Leonard Burman Biography

Leonard Burman is the head of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center and a Paul Volcker professor at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Public Administration and International Affairs. Burman is also a senior research associate at Syracuse University's Center for Policy Research and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. In 2002, he co-founded the Tax Policy Center, which is a collaboration between the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution. Burman formerly worked for the US Treasury Department as deputy assistant secretary for tax analysis and the Congressional Budget Office as a senior analyst. Burman is the co-author of Taxes in America: What Everyone Needs to Know (with Joel Slemrod) and The Labyrinth of Capital Gains Tax Policy: A Guide for the Perplexed (with Joel Slemrod). Taxing Capital Income and Using Taxes to Reform Health Insurance are both co-edited by him. Burman earned his bachelor's degree from Wesleyan University and his doctorate from the University of Minnesota.

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