Glenn Hubbard (economist)

Glenn Hubbard
15th Dean of Columbia Business School
In office July 1, 2004 – July 1, 2019
Preceded by	Meyer Feldberg
Succeeded by	Costis Maglaras
20th Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers
In office May 11, 2001 – February 28, 2003
President	George W. Bush
Preceded by	Martin Baily
Succeeded by	Greg Mankiw
Personal details
Born	Robert Glenn Hubbard (1958-09-04) September 4, 1958 (age 65) Orlando, Florida, U.S.
Political party	Republican
Education	University of Central Florida (BA, BS) Harvard University (MA, PhD)
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Website	Official website
Academic career
Field	Public economics Corporate finance Financial institutions Macroeconomics Industrial organization Natural resource economics Public policy
School or tradition	Supply-side economics
Doctoral advisor	Benjamin M. Friedman[1] Jerry A. Hausman[1] Martin Feldstein[1]
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Robert Glenn Hubbard (born September 4, 1958) is an American economist and academic. He served as the Dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Business from 2004 to 2019, where he remains the Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics.^[2] On September 13, 2018, he announced that he would retire from his position after his contract expired on June 30, 2019. Hubbard previously served as Deputy Assistant Secretary at the U.S. Department of the Treasury from 1991 to 1993, and as Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers from 2001 to 2003.

Hubbard is a visiting scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, where he studies tax policy and health care.^[3] He was criticized for his reports and papers on deregulation during the 2008 banking crisis. He was also heavily criticized in the documentary Inside Job about the credit default swap scams that led to the world financial collapse in 2008.