Diana Furchtgott-Roth

Senior Fellow

Manhattan Institute

Diana Furchtgott-Roth is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, director of the Economics21 program, and a columnist for MarketWatch.com and Tax Notes. Furchtgott-Roth also served on the transition team for President Donald J. Trump. During 2003–05, she was chief economist of the U.S. Department of Labor. In 2001–02, Furchtgott-Roth was chief of staff of President George W. Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers. During 1991–93, she was deputy executive director of the White House Domestic Policy Council and associate director of the Office of Policy Planning under President George H. W. Bush. Furchtgott-Roth was an economist on the staff of President Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisers in 1986–87.