Kevin Allen Hassett (born March 20, 1962) is an American economist who has been the Director of the National Economic Council since 2025.

Hassett did not focus on public health policy, but rather influenced the administration's response from an economic angle amid lockdowns and social distancing.

He served as a policy consultant to the United States Treasury Department during the George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations.

[14] In 2007, Hassett argued that the United States was on the wrong side of the Laffer curve in terms of corporate tax rates.

The book's title was based on a calculation that, in the absence of the equity premium, stock prices would be approximately four times as high as they actually were.

In its introduction, Glassman and Hassett wrote that the book "will convince you of the single most important fact about stocks at the dawn of the twenty-first century: They are cheap...

[24] According to The New York Times, Hassett's nomination by Trump to lead the Council of Economic Advisers was met with opposition by some anti-immigration groups such as Breitbart News, American Renaissance, the Center for Immigration Studies.

"Prior to Hassett's nomination, President Trump "broke with recent tradition and removed the council's chairman from a cabinet-level position".

[7] On March 20, 2020, it was announced that Hassett will be returning to the White House on a temporary basis to advise President Trump on economic policy amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

[8] In early-May 2020, Hassett said there might not be a need for more coronavirus economic relief, invoking the possibility that economies in nearly all states could be re-opened by the end of May.

[9][11] Hassett has reportedly been shortlisted for nomination as Chair of the Federal Reserve if former president Donald Trump were to win re-election in 2024.