Robert J. Carroll is a renowned economist with an impressive background that spans both the public and private sectors. He is currently a Co-leader of Ernst & Young LLP’s Quantitative Economics and Statistics (QUEST) group, where he advises clients on various subjects, including federal tax policy, tax reform, macroeconomic impact analyses, and revenue impact analyses of policy changes. Prior to his current role, he served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Analysis at the US Department of the Treasury and oversaw the Department’s efforts to reform the tax system.

Bob has a Ph.D. in Economics from Syracuse University and has worked as a Visiting Scholar with the Congressional Budget Office and Senior Economist for Public Economics with the President’s Council on Economic Advisers. He has also taught at American University’s School of Public Affairs and acted as a Senior Fellow with the Tax Foundation.

Bob has published numerous papers on tax issues in academic and other journals and testified before Congress on topics such as tax reform, value-added taxation, tax expenditures, the taxation of pass-through businesses, and more. In 2011, he co-authored a book entitled, Progressive Consumption Taxation, which has become an essential resource for scholars and policymakers.