Stock Returns to Harvard from the White House Council of Economic Advisers

Professor James Stock, who has served on the White House Council of Economic Advisers since 2012, will be returning to his position at Harvard University as the Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Economics.

Professor Stock has served on the three-person panel to advise the President and his staff on economic policy.

Mr. Stock’s academic specialty has been in assessing the health of the overall economy, though at the White House for the past two years he has taken on a broader range of economic topics, including analyzing the economic impact of rules to fight climate change and proposals for reforming the housing finance system.

The White House counselor John Podesta said in a statement: “Jim has been an intellectual force in the administration’s work on energy and climate policy, and was integral in helping craft the single biggest climate action of the president’s second term — the E.P.A.'s proposed rule limiting carbon emissions from power plants, which was released just yesterday. He’ll be missed at the C.E.A. and on our climate policy team.”

New Member of Obama’s Economic Team Has International Expertise: Maurice Obstfeld Named to Council of Economic Advisers, The New York Times, June 3, 2014

President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts, White House Press Release, June 3, 2014