Christina Romer: Obama's Chair Of The Council Of Economic Advisers

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Christina Romer, University of California-Berkeley economics professor, will be tapped to be President-elect Barack Obama's chair of the Council of Economic Advisers.

From ABC:

Romer, a widely respected economist with an expertise on the U.S. economy, will be one of the key economic advisers whom Mr. Obama will introduce to the nation this morning, along with New York Federal Reserve president Timothy Geithner, tapped to be Obama's nominee for Secretary of the Treasury, and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, who will serve as the director of the National Economic Council.

Romer and her husband David, also an economist at Berkeley, are members of the Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research, which decides when a recession has officially started or ended.