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Jason Furman is the Aetna Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy, jointly at Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard's Department of Economics. He serves as the Weil Director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Furman co-teaches Ec10, "Principles of Economics," the largest course at Harvard. From 2013 to 2017, he served as the 28th Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. His research and writing span U.S. and international macroeconomics, fiscal policy, labor markets, and competition policy. Furman holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.