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Date of Birth
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25-December-1958
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Place of Birth
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Alton
(Madison County, Illinois, United States of America)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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Christina Duckworth, Christina Romer, Christina D. Romer
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Profession
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Economist, Professor
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Christina D. Romer is the Class of 1957 Garff B. Wilson Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley and a former Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Obama administration. She resigned from her role on the Council of Economic Advisers on September 3, 2010.
After her nomination and before the Obama administration took office, Romer worked with economist Jared Bernstein to co-author the administration's plan for recovery from the 2008 recession. In a January 2009 video presentation, she discussed details of the job creation program that the Obama administration submitted to Congress.
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