About Rosanne Altshuler

Rosanne Altshuler is Professor Emerita of Economics at Rutgers University. She was formerly Chair of the Economics Department and Dean of Social and Behavioral Sciences in the School of Arts and Sciences. Her research focuses on federal tax policy.

Rosanne is the recipient of the National Tax Association’s most prestigious award, the Daniel M. Holland Medal for lifetime achievement in the study of the theory and practice of public finance. She was awarded the Richard Musgrave Visiting Professorship for 2023 by CESifo and the International Institute of Public Finance. Rosanne is a former Editor of the National Tax Journal and former Editor of the Policy Watch section of International Tax and Public Finance. She has served as President of the National Tax Association and been a member of the Board of Directors of the National Tax Association, the Panel of Economic Advisers of the Congressional Budget Office, and the Board of Trustees of the American Tax Policy Institute.

Rosanne has been active in the policy world as Director of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, Senior Economist to the 2005 President’s Advisory Panel of Federal Tax Reform, and Special Advisor to the Joint Committee on Taxation. She has testified before the Senate Finance and House Ways and Means Committee.

Rosanne received her B.A. from Tufts University and her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. Her dissertation was the winner of the National Tax Association’s Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award in 1988. Rosanne has been a visiting professor at Columbia University, Princeton University, New York University’s School of Law and the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University.