special assistant to the president for economic policy, during which time he also served as executive director of the bipartisan President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security. From 2007 to 2008, he held the position of the deputy director of the National Economic Council. After the end of George W. Bush's second term in office in January 2009, Blahous joined the Hudson Institute as a senior fellow. In 2010, Blahous left the Hudson Institute and became a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. His ideas about Social Security reform issues are explained in Reforming Social Security for Ourselves and Our Posterity, a book he published in September 2000. Blahous' second book, Social Security: The Unfinished Work, was published by Hoover Institution Press in November 2010, and a third, Pension Wise: Confronting Employer Pension Underfunding – And Sparing Taxpayers the Next Bailout, was released by the same publisher in December 2010. Apart from politics, he is also a member of the Society for American Baseball Research and has published several articles on baseball in renowned American baseball journals. His publications cover also federal entitlements, demographics and chemistry. In 2012, he co-authored an article with Jason J. Fichtner entitled 'Social Security Reform and Economic Growth' in The 4% Solution: Unleashing the Economic Growth America Needs, published by the George W. Bush Presidential Center. References External links Blahous' bio at the Mercatus Center Hudson Institute Biography for Chuck Blahous Hoover Institution Biography for Charles Blahous Biography of Charles P. Blahous at whitehouse.gov (archival copy) Biography from The Wall Street Journal at PolicyBytes.org United States presidential advisors Princeton University alumni UC Berkeley College of Chemistry alumni American people of Czech descent 1963 births Living people American people of Scottish descent American people of English descent George W. Bush administration personnel People from Alexandria, Virginia George Mason University faculty Virginia Republicans Maryland Republicans Mercatus Center