Diana Furchtgott-Roth
Diana Furchtgott-Roth is an economist and Director of the Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment and the Herbert and Joyce Morgan Fellow in Energy and Environmental Policy at The Heritage Foundation. She is a frequent guest on TV and radio shows, a columnist for The Daily Telegraph, and testifies regularly before congressional committees.
Diana worked in senior roles in the White House and executive branch agencies under Presidents Trump, George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, and Reagan. She has served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology at the U.S. Department of Transportation; Acting Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy at the U.S. Department of Treasury; Chief Economist at the U.S. Department of Labor; Chief of Staff of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers; and Deputy Executive Secretary of the White House Domestic Policy Council.
Diana is the author or coauthor of six books and hundreds of articles on economic policy, including “Regulating to Disaster: How Green Jobs Policies are Destroying America’s Economy.” Her most recent book is “United States Income, Wealth, Consumption, and Inequality.” She is an adjunct professor of economics at George Washington University and received degrees in Economics from Swarthmore College and Oxford University.
