page_title: List of Phillips Exeter Academy people
section_title: 1980s
hierarchical_section_title: List of Phillips Exeter Academy people / Notable alumni / 1980s
caption_attribution_description: English: Peter Orszag, Director of the Office of Management and Budget.
context_page_description: The following is a list of notable faculty, trustees, and alumni of Phillips Exeter Academy, a preparatory school in Exeter, New Hampshire, founded in 1781.
context_section_description: Ted Hope (1980) – independent film producer, including The Ice Storm and Happiness
  Heather Cox Richardson (1980) – historian
  Greg Daniels (1981) – producer, including The Simpsons; adapted U.S. version of The Office from the BBC version; winner of four Emmy Awards
  Dave Douglas (1981) – jazz trumpeter and composer
  Pamela Erens (1981) – novelist
  Paul Klebnikov (1981) – journalist; murdered in Moscow
  Sarah Lyall (1981) – reporter, The New York Times
  Dan Brown (1982) – former instructor in English at Phillips Exeter Academy; bestselling author, The Da Vinci Code
  Kim McLarin (1982) – novelist
  Stephen Metcalf (1982) – critic-at-large and columnist at Slate magazine (did not graduate)
  Nancy Jo Sales (1982) – journalist; author
  Cosy Sheridan (1982) – folk singer and songwriter
  Gwynneth Coogan (1983) – Olympic athlete (10,000m, 1992)
  Adam Guettel (1983) – musical theater composer; composed The Light in the Piazza;  winner of six Tony Awards
  Chang-Rae Lee (1983) – author
  Charles Cameron Ludington (1983) – historian
  Henry Blodget (1984) – Editor and CEO of Business Insider
  Julie Livingston (1984) – public health historian, anthropologist, MacArthur Fellow
  Stephanie Stebich (1984) – director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
  Roland Tec (1984) – writer, director
  Vanessa Friedman (1985) – fashion critic
  Shinichi Mochizuki (1985) – mathematician
  Edmund Perry (1985) – African-American teenager shot and killed by NYPD officers; inspiration to Michael Jackson
  Maya Forbes (1986) – screenwriter and television producer
  David Folkenflik (1987) – National Public Radio reporter
  Christine Harper (1987) – chief financial correspondent at Bloomberg News
  Tal Keinan (c. 1987) – Israeli entrepreneur, financier
  Madeline McIntosh (1987) – CEO of Penguin Random House
  Kenji Yoshino (1987) – law school professor, author
  Peter Orszag (1987) – Director of U.S. Office of Management & Budget under President Barack Obama
  China Forbes (1988) – musician (lead singer of Pink Martini)
  Claudine Gay (1988) – professor of Government and of African and African-American Studies, Dean of Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University
  Niel Brandt (1988) – professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Pennsylvania State University
  Darius Arya (1989) – archaeologist, professor, documentary host
  David Goel (1989) – hedge fund manager
  Jeff Locker (c. 1989) – actor
  Joon Kim (1989) – Acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York
caption: Peter R. Orszag
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