John F. Cogan, the Leonard and Shirley Ely Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, was appointed by President Bush to a newly formed bipartisan commission on social security reform May 2.
The 16-member commission, co-chaired by Richard Parsons of AOL Time Warner Inc. and former New York senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, is charged with creating a plan for reforming the present social security system. President Bush announced his plans to create the commission during his first speech to Congress in February.
The appointment marks the second time President Bush has called upon Mr. Cogan to serve his administration. Last December, following the election of President Bush, Mr. Cogan was called upon to begin the job of preparing the President's first budget.
Mr. Cogan's career has been marked by distinguished accomplishments in economic research, teaching and public service.
His research is focused on the U.S. budget and fiscal policy, social security, and the determinants of congressional election outcomes. Mr. Cogan has been a scholar at the Hoover Institution since 1980.
Mr. Cogan is also a professor in the Public Policy Program at Stanford University. He serves on faculty advisory boards for the Stanford-in-Washington campus, the Stanford-in-Government program, and the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. In 1994, he received Stanford-in-Government's "Distinguished Service" Award.
Mr. Cogan has a long and exemplary record of public service. In 1981, he served as Assistant Secretary for Policy in the U.S. Department of Labor. In 1983, he joined the Office of Management and Budget where he was first named Associate Director for Economics and Government and subsequently Associate Director for Human Resources. In 1988, he was appointed Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget.
He has served as a member of the U.S. Bipartisan Commission on Health Care (The Pepper Commission), the Social Security Notch Commission, and the National Academy of Sciences' panel on Poverty and Family Assistance.
The Hoover Institution, founded at Stanford University in 1919 by Herbert Hoover, who went on to become the 31st president of the United States, is an interdisciplinary research center for advanced study on domestic and international affairs.
