Nada Eissa | |
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Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy | |
In office August 2005 – July 5, 2007 | |
President | George W. Bush |
Preceded by | Mark Warshawsky |
Succeeded by | Ted Gayer |
Personal details | |
Born | 1967 (age 56–57) Sudan |
Nationality | American |
Education | University of California, Berkeley (BA) Harvard University (MA, PhD) |
Website | Faculty website |
Academic career | |
Institution | University of California, Berkeley Georgetown University |
Field | Public finance |
Other notable students | Adriana Kugler |
Awards | National Tax Association’s Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Government Finance and Taxation (1995) |
Nada O. Eissa is an American economist who is an associate professor of Public Policy and Economics at Georgetown University and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).[1] She was Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy (microeconomics) in 2005–2007.[2]
Eissa moved to the United States from Sudan at the age of 9. She earned degrees in economics from the University of California at Berkeley and from Harvard University.[1]
Eissa has been a member of the economics faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund, a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and the lead academic for the International Growth Centre's programs in South Sudan and Uganda.[3] Her early research focuses on the labor supply effects of tax reforms; in recent years she has studied tax compliance in developing countries and evaluating the impact of school finance reforms in the United States on student outcomes.[4]