Dr. Randall Lutter
Associate Commissioner for Policy and Planning
Food and Drug Administration
As the new Associate Commissioner for Policy and Planning, Dr. Lutter will be a senior advisor to Acting FDA Commissioner Dr. Lester M. Crawford on all major agency matters including regulations, policy and administrative programs. In particular, Dr. Lutter's office will assess the public policy implications of FDA's regulatory and administrative activities.
At FDA, Dr. Lutter has played a lead role implementing the agency’s goal of efficient science-based risk management and directed analysis of international differences in drug prices and the effects of drug importation. Before joining FDA he was a resident scholar with the American Enterprise Institute and fellow with the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies. From 1991 to 1997 he served at the Office of Management and Budget in the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs and from 1997 to 1998 he was senior economist for regulation and the environment at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. He taught at the State University of New York at Buffalo after earning his doctorate in economics at Cornell University. His research papers have appeared in Science, Environmental Science & Technology, the Journal of Political Economy, Regulation, and other journals.