C. Eugene Steuerle

Steuerle is the author, co-author, or co-editor of 18 books and over 1,500 articles, briefs, reports, and Congressional testimonies. Books include Dead Men Ruling, Nonprofits and Government (3rd edition), Contemporary U.S. Tax Policy, and Advancing the Power of Economic Evidence to Inform Investments in Children, Youth, and Families. His column is The Government We Deserve.[1]

He is Institute Fellow and Richard B. Fisher Chair at the Urban Institute. He has served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Analysis (1987-1989), President of the National Tax Association (2001-2002), Vice President at the Peter G. Peterson Foundation during its startup phase, co-director of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, chair of the National Academy of Science Committee on the Use of Economic Evidence, chair of the 1999 Technical Panel advising Social Security on its methods and assumptions, President of the National Economists Club Educational Foundation, Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, Federal Executive Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a columnist for Tax Notes Magazine and the Financial Times.

He is considered a key player and the original organizer of the Treasury's 1984-1986 tax reform. Ronald A. Pearlman, former Assistant Secretary of Tax Policy wrote that the tax reform “would not have moved forward without [Steuerle's] early leadership,” and Lawrence B. Gibbs, former Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, stated that "few people have had greater impact on major changes in the tax law and the principal improvements in tax compliance and administration." Andrew Samwick, Director of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College, dubbed Steuerle the "Social Security Czar" for his expertise in Social Security reform.

C. Eugene "Gene" Steuerle (born December 22, 1946) is an American economist, a Richard B. Fisher chair and Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute in Washington, DC, and a columnist under the title The Government We Deserve.