John Shoven
Buzz and Barbara McCoy Senior Fellow

Expertise: Tax policy, Social Security, U.S. savings patterns

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John Shoven is the Buzz and Barbara McCoy Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Charles R. Schwab Professor of Economics, and director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. He has served as chairman of the economics department from 1986 to 1989, director of the Center for Economic Policy Research from 1989 to 1993, and dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences from 1993 to 1998. He is an expert on tax policy, Social Security, and U.S. savings patterns and was a consultant for the U.S. Treasury Department from 1975 to 1988.