The Department of Mathematics at the University of Dayton presents

The 11th Annual Kenneth C. Schraut Memorial Lecture

Saturday, November 6, 2010

Science Center Auditorium
12:45 - 1:45 pm
 

Dr. Eugene Steuerle

Institute Fellow and Richard B. Fisher Chair

The Urban Institute

Abstract:

In this lecture, Gene Steurele, a math major from the 1968 graduating class, will discuss the many ways that mathematics & statistics crop up in almost every major public policy debate in which he has participated, including (to mention just a few) budget reform, tracking of outcomes by government statistics agencies, statistical matching of data files through the transportation algorithm, election monitoring, modeling assumptions that helped lead to the Great Recession, educational reform driven by new cross-section, time-series data on student progress, privacy of government records, winners and losers in tax reform, and how to measure the benefits of Social Security programs.

Career Brief

Eugene Steuerle is Institute Fellow and Richard B. Fisher Chair at the Urban Institute.  Among past positions, he has served as Vice President at the Peter G. Peterson Foundation during its start-up phase, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Analysis, Senior Fellow at The Urban Institute, co-founder and co-director of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, President of the National Tax Association, chair of the 1999 Technical Panel advising Social Security on its methods and assumptions, President of the National Economists Club Educational Foundation, Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, Federal Executive Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a columnist for Tax Notes and for the Financial Times.  Between 1984 and 1986 he served as Economic Coordinator and original organizer of the Treasury's tax reform effort, for which Treasury and White House officials have written that tax reform "would not have moved forward without your early leadership.”

Dr. Steuerle is the author, co-author, or co-editor of fifteen books and over one thousand articles, briefs, reports, and Congressional testimonies.  Books include Contemporary U.S. Tax Policy, 2nd Edition, Nonprofits and Business (co-edited) and Retooling Social Security for the 21^st Century (co-authored).  His regular column, The Government We Deserve, can be found at http://www.urban.org/Pressroom/govt_we_deserve.cfm.

He serves or has served as an elected, appointed, advisory panel, or board member for the Congressional Budget Office, the Comptroller General of the United States, the Joint Committee on Taxation, the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, the Independent Sector, the Council on Foundations, the National Academy of Social Insurance, and the Journal of Economic Perspectives, among others.

Dr. Steuerle also has undertaken various missions for the International Monetary Fund or World Bank to China, Singapore, Poland, and Slovakia, while the government of Barbados undertook a tax reform effort modeled after a report that he co-authored as head of another mission. 

Among other honors, he received distinguished or outstanding alumnus awards from the University of Dayton and St. Xavier High School in Louisville, KY, as well as the first Bruce Davie-Albert Davis Public Service Award from the National Tax Association in 2005.  His Ph.D., with distinction in public finance, is from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is a co-founder and Vice-Chair of ACT for Alexandria, a community foundation for the city of Alexandria, VA. 

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