Dr. Peter R. Orszag is the CEO and member of the Board of Directors of Lazard, one of the world’s preeminent financial advisory and asset management firms. As CEO, Orszag has raised the firm’s relevance and ambitions to provide the most sophisticated and differentiated advice and investment solutions for clients. Prior to becoming Chief Executive of the firm in October 2023, Orszag served as CEO of its financial advisory business and global co-head of its healthcare practice.
Orszag served as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under President Barack Obama, where he also helped craft the Affordable Care Act. He previously served as Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), providing economic data and analyses to Congress. His career in public service began under the Clinton administration, where he served as a Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and as a Senior Economist and Senior Adviser on the Council of Economic Advisers. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.
Orszag has also made notable contributions to academic literature, including hundreds of published articles and several books. As a senior fellow at Brookings, he co-founded and directed the Hamilton Project, and he currently serves as a Board Director for the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Orszag graduated summa cum laude in Economics from Princeton University and obtained a Ph.D. in Economics from the London School of Economics, which he attended as a Marshall Scholar.
