Kevin Hassett
Kevin Hassett | |
|---|---|
Official portrait, 2018 | |
| Director of the National Economic Council | |
| Assumed office January 20, 2025 | |
| President | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Lael Brainard |
| Senior Advisor to the President for Economic Issues | |
| In office April 15, 2020 – July 1, 2020 | |
| President | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Vacant |
| 29th Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers | |
| In office September 13, 2017 – June 28, 2019 | |
| President | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Jason Furman |
| Succeeded by | Tomas J. Philipson (Acting) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Kevin Allen Hassett March 20, 1962 Greenfield, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse | Kristie |
| Children | 2 |
| Education | Swarthmore College (BA) University of Pennsylvania (MA, PhD) |
Kevin Allen Hassett (born March 20, 1962) is an American economist who has been the director of the National Economic Council since 2025. He was the senior advisor and chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers from 2017 to 2019.
Hassett has worked at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank. He was John McCain's chief economic adviser in the 2000 presidential primaries, as well as economic adviser to the 2004 campaign of George W. Bush and 2008 campaign of McCain. He was an economic adviser on Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign.
In the Trump administration, Hassett was the 29th chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers from September 2017 to June 2019. He returned to the White House in 2020 to work on the administration's response to the coronavirus pandemic. Hassett did not focus on public health policy, but rather influenced the administration's response from an economic angle amid lockdowns and social distancing.
On November 26, 2024, President-elect Donald Trump announced Hassett will be his director of the National Economic Council.