Maya MacGuineas is the President of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget—a bipartisan, non-profit organization in the United States committed to educating the public about issues that have significant fiscal policy impact.
Education
Born in Washington in 1968 to Doctorate. Biard MacGuineas and Carol Kalish, MacGuineas attended the National Cathedral School. She graduated from Northwestern University, where she majored in economics and psychology, and she received a master"s degree in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Career
A native Washingtonian, she obtained a Master in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. She serves on the boards of a number of national, nonpartisan organizations. Education Professional career MacGuineas has run the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget since 2003, and works mainly on issues related to fiscal, tax, economic, and retirement policy.
She has also published a number of articles, including in The Atlantic Monthly, The Washington Post, The New York Times, the Financial Times and the Los Angeles Times.
Once dubbed "an anti-deficit warrior" by The Wall Street Journal and "queen of the deficit scolds" by economist Paul Krugman, MacGuineas has appeared on broadcast news and is often cited by the national press MacGuineas also served on The Washington Post editorial board in the Spring of 2009, where she covered economic and fiscal policy and wrote extensively on the health care reform debate.
She was the Director of the Fiscal Policy Program at the New America Foundation—a nonpartisan think tank based in Washington, District of Columbia. Before joining the New America Foundation, MacGuineas worked at the Brookings Institution, the Concord Coalition, and on Wall Street.
Membership
She has also advised numerous candidates for office from both parties, and works regularly with members of United States Congress on health, economic, tax, and budget policy. MacGuineas served as a member of the Debt Reduction Task Force at the Bipartisan Policy Center.