Kimberly Clausing

Kimberly Clausing, nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics since September 2022, holds the Eric M. Zolt Chair in Tax Law and Policy at the UCLA School of Law.

Clausing is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research. During the first part of the Biden administration, Clausing was the deputy assistant secretary for tax analysis in the US Department of the Treasury, serving as the lead economist in the Office of Tax Policy. 

Her research examines how government decisions and corporate behavior interplay in the global economy. She has published numerous articles on taxation, climate policy, and international trade. She is the author of Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital (Harvard University Press, 2019).

Clausing has worked on economic policy research with the International Monetary Fund, the Hamilton Project, the Brookings Institution, the Tax Policy Center, and the Center for American Progress. She has testified before the House Ways and Means Committee, the Senate Committee on Finance, the Senate Committee on the Budget, and the Joint Economic Committee.

Clausing has received two Fulbright Research awards (to Belgium and Cyprus), and her research has been supported by external grants from the National Science Foundation, the Smith Richardson Foundation, the International Centre for Tax and Development, the US Bureau of Economic Analysis, and the Washington Center for Equitable Growth.

Clausing received her BA from Carleton College in 1991 and her PhD from Harvard University in 1996, both in economics.