Staff

Maya MacGuineas

Maya MacGuineas is the President of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Additionally, she is the Director of the Fiscal Policy Program at the New America Foundation. Previously, she served as a Social Security adviser to the McCain Presidential Campaign, and worked at the Brookings Institution, the Concord Coalition and on Wall Street. She serves on the Boards of a number of national, nonpartisan organizations.

Marc Goldwein

Marc Goldwein is a Research Associate at the New America Foundation. Mr. Goldwein recently graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Johns Hopkins, with a BA in political science. In the past, he participated in internships at the Government Accountability Office, the Office of Senator Specter, and the Historian's Office at the Social Security Administration. An Associate Member of the National Academy of Social Insurance, Mr. Goldwein has done considerable research on the U.S. Social Security system, and is the recipient of the Julius Turner Award for his honors thesis, Riding The Third Rail, written on the Politics of Social Security reform.

Daniel Kowalski

Dan Kowalski currently serves as the founding Director of the Missouri Legislative Budget Office, an independent, non-partisan budget analysis agency serving the Missouri General Assembly.  Prior to that February 2007 appointment, he served for 8 years as the Director of Budget Review for the Majority staff of the House Budget Committee. Dan also worked for 4 years at the Congressional Budget Office as a Principal Analyst in the Budget Analysis Division, and for 7 years for the Finance Committee of the New York State Senate as a tax analyst. He serves as a consultant to the Committee.