Alan Krueger is a Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. He served as Chairman of President Barack Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers from 2011 to 2013 and was a member of the President’s Cabinet. Krueger has held a joint appointment in the Economics Department and in the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University since 1987. He served as Chief Economist of the U.S. Department of Labor from 1994 to 1995 and was the Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy and Chief Economist of the U.S. Department of the Treasury from 2009 to 2010. Krueger wrote for The New York Times Economic Scene column and for the “Economix” blog from 2000 to 2009. He was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 1996, a fellow of the Society of Labor Economists in 2005, and became a member of the Executive Committee of the American Economic Association in 2004. He was awarded the Kershaw Prize by the Association for Public Policy in 1997, elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2002, awarded the IZA Prize in Labor Economics in 2006, and was also awarded the Moynihan Prize in 2017.