Lawrence Kudlow

**Lawrence Alan** "**Larry**" **Kudlow** (born August 20, 1947) is an American conservative commentator, economic analyst, television personality, and newspaper columnist. He was the 12th Director of the National Economic Council from April 2, 2018 to January 20, 2021. He was the host of CNBC's _The Kudlow Report_. As a syndicated columnist, his articles appear in numerous U.S. newspapers and web sites, including his own blog, _Kudlow's Money Politic$_.

In March 2018, President Donald Trump appointed Kudlow to be Director of the National Economic Council, replacing Gary Cohn.

## Personal life

Kudlow was born and raised in Englewood, New Jersey.

He is of Jewish descent, and converted to Roman Catholicism.

On June 11, 2018, Kudlow suffered a heart attack.

## Career

In 1970, while he was still a Democrat, Kudlow joined Americans for Democratic Action chair Joseph Duffey's "New Politics" senatorial campaign in Connecticut which also attracted an "A-list crowd of young Democrats", including Yale University law student Bill Clinton, John Podesta, and Michael Medved, another future conservative. Duffey was a leading anti-war politician during the Vietnam war era. Duffey's campaign manager called Kudlow a "brilliant organizer". In 1976, he worked on the U.S. Senate campaign of Daniel Patrick Moynihan, along with Tim Russert, against Conservative Party incumbent James L. Buckley, brother of William F. Buckley, Jr.

Kudlow began his career as a staff economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, taking a position "as a junior economist in a job where a master's degree wasn't required". He worked in the division of the Fed that handled open market operations.

During the first term of the Reagan administration (1981–1985), Kudlow was associate director for economics and planning in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), a part of the Executive Office of the President. In April 2005, New York Governor George Pataki included Kudlow in a six-member state tax commission.

Kudlow's name was floated by Republicans as a potential Senate candidate in either Connecticut or New York in 2016. In October 2015, U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal, in an email to supporters, attacked Kudlow as "a champion of big corporations and big money" despite Kudlow's not announcing a run. In early December 2015, Jack Fowler of _National Review_ created a 527 organization that encouraged Kudlow to run.

## Other websites

- Kudlow's Money Politic$ blog
- Kudlow & Company  consulting company
- Profile  at _CNBC.com_
- Column archive  at _Townhall.com_
- Column archive at _National Review Online_
- Column archive at Creators Syndicate

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **name**: Larry Kudlow
- **image**: White House Press Briefing (50322465258) (cropped).jpg
- **caption**: Kudlow at the White House in September 2020
- **office**: 12th Director of the United States National Economic Council, National Economic Council
- **president**: Donald Trump
- **term start**: April 2, 2018
- **term end**: January 20, 2021
- **predecessor**: Gary Cohn
- **successor**: Brian Deese
- **birth name**: Lawrence Alan Kudlow
- **birth place**: Englewood, New Jersey, Englewood, New Jersey, United States, U.S.
- **party**: Republican Party (United States), Republican
Democratic Party (United States), Democratic
- **spouse**:
Susan Cullman Sicher

- **education**: University of Rochester
- **known for**: _The Kudlow Report_
_Kudlow & Cramer_