Douglas Holtz-Eakin is the president of the American Action Forum. Holtz-Eakin has an esteemed record as a researcher and policy adviser. During 1989–90, he was senior economist for the Council of Economic Advisers, where he subsequently served as chief economist in 2001–02. He was the sixth director of the Congressional Budget Office from 2003–05, and then became director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies and the Paul A. Volcker Chair in international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. During 2007–08, he was director of domestic and economic policy for the John McCain presidential campaign. Holtz-Eakin was a commissioner on the congressionally chartered Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, serves on the boards of the Tax Foundation and National Academy of Social Insurance, and is a member of the Aspen Economic Strategy Group. He taught at Columbia University in 1985, and at Syracuse University from 1990–2001. Holtz-Eakin received a BA in economics and mathematics from Denison University, and a PhD in economics from Princeton University.