[1] Samwick is currently Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College (since 1994) and the director of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences.
In 2009, Samwick was named the New Hampshire Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
Samwick received a Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, in economics and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa at Harvard College in 1989.
Samwick has consulted for the Canadian government, the U.S. Social Security Administration, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, and the World Bank.
His research interests include: finance, macroeconomics, Social Security, saving, and taxation.