David Cutler Biography

David Cutler has developed an impressive record of achievement in both academia and the public sector. He served as assistant professor of Economics from 1991 to 1995, was named John L. Loeb Associate Professor of Social Sciences in 1995 and received tenure in 1997. He is currently the Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics in the Department of Economics and holds secondary appointments at the Kennedy School of Government and the School of Public Health. Cutler was associate dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for Social Sciences from 2003-2008.

Honored for his scholarly work and singled out for outstanding mentorship of graduate students, Cutler's work in health economics and public economics has earned him significant academic and public acclaim. Cutler served on the Council of Economic Advisers and the National Economic Council during the Clinton Administration and has advised the Presidential campaigns of Bill Bradley, John Kerry and Barack Obama as well as being senior health care advisor for the Obama Presidential Campaign and a senior fellow for the Center for American Progress. Among other affiliations, Cutler has held positions with the National Institutes of Health and the National Academy of Sciences. Currently, Cutler is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a member of the Institute of Medicine and a fellow of the Employee Benefit Research Institute. He serves on advisory boards of Genentech and Fidelity Biosciences.

Cutler is author of two books, several chapters in edited books, and many of published papers on the topic s of health care and other public policy topics. Author of Your Money Or Your Life: Strong Medicine for America's Health Care System, published by Oxford University Press, this book, and Cutler's ideas, were the subject of a feature article in The New York Times magazine, The Quality Cure, by Roger Lowenstein. Cutler was recently named one of the 30 people who could have a powerful impact on healthcare by Modern Healthcare magazine and one of the 50 most influential men aged 45 and younger by Details magazine.

Cutler received an AB from Harvard University (1987) and a PhD in Economics from MIT (1991).

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