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 University of California, Los Angeles.

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. Prior to joining UCLA, Clausing was the Thormund A. Miller and Walter Mintz Professor of Economics at Reed College.

Her research focuses on the taxation of multinational firms, examining how government decisions and corporate behavior interplay in the global economy. She has published numerous articles in this area, and she is the author of Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital (Harvard University Press, 2019).

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.

She has worked on economic policy research with the International Monetary Fund, the Hamilton Project, the Brookings Institution, and the Tax Policy Center. She was a nonresident senior fellow at the Center for American Progress from 2019 to 2021. She has testified before the House Ways and Means Committee, the Senate Committee on Finance, and the Joint Economic Committee.

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