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Today I would like to announce the current members of both panels.
| Panel of Economic Advisers | Panel of Health Advisers |
| Katharine Abraham | Katherine Baicker |
| Alan Auerbach | Tom Betlach |
| Olivier Blanchard | John Bertko |
| Markus Brunnermeier | Kate Bundorf |
| Mary Daly | Lawrence Casalino |
| Steven Davis | Amitabh Chandra |
| Robert Hall | Michael Chernew |
| Jan Hatzius | Leemore Dafny |
| Anil Kashyap | Roger Feldman |
| Donald Kohn | Amy Finkelstein |
| Nellie Liang | Jay Gellert |
| Gregory Mankiw | Dana Goldman |
| Emi Nakamura | Roy Goldman |
| Jonathan Parker | Brent James |
| Adam Posen | David Lansky |
| James Poterba | Thomas Lee |
| Valerie Ramey | Teresa Miller |
| Brian Sack | Peter Neumann |
| Robert Shimer | Stephen Parente |
| Justin Wolfers | Daniel Polsky |
| Mark Zandi | Lewis Sandy |
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Corrections: On May 26, 2016, this post was corrected to remove David Dranove’s name from the list of health advisers, which was included in error. Dr. Dranove resigned from that panel in August 2015. On May 27, 2016, this post was corrected to add Nellie Liang's name to the list of economic advisers; her name was omitted in error.
Keith Hall is CBO’s Director.