In 2001-2002, he was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Economic Policy at the U.S. Treasury and currently serves on the Blue Ribbon Advisory Panel on Dynamic Scoring for the U.S. Congress. Shinichi Nishiyama is an Assistant Professor of Risk Management and Insurance in the Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University. In 2000-2005, he was a principal analyst of fiscal policy studies at the Congressional Budget Office, and specialized in the macroeconomic analyses of president's budget and Social Security reform.