Since 2010 Keith Hennessey has been a lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business teaching economic policy and civics. He also serves as the David Rubenstein Leadership Fellow at the George W. Bush Institute in Dallas.

Keith Hennessey spent 14 years advising senior elected officials on economic policy, including serving as the senior White House economic advisor to President George W. Bush. As deputy director and then director of the White House National Economic Council, he coordinated economic policy design and implementation for the president.

The last thirteen months of his time in the White House were by far the most intense, helping President Bush and his team respond to the financial crisis.

In addition to that work, here are some of the major presidential policies that he helped design, enact, and implement:

• 2003 law that cut taxes on income, capital gains, dividends, marriage, children, small businesses, and estates;
• 2008 economic stimulus, as well as tax cuts in 2004, 2005, and 2006;
• Reforming the regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac;
• Two energy laws that support nuclear power and other alternative energy technologies;
• Eliminating the ban on offshore drilling for oil and natural gas in certain areas;
• “Major Economies” process that restructured global climate change negotiations to ensure participation by all large economies;
• Creating health savings accounts and implementing health policies to improve price and quality transparency;
• Bringing private-sector competition and market forces to Medicare and adding a prescription drug benefit;
• Providing loans to U.S. auto manufacturers in 2008;
• Coordinating the Administration’s response to the 2002 West Coast Port Strike;
• Coordinating the Administration’s response to the 2002 Mad Cow disease outbreak; and
• Creating the most popular economic policy change of President Bush’s tenure: the Do-Not-Call list

He was involved in budget and international economic issues, including all of the president’s budget submissions from 2003 to 2008, the president’s line-item veto proposal and earmark reforms, the G-20 summit of 2008, several free trade agreements, the Doha global trade negotiations, and the president’s open investment policies.

Mr. Hennessey is also a member of the Aspen Economic Strategy Group.