Daniel Hornung

Daniel Hornung is currently a policy fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and a nonresident fellow at the Urban Institute. Hornung previously served nearly a decade in economic policy roles at the White House during the Obama and Biden Administrations, including most recently as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of the National Economic Council. In that role, he oversaw the National Economic Council’s work on macroeconomic analysis, tax and fiscal policy, and housing policy, including leading policy development, regulatory efforts, and implementation within the NEC for pandemic recovery legislation, clean energy investment legislation, debt limit negotiations, and housing policy actions including pandemic mortgage and rental relief efforts and the Housing Supply Action Plan.Hornung previously served as a law clerk to Judge Merrick Garland on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, and worked during the Obama Administration in the Office of the Chief of Staff and the Office of Management and Budget. Hornung holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and B.A. in economics and political science from Yale College.