Keith Hall

Keith Hall is a prominent economist who has held top leadership and chief economist roles across several major U.S. government economic agencies. He served as the director of the U.S. Congressional Budget Office from 2015 to 2019. He was the Commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics from 2008 until 2012. And he served as chief economist of the White House Council of Economic Advisers (2005-8), the U.S. Department of Commerce (2002-5), and the U.S. International Trade Commission (2014-15).

Career Hall was nominated by President George W. Bush to the position of Commissioner of the BLS in September 2007 and confirmed by the Senate in December. He was sworn into office in January 2008 and served a four-year term ending in 2012.

On April 1, 2011, Hall testified on Capitol Hill to the United States Congress Joint Economic Committee that the nation's unemployment rate had fallen to 8.8 percent, a two-year low. Statistics released by the BLS showed that non-farm payroll employment rose by 1.5 million from February 2010 and private sector employment increased by 1.8 million during the same period.

Hall was the ninth director of the Congressional Budget Office from April 1, 2015 to May 31, 2019.

Education Hall received his B.A. from the University of Virginia and his Ph.D. from Purdue University.