Senior Economist and Research Officer
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Alan D. Viard is a senior economist and research officer at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, where he conducts research in public finance and macroeconomics, with a focus on tax and fiscal policy and Social Security. During leaves of absence, Viard served as a senior economist at the Council of Economic Advisers from April 2003 to April 2004 and as a visiting scholar in the Office of Tax Analysis in the U. S. Treasury Department from January to July 2005.

Before joining the Dallas Fed, Viard was an assistant professor of economics at Ohio State University. He was also a staff economist at the Joint Committee on Taxation of the U.S. Congress in 1992–93 and a visiting foreign scholar at Osaka University in Japan in 1995. He has authored more than 20 articles in professional journals and Federal Reserve publications.

Viard received a B.A. in economics from Yale University in 1984 and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1990.