Fred T. Goldberg, Jr., has been a partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP since 1993. He served as assistant secretary of the Treasury for tax policy in 1992 and as commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service from 1989 to 1992. Mr. Goldberg’s primary focus of practice is advising clients as special counsel on a wide range on sensitive matters. In addition to opinion work and advice regarding novel tax administration issues, he has participated in compliance oversight and management reviews on behalf of senior management and boards of directors of various companies. Mr. Goldberg has represented clients involved in IRS collection matters, clients subject to third-party IRS discovery proceedings, and clients involved in IRS criminal investigations. He is the coauthor of "Reforming Social Security: How to Implement a Practical and Workable System of Personal Retirement Accounts" (NBER conference, December 4, 1998). His civil activities include serving as a member of the CSIS National Commission on Retirement Policy.

Kevin A. Hassett is a resident scholar at AEI. Before joining AEI, Mr. Hassett was a senior economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and an associate professor of economics and finance at the Graduate School of Business of Columbia University. He was the chief economic adviser to Senator John McCain during the 2000 presidential campaign. He has also served as a policy consultant to the U.S. Treasury Department during both the Bush and Clinton administrations. He has published scholarly articles in the Economic Journal, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Public Economics, and many other professional journals. Mr. Hassett appears regularly on CNN, CNBC, PBS, and Bloomberg Television. His writings have been published in the Atlantic Monthly, USA Today, Investor’s Business Daily, the Wall Street Journal, and the Weekly Standard. He is the coauthor of the New York Times best-selling book Dow 36,000 (Random House, 1999).

R. Glenn Hubbard is a visiting scholar at AEI and the Russell L. Carson Professor of Economics and Finance at the Graduate School of Business and the Department of Economics at Columbia University. Mr. Hubbard was the deputy assistant secretary of tax analysis at the U.S. Treasury Department during the Bush administration. He was also a visiting professor at the University of Chicago and Harvard University and a John M. Olin Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, where he continues to be a research associate in programs on public economics, monetary economics, corporate finance, economic fluctuations, and industrial organization. He has been a research consultant for the Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Internal Revenue Service, the Social Security Administration, the U.S. Treasury Department, the U.S. International Trade Commission, the National Science Foundation, and the World Bank. Mr. Hubbard has published numerous articles on public finance, financial economics, macroeconomics, industrial organization, energy economics, and public policy.

John Shoven is a member of Stanford University’s Economics Department, where he holds the Charles R. Schwab Professorship. He has been at Stanford since 1973. An expert on tax policy, Mr. Shoven was a consultant for the U.S. Treasury Department from 1975 to 1988. His primary research interests include Social Security and private pensions, corporate finance, stock and bond returns, and personal and corporate income taxation. The author of approximately eighty professional articles and ten books, Mr. Shoven’s most recent papers are "The Real Deal: The History and Future of Social Security," with Sylvester Schieder (Yale University Press, 1999), and "Should the United States Privatize Social Security?" with Henry Aaron (MIT Press, 1999). Mr. Shoven has participated in various Hoover Institution programs and conferences and holds professional affiliations with AEA, WEA, Econometrics Society (fellow), and the National Tax Association.

Eugene C. Steuerle is a senior fellow at the Urban Institute and the author of a weekly column, "Economic Perspective," for Tax Notes. He has conducted extensive research on budget and tax policy, Social Security, charitable issues, health care, and welfare reform. Earlier in his career, Mr. Steuerle served in various positions in the Treasury Department under four presidents and was eventually appointed deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury for tax analysis. In addition, Mr. Steuerle has served as chair of the Technical Panel advising Social Security on its methods and assumptions. He has recently acted as an adviser, consultant, or board member to numerous groups and committees, including the U.S. General Accounting Office’s Advisory Panel on Social Security, the National Commission on Retirement Policy, and the American Tax Policy Institute.