Christina Romer

American economist who served as the 25th chair of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Obama administration from 29 January 2009 until she resigned on 3 September 2010.

After her nomination and before the Obama administration took office, Romer worked with economist Jared Bernstein to co-author the administration's plan for recovery from the 2008 recession. In a January 2009 video presentation, she discussed details of the job creation program that the Obama administration submitted to Congress.

She is currently the Class of 1957 Garff B. Wilson Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.

She is married to David Romer, her classmate at MIT and her colleague in the economics department at University of California, Berkeley. They have adjoining offices in the department, and collaborate on much of their research. The couple has three children together.