Leonard Burman is the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Professor of Public Affairs at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, an Affiliated Scholar at the Urban Institute, and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and Senior Research Associate at Syracuse University’s Center for Policy Research. Previously, he was the Director and Co-founder of the Tax Policy Center, a joint project of the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution. He has held high-level positions in both the executive and legislative branches, serving as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Analysis at the Treasury from 1998 to 2000, and as Senior Analyst at the Congressional Budget Office. He is President of the National Tax Association.
Burman is the author of The Labyrinth of Capital Gains Tax Policy: A Guide for the Perplexed, and Co-editor of Taxing Capital Income and Using Taxes to Reform Health Insurance, and author of numerous articles, studies, and reports. Recent research has examined US federal budget dynamics, the individual alternative minimum tax, the changing role of taxation in social policy, and tax incentives for savings, retirement, and health insurance. He holds a PhD from the University of Minnesota and a BA from Wesleyan University.
