Phillip Oliff leads Pew’s work exploring the fiscal and policy relationships between the federal and state governments on a variety of topics, including how federal budget and tax changes could affect states, the role that federal and state finances play in higher education, and surface transportation.
Oliff also manages a team of researchers focused on the challenges of and possible solutions for student loan defaults and veterans’ higher education debt. Oliff previously was a policy analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, where he wrote reports on topics including education finance, state tax policy, states’ post-recession fiscal conditions, and the impact of emergency federal aid on state budgets.
Oliff holds a bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University’s College of Social Studies and a master’s in public policy from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.