While working at the U.S. Treasury Department from 2006 to 2009, former Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy Phillip L. Swagel advised Secretary Henry Paulson on all aspects of economic policy, including current and prospective macroeconomic developments and the development and analysis of the administration’s economic initiatives. Previously, he was a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, chief of staff at the White House Council of Economic Advisers, and an economist at the Federal Reserve Board and the International Monetary Fund.

Swagel has taught courses on macroeconomics and international economics at Northwestern University and most recently on money and banking at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. In teaching, Swagel looks to blend his policymaking experience with analytical models to demonstrate the connections between theory and application.