Our Team
Expert Team
Eric Hanushek
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution (Stanford), specializing in economic analysis of educational issues. Won the Yidan Prize for research.
Glenn Hubbard
Dean Emeritus of Columbia Business School. Former Deputy Secretary of the Treasury. Former Chair of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers.
Robert Reischauer
President Emeritus, Urban Institute. Former director of the Congressional Budget Office. Former trustee of Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds.
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach
Professor of Human Development and Social Policy, Northwestern. Former Director of the Hamilton Project at Brookings. Scholar at Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
Michael Strain (Team Co-Leader)
Director of Economic Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute. Member of Aspen Economic Strategy Group. Research fellow at Germany’s IZA Institute of Labor Economics.
Bill Hoagland
Senior Vice President, Bipartisan Policy Center. Former Director of the Senate Budget Committee. Participated in major federal budget negotiations throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
Maya MacGuineas
President, Committee for a Responsible Federal Government. Specializes in budget, tax, and economic policies. Serves as a consistent resource on Capitol Hill and international media outlets.
Gerard Robinson
Fellow of Practice, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture (UVA). Former Secretary of Education in Virginia. Former Commissioner of Education in Florida.
Richard Schmalensee
Former Dean of Sloan School of Management, MIT. Former Director of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Former member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers.
Douglas Holtz-Eakin
Founder and President, American Action Forum. Former Director of the Congressional Budget Office. Former senior economist on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers.
Richard V. Reeves
Senior Fellow, Brookings. Specializes in economic studies. Former European Business Speaker of the Year. Former principal policy advisor to the Minister of Welfare Reform in Great Britain.
Isabel Sawhill (Team Co-Leader)
Senior Fellow and former Director of Economic Studies at Brookings. Former Associate Director of the Office of Management and Budget.
Eugene Steuerle
Fellow, Urban Institute. Former Deputy Secretary for Treasury. Co-founder and former President of National Tax Association. One of the chief architects of the 1986 Tax Reform Act
Board of Advisors
Barry Anderson
Former Acting Director, Congressional Budget Office
Andrew Card
Former Chief of Staff to the President of the United States
Hahrie Han
Inaugural Director, SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University
Adi Ignatius
Editor, Harvard Business Review
Thomas Kahn
Distinguished Fellow, Center for Congressional & Presidential Studies, American University
Seth Radwell
Author of American Schism, winner of the International Book Award for Best General Nonfiction
Lawrence Susskind
Vice Chair and Co-Founder, Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School
Charles Wheelan
Founder and Co-Chair, Unite America
Kristina Becvar
Executive Director, Bridge Alliance, Co-Publisher, The Fulcrum
Larry Diamond
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution; Founding Co-Editor, Journal of Democracy
Jake Harriman
Founder and CEO, More Perfect Union
Francis Johnson
Former President, Take Back Our Republic
Joseph V. Kennedy
Former Senior Economist with the Joint Economic Committee in Congress
John Rogers
Founder, RL Leaders
Jerry Taylor
Co-Founder and Former President of the Niskanen Center
Steve Bartlett
Former President of the Financial Services Roundtable and former mayor of Dallas
Francis Fukuyama
Professor, Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law
DeVone Holt
President and CEO, Muhammad Ali Center
Kelly Johnston
Former Secretary of the U.S. Senate
Carolyn Lukensmeyer
Executive Director Emeritus, National Institute for Civil Discourse
Eugene Steuerle
Richard Fischer chair at the Urban Institute; co-founder, Tax Policy Center
David Walker
Former Comptroller General of the United States
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