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Upcoming Speaker
Romina Boccia, Director of Federal Budget and Entitlement Policy, Cato Institute
Topic: Defusing the US Debt Crisis
Date: Wednesday May 14, 2025
Romina Boccia is director of budget and entitlement policy at the Cato Institute, where she specializes in federal spending, budget process, economic implications of rising debt, and Social Security and Medicare reform. She also writes The Debt Dispatch on Substack.
Boccia advises presidential administrations and the Congress on US federal fiscal policy and Social Security reform. She’s best known for being ‘an economist who speaks English’ and for promoting a fiscal commission modeled after the Base Realignment and Closure process. She’s co-author of the edited volume A Fiscal Cliff: New Perspectives on the US Federal Debt Crisis and is currently working on a new book to publish in 2025, titled Reimagining Social Security: Global Lessons for Retirement Policy Changes.
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