Director
Douglas W. Elmendorf is the eighth Director of the Congressional Budget Office. He was initially appointed on January 22, 2009, to complete the previous four-year term of office; he was later reappointed to serve through January 3, 2015.
Before he came to CBO, Doug Elmendorf was a senior fellow and the Edward M. Bernstein Scholar in the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution. He was previously an assistant professor at Harvard University, a principal analyst at the Congressional Budget Office, a senior economist at the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers, a deputy assistant secretary for economic policy at the Treasury Department, and an assistant director of the Division of Research and Statistics at the Federal Reserve Board. In those positions, he worked on budget policy, Social Security, Medicare, health care issues, financial markets, macroeconomic analysis and forecasting, and other topics. He earned his Ph.D. and A.M. in economics from Harvard University, where he was a National Science Foundation graduate fellow, and his A.B. summa cum laude from Princeton University. (Download his vita)
Deputy Director
Robert A. Sunshine is CBO’s Deputy Director, a post he assumed in 2007. Before then, he was the Assistant Director for Budget Analysis for eight years. In that capacity, he oversaw much of the work of the agency. He supervised the preparation of cost estimates and intergovernmental mandate statements (which identify the costs of federal mandates on state, local, or tribal governments) for legislation being considered by the Congress. He managed the preparation of CBO’s multiyear projections of federal spending that constitute the “baseline” for the Congressional budget process; the agency’s annual analysis of the President’s budget; and its ongoing estimates of spending for the Congress’s budget scorekeeping system. He also coordinated the preparation of CBO’s Monthly Budget Review. In 2003, he received the James L. Blum Award for exceptional and distinguished accomplishment and leadership in public budgeting from the American Association for Budget and Program Analysis.
Bob Sunshine has been with CBO almost from its inception. From 1995 to 1999, he was the Deputy Assistant Director of the Budget Analysis Division. From 1978 to 1994, he served as Chief of the Natural and Physical Resources Cost Estimates Unit in that division. For the two years before that, he was a principal analyst in the Budget Analysis Division, covering transportation issues. Before coming to CBO, he was a senior associate with Simat, Helliesen and Eichner, Inc., a transportation consulting firm.
Associate Director for Economic Analysis
Jeffrey Kling is an economist who joined CBO in July 2009. He has conducted research on public housing, incarceration, retirement security, Medicare’s prescription drug program, unemployment insurance, and other aspects of public policy in the United States. His work has been published in the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and elsewhere. Previously, he was the Joseph A. Pechman Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution. From 1998 to 2005, he was a faculty member at Princeton University. In earlier government service, he was a special assistant to the Secretary of Labor and an assistant to the chief economist at the World Bank. He earned his Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his A.B. from Harvard University.
Associate Director for Legislative Affairs
Edward “Sandy” Davis has been employed with CBO since 1996 and prior to his 2003 appointment to his current role was a senior analyst specializing in Congressional budget procedures and practices. He joined CBO after serving for many years as an analyst with the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress, first as an analyst specializing in American national government and then as a senior budget process specialist. He holds a B.A. in political science from Randolph-Macon College.
Associate Director for Communications
Deborah Kilroe joined CBO as the head of its communications office in April 2011. Before coming to the agency, she spent five years working in communications in the Federal Reserve System. Most recently, she was a vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where she oversaw media relations and public affairs, and she previously worked in the public affairs office at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C. Before joining the Federal Reserve Board, Deborah Kilroe spent 15 years as a journalist, during which time she specialized in covering economics, monetary policy, financial markets, and politics. Her journalism career began at States News Service in Washington, covering the Congress and the Administration. She went on to be a staff writer at The Record, in New Jersey, focusing on municipal government. She later became an economics reporter at Bridge News in New York and at Dow Jones Newswires in Washington. She also worked as a senior producer for AOLTV and has been an on-air contributor to CNBC, MSNBC, and PBS’s Nightly Business Report. She holds a B.S. in journalism from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
General Counsel
Mark Hadley became CBO’s General Counsel in September 2008, advancing from the post of Deputy General Counsel, which he had held since 2006. Before that, he worked for an international law firm, where he represented issuers, commercial banks, and investment banks in the structuring of financial products, management of assets, and negotiation of financial transactions. Prior to his legal career, he was an associate analyst at CBO for five years—during which time his areas of responsibility were air transportation, deposit insurance, and credit reform—and a financial specialist with the Small Business Administration. Mark Hadley holds a J.D. from George Washington University; an M.P.P. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison; and a B.A. from Truman State University, in Kirksville, Missouri.
| Title | Name |
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| Director | Doug Elmendorf |
| Deputy Director | Robert A. Sunshine |
| Special Assistant | Leigh S. Angres |
| Executive Assistant | Brianne B. Hutchinson |
| Associate Director for Communications | Deborah Kilroe |
| Web Developer | Robert Dean |
| Webmaster | Annette W. Kalicki |
| Webmaster | Simone Thomas |
| Associate Director for Economic Analysis | Jeffrey Kling |
| Associate Director for Legislative Affairs | Edward (Sandy) Davis |
| General Counsel | Mark P. Hadley |
| Deputy General Counsel | T. J. McGrath |
| Senior Counsel | Rebecca Verreau |
| Chief Acquisition Officer | Caryn Rotheim |
| Contract Specialist/Legal Assistant | Chayim Rosito |
