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{{Short description|American economist}}
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|birthname name = Leonard E.Len Burman
|office = [[Office of Tax Policy|Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Analysis]]▼
|image =
|president = [[Bill Clinton]]
▲|office = Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Analysis
|term_start = 1998
|term_end = 2000
|predecessor =
|birth_date = 1953▼
|successor =
|birth_place = [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]]▼
▲|birth_date = {{birth year and age|1953}}
|spouse = Melissa Burman▼
▲|birth_place = [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]], U.S.
|alma_mater = [[Wesleyan University]]<br>[[University of Minnesota]]
|death_date =
|profession = [[Academia|Academic]]<br>[[Economist]]
|death_place =
|employer = [[Syracuse University]]
▲|spouse = Melissa Burman
|education = [[Wesleyan University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br />[[University of Minnesota]] ([[Master of Arts|MA]], [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]])
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'''Leonard "Len" E. Burman''' (born 1953, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American economist, tax policy expert, and author. He is currently an institute fellow at the [[Urban Institute]], the Paul Volcker Chair in Behavioral Economics at the [[Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs]] at [[Syracuse University]], and a senior research associate at Syracuse University's Center for Policy Research. He is, with [[Joel Slemrod]], the author of ''Taxes in America: What Everyone Needs to Know.'' Burman is also a fellow of [[National Academy of Public Administration (United States)|National Academy of Public Administration.]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Incorporated |first=Prime |title=National Academy of Public Administration |url=https://napawash.org/fellow/29842 |access-date=2023-02-07 |website=National Academy of Public Administration |language=en}}</ref>
 
'''Leonard "Len" E. Burman''' (born 1953, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a nationally recognized economist, tax policy expert, and writer who currently serves as the first Daniel Patrick Moynihan Professor of Public Affairs at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.
 
== Education and early career ==
 
Born in [[Philadelphia, PA]], Burman graduated [[Northeast High School in (Philadelphia,)|Northeast PA,High School]] in 1971. He received an A.B. in Economicseconomics from [[Wesleyan University]] in 1975 and received a Ph.D. in Economicseconomics at the [[University of Minnesota]] in 1985.<ref name="test">[http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/uploadedFiles/burmancv.pdf Leonard Burman Curriculum Vitae], Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.</ref>
 
== Career ==
Prior to graduate school, Burman was an economist with Data Resources, Inc. from 1975 to 1978. He served as an economics instructor at [[Bates College]] from 1983 to 1985 before beginning his career in Washington.▼
 
=== Early career ===
== Department of Treasury and Congressional Budget Office ==▼
▲Prior to graduate school, Burman was an economist with Data Resources, Inc. from 1975 to 1978. He served as an economics instructor at [[Bates College]] from 1983 to 1985 before beginning his career in Washington.
 
▲== Department of= Treasury and Congressional Budget Office ===
Burman began his career in Washington by taking a two-year leave from teaching at Bates College to work as a financial economist with the [http://www.treasury.gov/about/organizational-structure/offices/Pages/Office-of-Tax-Analysis.aspx Department of Tax Analysis] at the U.S. Department of Treasury. During his time at Treasury, Burman worked on the design and implementation of the [[Tax Reform Act of 1986]].<ref name="Dana Cooke 2009">{{cite web|title=The Public Economist|url=http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/news.aspx?id=36507226685|work=Maxwell Perspective|publisher=Syracuse University|author=Dana Cooke|date=Fall|year=2009}}</ref> After leaving Treasury in 1988, Burman served for over a decade as a senior economic analyst at the [[Congressional Budget Office]] writing reports on tax policy issues including the low-income housing credit, health reform, tax incentives for health and retirement, and the capital gains tax.<ref name="test"/>▼
 
▲Burman began his career in Washington by taking a two-year leave from teaching at Bates College to work as a financial economist with the [http://www.treasury.gov/about/organizational-structure/offices/Pages/[Office-of-Tax-Analysis.aspx Department of Tax AnalysisPolicy]] at the U.S.[[United States Department of the Treasury]]. During his time at Treasury, Burman worked on the design and implementation of the [[Tax Reform Act of 1986]].<ref name="Dana Cooke 2009">{{cite web|title=The Public Economist|url=http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/news.aspx?id=36507226685|work=Maxwell Perspective|publisher=Syracuse University|author=Dana Cooke|date=Fall|year= 2009}}</ref> After leaving Treasury in 1988, Burman served for over a decade as a senior economic analyst at the [[Congressional Budget Office]], writing reports on tax policy issues including the low-income housing credit, health reform, tax incentives for health and retirement, and the capital gains tax.<ref name="test" />
== Clinton Administration and current work ==▼
 
▲=== Clinton Administration and current work ===
The Clinton administration brought Burman back to Treasury in 1998 to become the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Analysis, serving as the administration’s top tax economist. Burman served in this post for two years.▼
 
▲The Clinton administration brought Burman back to Treasury in 1998 to become the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Analysis, serving as the administration’sadministration's top tax economist. Burman served in this post for two years.
 
In 2000, Burman left the Clinton administration to become a senior fellow at the [[Urban Institute]].
 
In 2002, Burman, along with other tax experts from the Reagan, Clinton, and Bush administrations, founded the [[Tax Policy Center]] as a joint venture of the [[Brookings Institution]] and the Urban Institute. Burman served as the inaugural director of the Tax Policy Center until 2009 and provided guidance on tax policy issues and proposals as a resident expert. The current director of the Tax Policy Center is [[Donald B. Marron Jr.|Donald Marron]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Affiliated Staff|url=http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/aboutus/staff.cfm|publisher=Tax Policy Center}}</ref>
 
=== Later career ===
Since leaving the Clinton administration in 2000, Burman has served in several posts in academia. FromBetween 2000 toand 2008, Burman served aswas a visiting professor and lecturer at the [[Georgetown Public Policy Institute]] and has served as a visiting professor at the [[UCLA School of Law]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Leonard Burman|date=4 June 2016|url=http://www.urban.org/about/leonardburman.cfm|publisher=Urban Institute}}</ref>
 
Burman currently serves as the DanielPaul PatrickVolcker MoynihanChair Professorin ofBehavioral Public AffairsEconomics at the [[Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs]] at [[Syracuse University]]. teachingHe teaches classes on tax and social policy. In addition, Burman is a senior research associate at Syracuse University’sUniversity's Center for Policy Research, a research associate at the [[National Bureau of Economic Research]], and an affiliated scholar at the Urban Institute. He is the immediate past-president of the [[National Tax Association]], has served on the on the [[Bipartisan Policy Center]]’s [http://bipartisanpolicy.org/projects/debt-initiative/about Debt Reduction Task Force], and currently serves on the board of the [http://subsidyscope.org/ Pew SubsidyScope Project].<ref>{{cite web|title=Leonard E. Burman|url=http://www.scholarsstrategynetwork.org/scholar-profile/112|publisher=Scholars Strategy Network}}</ref>
 
Burman blogs as ''The Impertinent Economist'' on [http://www.forbes.com Forbes.com] and on the [[Tax Policy Center’sCenter]]’s blog, [http://taxvox.taxpolicycenter.org/ TaxVox] and has written over 120 articles on a wide range of tax and fiscal policy issues over a thirty -year span. His op ed’s-eds have appeared in the ''[[The Washington Post]]'', ''[[The New York Times]]'', and many other publications. In addition, Burman has written or coedited three books including [http://www.amazon.com/The-Labyrinth-Capital-Gains-Policy/dp/0815712707/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1340387630&sr=8-1&keywords=the+labyrinth+of+capital+gains+tax ''The Labyrinth of Capital Gains Tax Policy: A Guide for the Perplexed]'' and is''Taxes currentlyin coauthoringAmerica: aWhat bookEveryone onNeeds U.S.to tax policy with [[Joel Slemrod]]Know.<ref name="test"/>''
 
== Personal life ==
 
Burman is married to Melissa Burman, a former administrator at Georgetown University, and has four children, (Rob, Paul, Kent and oneLiz) grandchild.and two grandchildren. He is an avid cyclist who biked across the country in 2004 with his son, Paul, to raise over $100,000 for charity ([[Partners In Health]]).<ref name="Dana Cooke 2009"/><ref>http://ride4haiti.blogspot.com/ {{User-generated source|date=August 2022}}</ref> He sings baritone in the a cappella group, Polyhymnia, and is a former member of the Syracuse Oratorio Society., New Dominion Chorale, Arlington Metropolitan Chorus, and Androscoggin Chorale.<ref>https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/uploadedFiles/burmancv.pdf></ref> He currently resides in Syracuse[[Arlington County, NYVirginia]].
 
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