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A Brighter Future
America’s economic strength is closely tied to our fiscal outlook. A strong fiscal foundation is essential for a healthy economy, with rising incomes, opportunity, and mobility, now and in the future.
Our Mission
Our mission is to increase public awareness of the nature and urgency of the key fiscal challenges threatening America's future and to accelerate action on them. To address these challenges successfully, we work to bring Americans together to find and implement sensible, long-term solutions that transcend age, party lines, and ideological divides in order to achieve real results.
Our Background
The Peter G. Peterson Foundation is a non-partisan organization dedicated to addressing America’s long-term fiscal challenges to ensure a better economic future. Led by Founder and Chairman Pete Peterson and President and CEO Michael Peterson, the Foundation works with leading policy experts, elected officials, and the public to build support for solutions to put America on a sustainable fiscal path. The foundation engages in grant-making, partnerships and research to educate and involve Americans from a variety of perspectives.
Careers
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Board of Directors
Our Board of Directors establishes the Foundation’s strategy and priorities and provides oversight of grants, projects, communications, and finances to ensure that our actions contribute effectively toward our mission.
Peter G. Peterson
Founder and Chairman
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Michael A. Peterson
President and CEO
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Joan Ganz Cooney
Director
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Foundation Senior Leadership
Loretta Ucelli
Executive Vice President, Strategy & Communications
As executive vice president of strategy and communications for the Peterson Foundation, Loretta develops powerful campaigns and comprehensive strategies designed to advance public awareness of and increase engagement in the Foundation’s mission, and shape long-term objectives. Prior to joining the Foundation in 2010, she held the most senior communications positions at Pfizer and Columbia University, and for the last two years of President Clinton’s second term, she was assistant to the president and director of White House communications.
Susan Tanaka
Senior Policy Advisor
Susan uses her extensive background in budget and fiscal policy to identify potential new partners and new projects, especially those focused on the connections between long-term demographic, economic and fiscal trends, that would help further the Foundation’s mission. Susan joined the Foundation in 2008. Her earlier experience includes the career staff of the White House Office of Management of Budget, Associate Director and Senior Analyst at the Congressional Budget Office, and work with non-governmental budget and policy organizations.
Doug Hamilton
Vice President, Research
Doug has 20 years of experience supervising economic analysis. Prior to joining the Peterson Foundation in 2011, he served as the chief of the Fiscal Policy Studies Unit at the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), deputy assistant director of CBO’s Macroeconomic Analysis Division, and deputy director of the Economic Policy Group at the Pew Charitable Trusts in Washington, D.C.
Chris Papagianis
Deputy to the President and Chief Executive Officer
As deputy to the President and CEO, Chris works to advance all aspects of the Foundation's mission in tandem with the research, communications, and grants teams. Prior to joining the Peterson Foundation in 2012, Chris founded a think tank dedicated to economic research and public policy development. In his last role in government, he served in the White House as Special Assistant for Domestic and Economic Policy to President George W. Bush.
Advisory Board for the Peter G. Peterson Foundation
Our Advisory Board provides advice on the Foundation’s strategic direction, priorities, initiatives and annual activities. To best serve our mission, the Board features a wide range of backgrounds, experience and perspectives:
Sec. Robert Rubin: Co-Chairman of the Advisory Board, Peter G. Peterson Foundation; Co-Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations; Former United States Secretary of the Treasury
Sec. George Shultz: Co-Chairman of the Advisory Board, Peter G. Peterson Foundation; Thomas W. & Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow, Hoover Institute — Stanford University; Former United States Secretary of State
Diana Aviv: CEO, Feeding America
Craig Barrett: Former Chairman, Intel Corporation
Richard Beattie: Chairman, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Sen. William Bradley: Managing Director, Allen & Company LLC; Former United States Senator
Barry Diller: Chairman, IAC/InterActiveCorp
Roger Ferguson, Jr.: President and CEO, TIAA-CREF
Harvey Fineberg: President, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Leslie Gelb: President Emeritus, Council on Foreign Relations
Thomas Mackell: Chairman, United Benefits and Pension Services, Inc.
William Novelli: Professor, Georgetown University; Former CEO, AARP
Richard Plepler: Chairman and CEO, Home Box Office
Richard Salomon: Managing Partner, East End Advisors LLC
Sheryl Sandberg: Chief Operating Officer, Facebook
Sec. Donna Shalala: President and CEO, The Clinton Foundation; Former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
David Beaumont Smith: Managing Director, Presidio Institute
Paul Volcker: Chairman, The Volcker Alliance; Former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors
David M. Walker: Former Comptroller General of the United States
FORM 990
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Fiscal Confidence Index
Survey: Modeled after the Consumer Confidence Index, the Fiscal Confidence Index is a monthly national survey that measures public opinion about the national debt.