"His resume is very impressive," said Mr. Geoffrey Gund, High School History teacher, who provided this introduction: "He is Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and the Principal Deputy Director of the National Economic Council.  From 2007 to 2008 Furman was a Senior Fellow in Economic Studies and Director of the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institute.  Previously, he served as a Staff Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers, a Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy at the National Economic Council under President Clinton and Senior Adviser to the Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank. Furman was the Economic Policy Director for Obama for America. After graduating from Dalton School Furman went on to earn his Ph.D. in economics and a M.A. in government from Harvard University, and a Masters of Science in  economics from the London School of Economics. He has conducted research in a wide range of areas, including fiscal policy, tax policy, health economics, Social Security, and monetary policy and served as Visiting Scholar at NYU’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, a visiting lecturer at Yale and Columbia Universities, and a Senior Fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. In addition to numerous articles in scholarly journals and periodicals, Furman is the editor of several books on economic policy, including Path to Prosperity and Who Has the Cure. 

After his speech and questions and answers in the theater, students and faculty were invited for refreshments and to chat more intimately with Mr. Furman in the High School Library.