Larry Kudlow

Larry Kudlow
Kudlow at the Conservative Political Action Conference (2016)
12th Director of the National Economic Council
In office April 2, 2018 – January 20, 2021
President	Donald Trump
Preceded by	Gary Cohn
Succeeded by	Brian Deese
Personal details
Born	Lawrence Alan Kudlow (1947-08-20) August 20, 1947 (age 76) Englewood, New Jersey, U.S.
Political party	Democratic (before 1981) Republican (1981–present)
Spouses	Nancy Gerstein ​ ​ (m. 1974; div. 1975)​ Susan Cullman Sicher ​ ​ (m. 1981)​ Judith Pond ​ (m. 1986)​
Education	University of Rochester (BA) Princeton University
Website	Official website

Lawrence Alan Kudlow (born August 20, 1947) is an American conservative broadcast news analyst, columnist, journalist, political commentator, and radio personality. He is a financial news commentator for Fox Business and served as the Director of the National Economic Council during the Trump Administration from 2018 to 2021. He assumed that role after his previous employment as a CNBC television financial news host.^[1][2]

Kudlow began his career as a junior financial analyst at the New York Federal Reserve. He soon left government to work on Wall Street at Paine Webber and Bear Stearns as a financial analyst. In 1981, after previously volunteering and working for left-wing politicians and causes, Kudlow joined the administration of Ronald Reagan as associate director for economics and planning in the Office of Management and Budget.^[3]

After leaving the Reagan Administration during the second term, Kudlow returned to Wall Street and Bear Stearns, serving as the firm's chief economist from 1987 until 1994. During this time, he also advised the gubernatorial campaign of Christine Todd Whitman on economic issues. In the late 1990s, after a publicized battle with cocaine and alcohol addiction, Kudlow left Wall Street to become an economics and financial commentator – first with National Review, and later hosting several shows on CNBC.