and the Urban Institute’s Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy as well as its retirement project, Opportunity and Ownership initiative on asset development, and its signature research series, Kids' Share, which traces how children fare in government budgets. He is also a cofounder and chair emeritus of Act for Alexandria, a community foundation He serves or has served as an elected, appointed, advisory panel, or board member for the Congressional Budget Office, Comptroller General of the United States, the Joint Committee on Taxation, Venture Philanthropy Partners, the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, the Independent Sector, the Council on Foundations, the National Academy of Social Insurance, and the Journal of Economic Perspectives, among others. He is considered a key player and the original organizer of the Treasury's 1984-1986 tax reform. Ronald A. Pearlman, former Assistant Secretary of Tax Policy wrote that the tax reform “would not have moved forward without [Steuerle's] early leadership,” and Lawrence B. Gibbs, former Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, stated that "few people have had greater impact on major changes in the tax law and the principal improvements in tax compliance and administration." Andrew Samwick, Director of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College, dubbed Steuerle the "Social Security Czar" for his expertise in Social Security reform. References External links The Government We Deserve Contemporary U.S. Tax Policy Retooling Social Security for the 21st Century Nonprofits and Business 1946 births 21st-century American economists Living people University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni