Janet Holtzblatt
Senior Fellow, Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center
Holtzblatt has served on the board of directors for the National Tax Association. In 2017, she received the Referee of the Year Award from the National Tax Journal. She was the recipient of the 2020 Davie-Davis Public Service Award, which is bestowed annually by the National Tax Association. She has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Politico and on NBC, Bloomberg, NPR, and C-SPAN.
Before joining Urban, Holtzblatt was the unit chief for tax policy studies in the Tax Analysis Division of the Congressional Budget Office. Before that, she was deputy director of the Individual Taxation Division in the US Treasury Office of Tax Analysis and a senior analyst on the Senate Budget Committee. She earned her bachelor’s degree in economics and history from the University of Illinois and a doctoral degree in economics from the University of Wisconsin.