Meeting/Event Information

Get ready for a sneak peek into 2026! Join us as John Diamond, Ph.D., from the Baker Institute, reveals his insights on the U.S. economy and what the new year holds. This is a must-attend event for anyone looking to stay ahead—don’t miss out!

About Our Speaker

John W. Diamond, Ph.D., is the Edward A. and Hermena Hancock Kelly Senior Fellow in Public Finance and the senior director of the Center for Tax and Budget Policy at the Baker Institute, an adjunct professor of economics at Rice University, and CEO of Tax Policy Advisers, LLC. His research interests are federal tax and expenditure policy, state and local public finance, and the construction and simulation of computable general equilibrium models. His current research focuses on the economic effects of corporate tax reform, the economic and distributional effects of fundamental tax reform, taxation and housing values, public sector pensions, and various other tax and expenditure policy issues.

Diamond is co-editor of “Pathways to Fiscal Reform in the United States” (The MIT Press, 2015) and “Fundamental Tax Reform: Issues, Choices and Implications” (The MIT Press, 2008). He has testified before the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee, the U.S. House Budget Committee, the Senate Finance Committee, the Joint Economic Committee and other federal and state committees on issues related to tax policy and the U.S. economy. Diamond served as forum editor for the National Tax Journal (2009-2017) and on the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation, U.S. Congress (2000-2004). He has also served as a consultant for the World Bank on the efficacy of structural adjustment programs.