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Samarth Gupta

Fellow, Tax Policy

As a Roosevelt Institute fellow, Samarth Gupta works on social safety net and tax bracket reform.

Samarth Gupta is a Roosevelt Institute fellow focused on tax policy. He most recently served at the US Department of the Treasury from 2022 to 2025, as a special assistant for Russia/Ukraine in the Office of Economic Policy, and as a policy advisor to the deputy secretary. Prior to joining the Treasury, he served at the Office of Management and Budget working under the chief economist to craft the president’s Billionaire Minimum Tax. He worked on the economic policy teams for the 2020 Biden-Harris campaign and transition.

He holds an AB in economics from Harvard College where he was a Truman Scholar, an MPhil in comparative social policy from Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and a JD from Yale Law School. He was born in New Delhi and raised in Acton, Massachusetts.