Nada O Eissa
Associate Professor of Public Policy and Economics at Georgetown University, Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Policy Advisor to the International Growth Centre State Fragility InitiativeNada O Eissa is Associate Professor of Public Policy and Economics at Georgetown University, Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and policy advisor to the International Growth Centre (IGC) ‘s State Fragility Initiative. From 2005 − 2007, she served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Previously, she was an Economics faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley; visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund and the American Enterprise Institute; and Lead Academic for the IGC Uganda and South Sudan programs.
Professor Eissa’s research is in applied-public economics, including taxation, social insurance, transfer policy, and labor markets. Her recent work has expanded to understanding tax and transfer systems in developing countries – including projects on customs and VAT tax evasion and the design of low-cost audit schemes, as well as fiscal federalism and intrastate conflict./p>
Eissa is co-director of the Georgetown University Initiative on Innovation, Development, and Evaluation (gui2de) and elected member of the National Association of Social Insurance. She currently serves on the Advisory Board for the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, the Economics Advisory Council of the Environmental Defense Fund; and the Board of Directors of GAEA Real Estate Corporation. Periodically, she appears on CNBC’s Squawk Box as a member of the monthly Jobs Panel./p>
Professor Eissa earned a B. A. from the University of California at Berkeley (Phi Beta Kappa) and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. She was awarded the National Tax Association’s Award for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Government Finance and Taxation./p>