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My Take
Cecilia Rouse strikes me as the quiet kind of formidable. A Harvard-trained economist from Walnut Creek who became the first Black American to chair the Council of Economic Advisers, then went on to lead the Brookings Institution. The titles are impressive, but what I value is where she pointed her research: education and labor inequality, the unglamorous arithmetic of who gets left behind. She is not a cable-news firebrand; she is the sort of mind that quietly props up the foundations of policy. In an era loud with opinion, I trust people who let the data do the arguing, and she does.
Overview
Cecilia Elena Rouse ( ROWSS; born December 18, 1963) is an American economist and the President of the Brookings Institution. She served as the 30th Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers between 2021 and 2023. She is the first Black American to hold this position. Prior to this, she served as the dean of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.
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1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Cecilia Rouse
- Name (Japanese)
- セシリア・ラウズ
- Reading
- せしりあ・らうず
- Born
- December 18, 1963 (age 62)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Sagittarius / Rabbit
- Origin
- Walnut Creek, California, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- economist / university teacher
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Torrey Pines High School
- University
- Harvard University
Awards & achievements
- 2016 Carolyn Shaw Bell Award
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.