Romina Boccia, a leading fiscal and economic expert at The Heritage Foundation, is director of the think tank’s Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget. Boccia leads a team of experts covering fiscal policy, Social Security, pension reform, and workforce issues such as the gender wage gap and workplace benefits policy. She often advises members of Congress, the administration and their staffs on economic and fiscal policy issues, and she has testified before congressional committees in the House and Senate. She’s the editor of Heritage’s flagship budget proposal, The Blueprint for Balance and leads the organization’s project on the future of work.

Romina was the third speaker of the 2019 season and spoke to the CEC on Wednesday May 8, 2019. Her topic was entitled “The Most Predictable Crisis in US History: The Causes, Costs, and Consequences of the U.S. Debt”