Diana Furchtgott-Roth is an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a columnist for RealClearMarkets.com. She is also a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, where she directs the Center for Employment Policy. From 2003 to 2005, Ms. Furchtgott-Roth was Chief Economist of the U.S. Department of Labor. From 2001 to 2002 she served as chief of staff at the President's Council of Economic Advisers.

Ms. Furchtgott-Roth is the editor of Overcoming Barriers to Entrepreneurship in the United States (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008) and the coauthor of The Feminist Dilemma: When Success Is Not Enough (AEI Press, 2001) and Women's Figures: An Illustrated Guide to the Economics of Women in America (AEI Press, 1999). From 2006 to 2008 she was a weekly economics columnist for the New York Sun, and now writes for Reuters.com. Her articles have been published in The Washington Post, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, Investor's Business Daily, The Los Angeles Times, and Le Figaro, among others.

Ms. Furchtgott-Roth appears every Thursday on CNBC’s Street Signs and is a regular guest on Fox News Radio. She has appeared on numerous other TV and radio shows, including The Diane Rehm Show, C-SPAN’s Washington Journal and PBS’s The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.

Ms. Furchtgott-Roth was assistant to the president and resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute from 1993 to 2001. Prior to that, she served as Deputy Executive Director of the Domestic Policy Council and Associate Director of the Office of Policy Planning in the White House under President George H.W. Bush. From 1987 to 1991 she was an economist at the American Petroleum Institute, where she authored papers on energy and taxation. Ms. Furchtgott-Roth was an economist on the staff of President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers from 1986 to 1987.

Ms. Furchtgott-Roth received her B.A. in economics from Swarthmore College and her M.Phil. in economics from Oxford University.

Select Media

• Morning News, KTRH, 7-31-09
• Fox Business with Stuart Varney, Fox Business Network, 7-24-09
• Politics of Money, KCEO, 7-22-09
• Bob Conners Show, WTVN, 7-21-09
• Steve and Leah Show, WERC, 7-21-09
• Weekday Mornings, WINK, 7-21-09
• Special Report, Fox News Channel, 7-16-09

Articles/Op-eds

• Health Reform and Job Destruction, RealClearMarkets, 12-09-09
• The Public Option Opt-Out Is No Panacea, RealClearMarkets, 10-29-09
• Higher Education and Economic Mobility, RealClearMarkets, 10-22-09
• Health Reform Won't Benefit Women, RealClearMarkets, 10-15-09
• The Baucus Bill: An October Trick, RealClearMarkets, 10-08-09
• Job Creation Bills Will Kill Them, RealClearMarkets, 10-01-09
• The Truth About Income Inequality, RealClearMarkets, 09-24-09
• The True Cost of the Baucus Bill, The Oklahoman, 09-18-09
• Don't Buy Specter's EFCA "Compromise", RealClearMarkets, 09-17-09
• Nothing New With Obama's Health Plan, RealClearMarkets, 09-10-09
• Union Bigs Get the Best Deals: A Sour Labor Day Lesson On Pensions, New York Daily News, 09-09-09
• Obama's Excessively Optimistic Deficit Projections, RealClearMarkets, 08-27-09
• Turning Uncle Sam into Peeping Tom, National Review Online, 08-20-09
• Obama's Health Care Bogeyman Is Obama, RealClearMarkets, 08-13-09
• The High Cost of Medical Malpractice, RealClearMarkets, 08-06-09
• The Healthcare Bankruptcy Myth, RealClearMarkets, 07-30-09
• 'Rich' Taxes Cripple Small Towns, RealClearMarkets, 07-23-09
• A Very Unhealthy Health Bill, RealClearMarkets, 07-16-09
• Obama, Title IX, and Academics?, RealClearMarkets, 07-09-09
• It's Time to Go Nuclear, RealClearMarkets, 07-02-09
• Socialized Medicine Through the Eyes of a Recipient, RealClearMarkets, 06-25-09
• A VAT Tax Is Not the Answer, RealClearMarkets, 06-18-09
• High-Speed Rail, RealClearMarkets, 06-11-09
• We Face Major Healthcare Choices, RealClearMarkets, 06-04-09
• Obama Should Ditch Deadly Cafe Standards, RealClearMarkets, 05-28-09
• Obama's Upside-Down Energy Logic, RealClearMarkets, 05-21-09
• The Hidden Agenda Behind Card Check, RealClearMarkets, 05-15-09
• The Minimum Wage and Its Employment Impact, RealClearMarkets, 05-14-09
• After Card Check, Don't Forget Binding Arbitration, RealClearMarkets, 05-07-09
• The Folly of 'Equal Pay' Laws, RealClearMarkets, 04-30-09
• Job Loss By Millions, Tax Hikes By Billions, RealClearMarkets, 04-23-09
• Choose Tax Cuts for Economic Recovery, RealClearMarkets, 04-16-09
• ChooseTax Cuts to Encourage Economic Growth, Washington Examiner, 04-15-09
• Unequal Protection Under the Law, RealClearMarkets, 04-09-09
• Charity Begins At Home, RealClearMarkets, 04-02-09
• Obama's Spending Masquerades As Investment, RealClearMarkets, 03-26-09
• AIG Bashing Is a Political Smokescreen, RealClearMarkets, 03-19-09
• Card Check Workers Can Only Check In, RealClearMarkets, 03-12-09
• Obama's Higher Taxes Hit Working Wives, RealClearMarkets, 03-05-09
• So Much for Fiscal Responsibility, RealClearMarkets, 02-26-09
• Do You Know Where Your Food Comes From?, RealClearMarkets, 02-19-09
• The Financial Instability Plan, RealClearMarkets, 02-12-09
• First, Do No Harm, RealClearMarkets, 02-05-09
• SCHIP: The Creeping Nationalization of Health Care, RealClearMarkets, 01-28-09