Alan Bennett was an American economist who was the James Madison Professor of Political Economy at Princeton University and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He was nominated by President Barack Obama for Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy from May 2009 to October 2010. In 2011, he was nominated by Obama as chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers and served in that office from November 2012 to August 2013.
Alan Krueger was found dead at his home in Princeton on March 16, 2019. His family stated the cause of death was suicide.
Alan Krueger was born on September 17, 1960, in Livingston, New Jersey. He grew up in a Jewish family. He graduated from Livingston High School in 1979. He received his B.S. from the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He received his A.M. and Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 1985 and 1987.
There is no information about his parents.
Alan Krueger was a married man with Lisa Simon Krueger. They had two children, Sydney and Benjamin. His wife Lisa Simon works as a senior consultant at ITHAKA in Princeton, New Jersey as from March 2015 to date. She served as an Assistant Director, Center for Economic Policy Studies at Princeton University from 1991-94.
There is no information about his net worth and salary.
Alan Krueger nominated by President Obama for Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy. In 2011, he was nominated by President Obama as chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers.