journal of Human Resources](/source/The_Journal_of_Human_Resources)'', the ''[Journal of Regulatory Economics](/source/Journal_of_Regulatory_Economics)'', ''[Regulation](/source/Regulation_(magazine))'', and other journals. He also co-edited (with [W. Kip Viscusi](/source/W._Kip_Viscusi)) the two-volume ''Classics in Risk Management'' and co-authored (with [Harvey Rosen](/source/Harvey_S._Rosen)) the 8th and 9th editions of the textbook ''Public Finance''. ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== * [https://www.niskanencenter.org/author/tgayer/ Niskanen Center biography] *{{C-SPAN|9265243}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Gayer, Ted}} Category:1970 births Category:21st-century American economists Category:Brookings Institution people Category:Duke University alumni Category:Emory University alumni Category:Living people Category:McCourt School of Public Policy faculty --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Ted Gayer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Gayer) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Gayer?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). 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