About me
Romina Boccia is Director of Budget and Entitlement Policy at the Cato Institute, where she specializes in federal spending, the budget process, the economic consequences of rising debt, and reforming Social Security and Medicare. She is the principal author of Debt Dispatch, the leading fiscal newsletter read by members of Congress, delivering clear-eyed analysis on Washington’s most pressing budget challenges.
Previously, Boccia served as Director of the Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget at the Heritage Foundation, where she was the principal author of the organization’s flagship budget plan, Blueprint for Balance. Her scholarship includes contributions to A Fiscal Cliff: New Perspectives on the US Federal Debt Crisis and the peer-reviewed journal Homo Oeconomicus. Her forthcoming book, Reimagining Social Security: Global Lessons for Retirement Policy Changes (co-authored with Ivane Nachkebia), will be published by Cato in August 2025.
Boccia most recently served as Managing Director at Dialog, an invite-only global leadership network cofounded by Peter Thiel and Auren Hoffman, convening senior leaders across business, technology, government, and academia for high-level, off-the-record discussions. A native of Augsburg, Germany, she holds both MA and BS degrees in economics from George Mason University.
In policy circles and on Capitol Hill, Boccia is known for bringing fiscal debates back to first principles — and back to the math.
