Alan Viard
Alan Viard was a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and an assistant professor of economics at Ohio State University prior to joining AEI.
Alan has also worked for the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Tax Analysis, the White House's Council of Economic Advisers and the Joint Committee on Taxation of the U.S. Congress. Viard is a frequent contributor to AEI's Tax Policy Outlook, AEI's On the Margin column in Tax Notes and AEI's Marginal Impact column in State Tax Notes. In January 2010, he was named by Tax Notes as a nominee for 2009 Tax Person of the Year. Viard is also the co-author of Progressive Consumption Taxation: The X Tax Revisited published in May 2012.
Experience - Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, 1998-2006
- Visiting Scholar, Office of Tax Analysis, Treasury Department, 2005
- Senior Economist, President's Council of Economic Advisers, 2003-2004
- Assistant Professor of Economics, Ohio State University, 1990-98
- Economist, Joint Committee on Taxation, U.S. Congress, 1992-93
Education - Ph.D., M.A., economics, Harvard University
- B.A., economics, Yale University