Academics Who Influence Barack Obama

The Obama campaign has turned to these professors and others, in formal and informal advisory roles, and to their scholarship to inform policy and to tout the president's record.

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David M. Cutler

A.B. in economics, Harvard U.; Ph.D. in economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Professor of applied economics, Harvard U., with appointments in the John F. Kennedy School of Government and the School of Public