In an announcement today from the White House, Kim Ruhl, Curt and Sue Culver Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, has been appointed a member of the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA). Established by Congress in 1946, the CEA comprises three economists who advise the U.S. president on a wide range of economic policy issues based on data, research, and evidence.
Ruhl, co-director of The Center for Research on the Wisconsin Economy (CROWE), is the first economist from UW–Madison to serve as a member of the CEA. Ruhl is an expert in international economics and has written on models of firm heterogeneity, trade policy dynamics, and tariffs.
Ruhl will take a leave from UW–Madison to serve on the CEA; Ananth Seshadri, professor of economics and Mary Sue & Mike Shannon Distinguished chair, will serve as CROWE’s director. CROWE’s mission is to support and share economic policy research from a market perspective, with a particular focus on the Wisconsin economy and state level economic policy issues.
