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Urban Institute
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“Our [Ostensible] Mission”
The Urban Institute gathers data, conducts research, evaluates programs, offers technical assistance overseas, and educates Americans on social and economic issues — to foster “sound” public policy and effective government.
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Board of Trustees
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Joel L. Fleishman (Chairman)
Professor of Law & Public Policy, and Director of the Samuel & Ronnie Heyman Center for “Ethics”, Public Policy and Professions, Duke University
Fleishman is a professor, lawyer, and leading expert on American “philanthropy”. He has served as president of The Atlantic “Philanthropic” Service Company (the U.S. program staff for Atlantic “Philanthropies”) and was the founding director of what is now the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University.
Center for Effective “Philanthropy” – director; Duke University – professor; Jewish Theological Seminary – trustee; Markle Foundation – director; Partnership for Public Service – director; Polo Ralph Lauren – director; Urban Institute – chairman. “Past”: Atlantic Philanthropies – president; Boston Scientific Corp. – director (and see other connections).
-Joel L Fleishman 203 Wood Cir; Chapel Hill, NC 27514-2421 (919) 960-3511
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-Joel L Fleishman Jr 205 Wood Cir; Chapel Hill, NC 27514-2421 (919) 967-7083 [65+]
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Robert M. Solow (Vice Chairman)
Institute Professor of Economics Emeritus, MIT
Solow is an economic theorist whose many honors include the Nobel Prize for Economics and the National Medal of Science. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has been chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
-Robert M Solow 528 Lewis Wharf; Boston, MA 02110-3920 (617) 227-4436 [65+ / Barbara L Solow]
-Robert M Solow 28 Atlantic Ave; Boston, MA 02110-3802 [65+ / Barbara R Solow]
-Robert M Solow South Rd; Chilmark, MA (508) 645-3366 [65+ / Barbara L Solow]
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J[onathan] Adam Abram
President and CEO of James River Group, Inc., Chairman of Franklin Holdings Ltd., and Chairman of Piedmont Community Banking Holdings, Inc.
Abram has founded and directed four companies in financial services and real estate: Adaron Group, Inc., Front Royal, Inc., James River Group, Inc., and, most recently, Piedmont Community Bank Holdings, Inc., a federally chartered bank holding company with plans to create a community bank to serve southern Virginia, North Carolina, and parts of South Carolina.
He is married to Rosalind Abram (G ’80), who is a psychologist in Chapel Hill, NC. Their son, Benjamin (E ’07, AB ’07), studied public policy and engineering at Duke and their son, Joshua, attends Harvard.
-Rosalind S Abram 109 Catawba Ct; Chapel Hill, NC 27514-9518 (919) 929-9556 [55-59 / Jonathan A Abram, Ben S Abram]
-son Joshua>: Joshua Abram 72 Whig St; Dennis, MA 02638-1921 (508) 385-2409 [45-49 / Cristina A Abram, Max Abram]
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Afsaneh Beschloss
<–Michael Beschloss
President and CEO of the Rock Creek Group
Mrs. Beschloss is an economist with experience in finance and investments as well as in energy and environmental areas. She heads an investment group and was Treasurer and Chief Investment Officer at the World Bank where she also held other high offices, and has worked at J.P. Morgan and Shell International Group Planning. She also taught international trade at Oxford University and is a Trustee of the Ford Foundation, and chairs its investment committee.
AMB Property Corporation – director; Ford Foundation – trustee; Rock Creek Group – president & CEO; Urban Institute – trustee; World Resources Institute – director. “Past”: Carlyle Group – senior adviser; Temple-Inland, Inc. – director; World Bank – director of investments, treasurer & CIO (and see connections).
-Afsaneh M Beschloss 2611 31st St NW; Washington, DC 20008-3519 (202) 342-0781 or (202) 364-9555 or (202) 333-8119 [55-59 / Michael R Beschloss, Mary Beschloss]
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Jamie S. Gorelick
Partner, WilmerHale
Ms. Gorelick is a lawyer with high-level government experience. A former member of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, she has also been deputy attorney general of the United states and general counsel of the Department of Defense.
Jamie S. Gorelick is a partner at the international law firm, WilmerHale, having joined the firm in 2003.
She has held numerous positions in the U.S. government, serving as deputy attorney general of the United States, as general counsel of the Department of Defense, as assistant to the secretary of Energy, and most recently as a member of the bipartisan National Commission on Terrorist Threats Upon the United States.
She also served as vice chair of Fannie Mae from 1997 to 2003.
Muckety news stories featuring Jamie S. Gorelick:
Jamie S. Gorelick, a former assistant attorney general in the Clinton administration and a member of the 9/11 commission, is keeping busy in the private sector. – March 16, 2010
American Law Institute – member; BP p.l.c. – attorney; Carnegie Endowment for International Peace – trustee; Central Intelligence Agency National Security Advisory Panel – member; Council on Foreign Relations – member; Harvard Law School – graduate; Harvard University – graduate; John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation – director; Sallie Mae – lobbyist; Schlumberger Limited – director; United Technologies Corporation – director; Urban Institute – trustee; Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless – board member; Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr – partner. “Past”: Advisory Committee of the Presidents Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection – co-chair; America’s Promise, The Alliance for Youth – director; District of Columbia Bar – president; Fannie Mae – vice chair; Local Initiatives Support Corporation – director; National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States – commissioner; National Park Foundation – board member; U.S. Department of Defense – general counsel; U.S. Department of Energy – assistant to the secretary; U.S. Department of Justice – deputy attorney general (and see connections).
…married to Dr. Richard Waldhorn – 2 children.
-Richard E Waldhorn 3713 Williams Ln; Chevy Chase, MD 20815-4951 (301) 986-0601 or (301) 986-5277 [55-59 / Daniel Waldhorn]
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Richard G. Green, Jr.
Director of The Calvin Group LLC and Chairman of the Midwest Research Institute
Green is an energy industry executive and expert. He has been CEO of Aquila, Inc., a regulated utility, and he expanded UtiliCorp United, predecessor of Aquila, into a Fortune 30 company.
-1 of these, undoubtedly: http://www.whitepages.com/search/FindPerson?firstname_begins_with=1&firstname=Richard+C.+Jr.&name=Green&where=mo
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Fernando Guerra
Director of Health, San Antonio Metropolitan Health District
Dr. Guerra is a pediatrician, civic leader, and professor of Pediatrics. A public official, he also teaches at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, the Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine at Brooks Air Force Base, and the University of Texas School of Public Health in Houston. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine and the Academy of Medicine, Engineering, and Science of Texas.
-one or more of these, undoubtedly: http://www.whitepages.com/search/FindPerson?firstname_begins_with=1&firstname=Fernando+&name=Guerra&where=san+antonio%2C+tx
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Freeman Hrabowski, III
President, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Dr. Hrabowski is an expert on science and math performance, specializing in minority participation and performance in these fields. He currently advises the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, and schools and universities nationwide.
* Pals w/ Varmus, Meyerhoff and many more, &c.
-Freeman A Hrabowski III 18 Aston Ct; Owings Mills, MD 21117-1439 (410) 581-2235 [55-59 / Jacqueline Hrabowski]
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Charles L. Mee, Jr.
Author, Playwright, and Historian
Mee’s many oft-produced plays include First Love, True Love, and Big Love. His books include The End of Order, Meeting at Potsdam, Seizure, and The Marshall Plan. Among other awards, he has received the gold medal for lifetime achievement from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
-Charles L Mee Jr 20 Strong Pl; Brooklyn, NY 11231-3728 (718) 858-5365 [65+ / Ahce Tolan-Mee, Alice Tolan, Sarah Tolan-Mee]
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Annette L. Nazareth
Partner, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
Ms. Nazareth is a lawyer and a former policymaker. She served as a Commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and as the Director of the SEC’s Division of Trading and Markets. She has also held senior legal positions in the investment banking industry.
Annette L. Nazareth was believed to have been Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s first choice as deputy in 2009. However, she reportedly withdrew her name from consideration.
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace – trustee; CREF – overseer; Economic Club of New York – trustee; Group of Thirty – member; Institute for Advanced Study – trustee; International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. – director; Math for America – director; New America Foundation – director; Partnership for New York City – director; President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board – member; TIAA – overseer, trustee; TIAA-CREF – president & CEO. “Past”: Federal Reserve Board – vice chairman; Harvard University – overseer; McKinsey & Company – partner; Obama-Biden economic advisory team – member; Swiss Re America Holding Corporation – chairman (and see connections).
-Annette L Nazareth 3060 Foxhall Rd NW; Washington, DC 20016-3470 [50-54 /(Roger Ferguson Jr. listed here too)]
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Melvin L. Oliver
Dean of Social Sciences, and Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara
Dr. Oliver is a university administrator, professor, expert on racial and urban inequality and poverty, and former foundation executive. He has been vice president of the Asset building and Community Development Program at the Ford Foundation and professor of sociology at UCLA.
-Melvin L Oliver 25 E Islay St; Santa Barbara, CA 93101-2410 [55-59 / Suzanne L Oliver]
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Joshua B. Rales
Founder and Managing Partner, of RFI Associates
Rales is a lawyer, investor, and “philanthropist”. Through his RFI Foundation, Mr. Rales supports organizations committed to educational equity, cancer research, health care for the uninsured, and other social services for the underprivileged.
-Joshua B Rales 9212 River Rd ; Potomac, MD 20854-4628 [50-54 / Debra L Rales]
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Robert D. Reischauer – President, The Urban Institute
Dr. Reischauer is an economist, nationally known expert on health care and fiscal issues, former government official, and nonprofit executive. He has served as director of the Congressional Budget Office, a fellow of the Brookings Institution, and vice chairman of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. Early in his career, he was vice president of the Urban Institute.
-Robert D Reischauer 5509 Mohican Rd; Bethesda, MD 20816-2159 (301) 229-2086 [Charlotte S Reischauer, Alyssa G Reischauer]
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Jeremy Travis
President, John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York
Travis is a national expert on criminal justice, a lawyer, an educator, and a public servant. He has launched a national research program on prisoner reentry at the Urban Institute, directed the National Institute of Justice, held high-level positions in the New York City Policy Department and the Mayor’s office, clerked for Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Court of Appeals, and worked for the Vera Institute of Justice.
-I would think it’s one of these: http://www.whitepages.com/search/FindPerson?firstname_begins_with=1&firstname=Jeremy+&name=Travis&where=NY
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Anthony A. Williams
Executive Director, Global Government Practice, Corporate Executive Board
Williams’ career spans public service, real estate development, and teaching. He has been mayor of the District of Columbia; CFO for the District; CEO of Ramsey Group, Inc.; and an executive in many federal, state, and municipal agencies. He also teaches at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
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Judy Woodruff
Co-Anchor and Senior Correspondent, The PBS NewsHour
Ms. Woodruff is a nationally known broadcast journalist. She has been CNN’s prime anchor and senior correspondent, chief Washington correspondent for the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, anchor of Frontline, and NBC’s White House correspondent.
…married to Wall Street Journal executive Washington editor Al Hunt. Son: Jeffrey Woodruff Hunt (b. 1981 with spina bifida); Son: Benjamin Hunt (b. circa 1986); Daughter: Lauren Ann (adopted, b. circa 1988).
-Albert R Hunt Jr 3501 36th St NW; Washington, DC 20016-3149 (202) 244-3025 [65+ / Jeffrey W Hunt, Benjamin Hunt]
-3 jobs (DC): http://www.whitepages.com/search/FindPerson?firstname_begins_with=1&firstname=Judy+&name=Woodruff&where=DC
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Life Trustees
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Joan T. Bok
(far left)
Chairman Emeritus
New England Electric System
New England Electric System
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Warren E. Buffett
Chairman of the Board
Berkshire Hathaway, Inc.
Berkshire Hathaway, Inc.
Augusta National Golf Club – member; Berkshire Hathaway Inc. – chairman & CEO; Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – trustee & major donor; Clinton Global Initiative – member; Forbes billionaires list – ranked # 3 in 2010; Grinnell College – trustee; I.O.U.S.A. – interviewed in film; Nuclear Threat Initiative – adviser; Nuclear Tipping Point – underwriter; Urban Institute – life trustee; Washington Post Co. – director. “Past”: Barack Obama fund-raising dinner, 7/2/2008 – headliner; Barack Obama fund-raising roundtable, 7/2/2008 – headliner; Susan T. Buffett (deceased) – spouse; Coca-Cola Company – director; Obama-Biden economic advisory team – member; Women’s Conference 2008 – participant. “Personal relations”: Howard G. Buffett – son; Howard H. Buffett (deceased) – son; Peter Buffett – son; Susan A. Buffett – daughter; James E. Cayne – bridge partner; William H. Gates III – friend; Donald R. Keough – friend; Astrid Menks – spouse; Byron D. Trott – friend (and see other connections). …lives and/or works in Omaha, NE.
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James E. Burke (deceased)
Chairman Emeritus
Johnson & Johnson
Johnson & Johnson
James Burke was CEO and Chairman of the Board of Johnson & Johnson from 1976 to 1989. He is a member of the Trilateral Commission, as was former Illinois Governor James Thompson. Burke was a member of the network around mega-investor Warren Buffett, which included Philip Morris director John S. Reed; Katharine Graham, the late chairman of the Washington Post, and her son; Capital Cities/ABC Chairman Thomas S. Murphy; James D. Robinson, former chairman of American Express; and Laurence Tisch of CBS. [Read more, re: the Tylenol murders, etc.]
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Joseph A. Califano, Jr.
Chairman and President
The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University
The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University
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Marcia L. Carsey
The Carsey-Werner Company
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Carol Thompson Cole
President
Venture Philanthropy Partners
Venture Philanthropy Partners
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William T. Coleman, Jr.
O’Melveny & Myers
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John M. Deutch
Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
former Deputy Secretary of Defense, and former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
former Deputy Secretary of Defense, and former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
Cheniere Energy, Inc. – director; Cummins Inc. – director; Massachusetts Institute of Technology – professor; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston – trustee; National Petroleum Council – member; Raytheon Company – director; Resources for the Future – director; Sidwell Friends School – graduate; Surface Logix – director; Urban Institute – life trustee. “Past”: 2008 Barack Obama presidential campaign – donor; 2008 Christopher Dodd presidential campaign – donor; 2008 Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign – donor; Leslie Aspin (deceased) – best man at wedding; Central Intelligence Agency – director; Citibank, N.A. – director; Citigroup Inc. – director; William J. Clinton – pardoned by (Jan. 2001); Resources for the Future – trustee; Schlumberger Limited – director; U.S. Department of Defense – deputy secretary; U.S. Department of Energy – under secretary.
Philip J. Deutch – son (and see other connections).
NGP Energy Technology Partners – managing partner. “Past”: Perseus, LLC – managing director. Spouse: Marne L. Levine.
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Anthony Downs
Senior Fellow
The Brookings Institution
The Brookings Institution
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George J. W. Goodman
Adam Smith’s Money World (Adam Smith – pseudonym).
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William Gorham
President Emeritus
The Urban Institute
President Emeritus
The Urban Institute
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Aileen C. Hernandez
Aileen C. Hernandez Associates
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Carla A. Hills
Hills & Company
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Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.
Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld
Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP – of counsel; American Friends of Bilderberg – director; Asbury Automotive Group, Inc. – director; Brookings Institution – honorary trustee; DePauw University – advisory trustee; Howard University – trustee; Kennedy Center – corporate fund board member; Lazard Freres & Co. LLC – senior managing director; Lazard Group LLC – director; Lazard Ltd. – director; LBJ Foundation – director; Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation – board member; NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund – director; Oak Bluffs (MA) – homeowner; Robert Trent Jones Golf Club (Gainesville, VA) – president emeritus; Urban Institute – life trustee. “Past”: 2008 Bilderberg conference – participant; 2008 Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign – fundraiser; American Express Company – director; Clear Channel Communications Inc. – director; DC Muckety: 2009 power couples – named; Economic Club of Washington – president; Iraq Study Group – member; J.C. Penney Co. – director; National Urban League – president; Rockefeller Center Club – member; Sara Lee Corporation – director; White House state dinner (11/24/2009) – invited guest; Xerox Corporation – director. “Personel”:
Vickee Jordan Adams – daughter; Antoinette Cook Bush – stepdaughter; Valerie B. Jarrett – great uncle; Ann Dibble Jordan – spouse (and see other connections). …lives and/or works in Washington, DC.
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Bayless A. Manning
<–w/ David Rockefeller.
Former President, Council on Foreign Relations and former Dean, Stanford Law School
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David O. Maxwell
Retired Chairman
Federal National Mortgage Association
Retired Chairman
Federal National Mortgage Association
* Hon. trustee at Brookings Inst.; former chairman and CEO of Fannie Mae.
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Arjay Miller (b. 1919)
Dean Emeritus
Graduate School of Business
Stanford University
Graduate School of Business
Stanford University
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Robert C. Miller
CEO
OnStor, Inc.
CEO
OnStor, Inc.
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Lois D. Rice
Guest Scholar
The Brookings Institution
The Brookings Institution
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William D. Ruckelshaus
Strategic Director, Madrona Investment Group, LLC
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Herbert E. Scarf
Sterling Professor of Economics
Yale University
Yale University
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Charles L. Schultze
Senior Fellow
The Brookings Institution
The Brookings Institution
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William W. Scranton
Former Ambassador to the United Nations and former Governor of Pennsylvania
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Louis A. Simpson
President and CEO, Capital Operations, GEICO
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Dick Thornburgh
K&L Gates LLP
Former Attorney General of the U.S. and former Governor of Pennsylvania
Former Attorney General of the U.S. and former Governor of Pennsylvania
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Mortimer B. Zuckerman
Chairman, Boston Properties
Chairman and Editor-in-Chief,
U.S. News & World Report
Chairman and Editor-in-Chief,
U.S. News & World Report
Boston Properties, Inc. – founder & chairman; Center for Communications – board member; Council on Foreign Relations – member; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute – trustee; Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California Berkeley – advisory board member; International Institute for Strategic Studies – member; MBZ 1996 Trust – charitable trust; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center – overseer; New York Daily News – publisher; New York Fund for Public Schools – vice chair; Partnership for New York City – director; The McLaughlin Group – panelist; Urban Institute – life trustee; U.S. News & World Report – chairman & editor-in-chief; WNET.org – life trustee. “Past”: Ascot Partners – investor; Aspen Institute – trustee; Atlantic Monthly – owner; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute – president; Hole in the Wall Gang Fund – director; New York University – trustee; Newsday – potential bidder; Marla Prather – spouse (and see other connections).
-Mortimer Zuckerman Drew Ln; East Hampton, NY (631) 329-1444
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Officers
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Robert D. Reischauer – President
Robert D. Reischauer, a former director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and nationally known expert on the federal budget, Medicare, and Social Security, began his tenure as the second president of the Urban Institute in February 2000.
He had been a senior fellow of economic studies at the Brookings Institution since 1995. From 1989 to 1995, he was the director of the nonpartisan CBO. Mr. Reischauer served as the Urban Institute’s senior vice president from 1981 to 1986. He was the CBO’s assistant director for human resources and its deputy director between 1977 and 1981.
Mr. Reischauer serves on the boards of several educational and nonprofit organizations. He was a member of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission from 2000-2009 and was its vice chair from 2001-2008.
He frequently contributes to the opinion pages of the nation’s major newspapers, comments on public policy developments on radio and television, and testifies before congressional committees.
Mr. Reischauer holds an A.B. in political science from Harvard University and an M.I.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University.
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John R. Rogers – Executive Vice President, Treasurer, and Chief Financial Officer
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Kathleen Courrier – Vice President for Communication
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Margery Austin Turner – Vice President for Research
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Everett I. Madden – Director, Administration, and Assistant Treasurer
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Angela M. Keenan – Director, Financial Planning and Analysis, and Assistant Treasurer
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Maida Schifter – Corporate Secretary
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Institute Fellows
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Robert Berenson
Robert Berenson, M.D., is an Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute. He is an expert in health care policy, particularly Medicare, with experience practicing medicine, serving in senior positions in two Administrations, and helping organize and manage a successful preferred provider organization. From 1998-2000, he was in charge of Medicare payment policy and private health plan contracting in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Previously, he served as an Assistant Director of the Carter White House Domestic Policy Staff and recently was a member of the Obama transition team. Effective July 2009, Dr. Berenson became a Commissioner of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) and was named Vice-Chair in 2010.
Dr. Berenson is a board-certified internist who practiced for twenty years, the last twelve in a Washington, D.C. group practice, and is Fellow of the American College of Physicians. He was co-author, with Walter Zelman, of The Managed Care Blues & How to Cure Them, and, with Rick Mayes, Medicare Payment Policy and the Shaping of U.S. Health Care. He is a graduate of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and on the faculty at the George Washington University Schools of Medicine and Public Health and the Fuqua School of Business at Duke.
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Terry Dunworth
Director, Justice Policy Center; Ph.D., Political Science, Michigan State University
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Olivia Golden
Olivia Golden, an Institute fellow at the Urban Institute, is an expert in child and family programs at the federal, state, and local levels with a special interest in the way services are delivered on the front lines.
Golden first served as an Institute fellow at the Institute from 2004 to early 2007, guiding its Assessing the New Federalism project, which tracked the federal government’s transfer of authority for health and social welfare programs to states. She later shepherded the project’s transformation into a research unit focusing on low-income working families.
During 2007, she oversaw the management of all state government agencies as Eliot Spitzer’s director of state operations in his first year as New York’s governor. She returned to the Urban Institute as a senior fellow in January 2008.
From 2001 to 2004, she was director of the Child and Family Services Agency of the District of Columbia, leading the agency out of federal court receivership. From 1993 to 2001, she served in two presidentially appointed positions within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, first as commissioner for children, youth, and families and then as assistant secretary for children and families. In these roles, she was responsible for over 60 programs, including Head Start, Early Head Start, child care, and child abuse and neglect.
She was also director of programs and policy at the Children’s Defense Fund (1991–1993), a lecturer in public policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government at (1987–1991), and budget director of Massachusetts’s Executive Office of Human Services (1983–1985). Her book, Poor Children and Welfare Reform (1992), draws lessons from welfare programs around the country that tried to make a difference to families by serving two generations, both parent and child.
Golden holds a doctorate and a master’s degree in public policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, where she earned a B.A. in philosophy and government.
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Harry J. Holzer
Harry J. Holzer is a Professor of Public Policy at Georgetown University and a Visiting Fellow at the Urban Institute in Washington DC. He is a former Chief Economist for the U.S. Department of Labor and a former Professor of Economics at Michigan State University. He received his A.B. from Harvard in 1978 and his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard in 1983. He is a Senior Affiliate of the National Poverty Center at the University of Michigan, a Research Affiliate of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a National Fellow of the Program on Inequality and Social Policy at Harvard University, and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.
Holzer’s research has focused primarily on the labor market problems of low-wage workers and other disadvantaged groups. His books include The Black Youth Employment Crisis (coedited with Richard Freeman, University of Chicago Press, 1986); What Employers Want: Job Prospects for Less-Educated Workers (Russell Sage Foundation, 1996); Employers and Welfare Recipients: The Effects of Welfare Reform in the Workplace (with Michael Stoll, Public Policy Institute of California, 2001); Moving Up or Moving On: Who Advances in the Low-Wage Labor Market? (with Fredrik Andersson and Julia Lane, Russell Sage Foundation, 2005); Reconnecting Disadvantaged Young Men (with Peter Edelman and Paul Offner, Urban Institute Press, 2006); and Reshaping the American Workforce for a Changing Economy (edited with Demetra Nightingale, Urban Institute Press, 2007).
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Robert Lerman
Dr. Robert Lerman, a leading expert on how education, employment, and family structure work together to affect economic well-being, is the Urban Institute’s first Institute fellow in labor and social policy. He was director of the Institute’s Labor and Social Policy Center from 1995 to 2003.
Dr. Lerman was one of the first scholars to examine the factors leading to unwed fatherhood and the effects of early unwed fatherhood on earnings. His work on youth apprenticeships in the late 1980s encouraged the creation of national school-to-work programs. Dr. Lerman’s current research focuses on interactions between job and marital stability, the effects of marriage promotion programs, and youth transitions from school to career.
The author of more than 150 articles, monographs, reports, reviews, and conference papers, Dr. Lerman has held dual appointments with the Urban Institute and the economics department at American University since 1995. He chaired the American University department from 1989 to 1995 and continues to be a professor of economics there. Dr. Lerman has served on a variety of panels and commissions, including the National Academy of Sciences panel looking at the nation’s postsecondary education and training system for the workplace and the board of the National Fatherhood Initiative. He has testified before congressional committees on such topics as youth apprenticeship, child support policies, and the information technology labor market.
Dr. Lerman earned his doctorate in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He taught at the University of Pittsburgh (1969-1971) and Brandeis University (1980-1989), where he also served as research director in the Heller School of Social Welfare’s Center for Human Resources. He conducted research on social security and housing policy as research associate at the Brookdale Institute of Gerontology in Jerusalem, Israel (1974-1976). His public policy experience includes positions as staff economist with Congress’ Joint Economic Committee (1972-1974) and special assistant for youth and welfare policy at the U.S. Department of Labor (1977-1980).
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Rudolph Penner
Rudolph G. Penner is an Institute fellow at the Urban Institute and holds the Arjay and Frances Miller Chair in Public Policy. Previously, he was a managing director of the Barents Group, a KPMG Company. He was director of the Congressional Budget Office from 1983 to 1987. From 1977 to 1983, he was a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Previous posts in government include assistant director for economic policy at the Office of Management and Budget, deputy assistant secretary for economic affairs at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and senior staff economist at the Council of Economic Advisors. Before 1975, Dr. Penner was a professor of economics at the University of Rochester.
He is past president of the National Economists Club and, in 1989, he was elected to the Board of Directors of NABE. In 2003, he received the Jesse Burkhead Award for the best article published in Public Budgeting and Finance in 2002.
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Margaret Simms
Margaret C. Simms is an Institute fellow at the Urban Institute and director of the Institute’s Low-Income Working Families project, a research initiative exploring challenges faced by 9 million families and their 19 million children.
A nationally recognized expert on the economic well-being of African Americans, Simms spent 21 years with the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies in several leadership positions. Most recently, she was appointed vice president for governance and economic analysis in 2005 and served as interim president in 2006. She began working at the Joint Center, one of the nation’s premier think tanks dealing with public-policy issues of concern to African Americans and other communities of color, in 1986 as deputy director of research.
Simms, who earned a master’s degree and doctorate in economics at Stanford University, was a senior research associate at the Urban Institute from 1979 to 1986 and directed the Institute’s Minorities and Social Policy Program from 1981 to 1986.
She was a faculty member at Atlanta University from 1972 to 1981, teaching first in the School of Business Administration and then serving as chair of the economics department. She also taught at Clark College (Atlanta) and the University of California at Santa Cruz. In 1977 and 1978, she was a Brookings economic policy fellow at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Simms has also edited many books and monographs, including Job Creation Prospects and Strategies (with Wilhelmina Leigh), Economic Perspectives on Affirmative Action, and Slipping Through the Cracks: The Status of Black Women (with Julianne Malveaux). She was editor of the Review of Black Political Economy from 1983 to 1988 and board chair of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research from 1993 to 1998. She served as president of the National Academy of Social Insurance from 2007 to 2009. She is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and recently served on the National Research Council Committee on the Fiscal Future of the United States. The National Economic Association presented her with the Samuel Z. Westerfield Award in 2008 and Carleton College awarded her an honorary doctor of laws degree in 2010.
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C. Eugene Steuerle
Eugene Steuerle is Richard B. Fisher chair and Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute, and a columnist under the title The Government We Deserve. Among past positions, he has served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Analysis (1987-1989), President of the National Tax Association (2001-2002), chair of the 1999 Technical Panel advising Social Security on its methods and assumptions, Economic Coordinator and original organizer of the 1984 Treasury study that led to the Tax Reform Act of 1986, President of the National Economists Club Educational Foundation, Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, Federal Executive Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a columnist for the Financial Times.
Dr. Steuerle is the author, co-author or co-editor of fifteen books and close to one thousand articles, briefs, and Congressional testimonies. Books include Contemporary U.S. Tax Policy (2nd edition), Retooling Social Security for the 21st Century, and Nonprofits and Government. He serves on advisory panels or boards for the Congressional Budget Office, the Government Accountability Office, the Joint Committee on Taxation, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, the Independent Sector, the Aspen Institute Initiative on Financial Security, the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, and the Partnership for America’s Economic Success.
Among other accolades, former top Treasury and White House officials wrote that 1986 tax reform “would not have moved forward without [his] early leadership,” and “few people have had greater impact on major changes in the tax law and the principal improvements in tax compliance and administration.” Among other honors, he received Outstanding Alumnus awards from his college and high school and the first Bruce Davie-Albert Davis Public Service Award from the National Tax Association in 2005.
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Lawrence Thompson
Lawrence H. Thompson has spent his entire career dealing with education, income security and health issues. As Principal Deputy Commissioner of the U.S. Social Security Administration (1993-1995) was responsible for both program policy development and operational management of the nation’s largest income security programs.
From 1989 through 1993, he was Assistant Comptroller General of the United States at the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) where he was responsible for oversight of all federal health, education, labor market and income security programs. He was Chief Economist of the GAO from 1983 to 1988. Prior experience included positions at the Department of Health and Human Services, the National Institute of Education, and the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity.
As an Institute fellow at the Urban Institute, Dr. Thompson helps to analyze the distributional effects of U.S. Social Security policies. He also serves as a consultant to the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and the International Labor Office. He has worked recently in Russia, China, Azerbaijan, the Philippines, Mongolia, and Vietnam. His analysis of the economic issues involved in public pension design, which was undertaken for the International Social Security Association, was published in 1998 by the Urban Institute Press as Older and Wiser: The Economics of Public Pensions. Dr. Thompson was a founding member of the U.S. National Academy of Social Insurance and served as its president from 1999 to 2003.
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Eric Toder
Dr. Eric J. Toder has spent his career working on taxation, fiscal policy, and retirement policy issues. Prior to joining the Urban Institute in 1998, he held a number of policy advisory positions in the U.S. government and overseas. As deputy assistant secretary for Tax Analysis in the U.S. Treasury Department (1993-96), he was responsible for both policy development and for overseeing analysis of the economic and budgetary effects of tax policy proposals. His previous service in the U.S. government included such positions as director of the Office of Research at the Internal Revenue Service (2001-2004), deputy assistant director for tax analysis at the Congressional Budget Office (1988-91 and 1984-88), and financial economist and deputy director of the Office of Tax Analysis at the U.S. Treasury Department (1976-84). Between 1988 and 1991, he was consultant to the New Zealand Treasury, where he assisted in the development of New Zealand’s tax reforms.
Prior to joining the U.S. government, Dr. Toder was assistant professor of economics at Tufts University and a senior research associate at Charles River Associates Inc. After leaving the U.S. Treasury Department, he was a visiting professor of economics at the University of Michigan and a consultant on tax policy issues in Ukraine, Russia, South Africa, and Bermuda.
At the Institute, Dr. Toder supervises studies on Social Security, other retirement issues, and tax issues in the Income and Benefits Center and the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center.
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Visiting Fellows – Summer/Fall 2010
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William T. Gormley
William T. Gormley served as interim dean at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute and is the codirector of the Center for Research on Children in the United States. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is a leading expert in government reform, public management, childcare, and education.
William T. Gormley served as interim dean at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute and is the codirector of the Center for Research on Children in the United States. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is a leading expert in government reform, public management, childcare, and education.
Dr. Gormley is the author of nine books and is planning a new book on children, preschool, and pre-K. As a visiting fellow at Urban Institute, he will be developing joint projects with the Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population.
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Shinwon Kyung
Housing and urban planning expert Shinwon Kyung will be a visiting fellow in the Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center from July through December. Dr. Kyung has a Ph.D. in urban and regional studies from the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. She will be researching international comparisons regarding distressed neighborhoods, effects on youth, and neighborhood revitalization.
Housing and urban planning expert Shinwon Kyung will be a visiting fellow in the Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center from July through December. Dr. Kyung has a Ph.D. in urban and regional studies from the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. She will be researching international comparisons regarding distressed neighborhoods, effects on youth, and neighborhood revitalization.
Dr. Kyung previously worked as a lecturer in comparative housing for the Center for Urban and Regional Studies at the University of Birmingham and as an associate research fellow at the Korea Housing Institute in South Korea.
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Yap Mui Teng
Yap Mui Teng will be joining the Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population as a visiting fellow. She is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore (NUS), where she works on demographic and family issues. She is also an associate at the Asia Research Institute, NUS.
Yap Mui Teng will be joining the Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population as a visiting fellow. She is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore (NUS), where she works on demographic and family issues. She is also an associate at the Asia Research Institute, NUS.
Dr. Yap has a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Hawaii. Previously, she worked for the Population Planning Unit of Singapore’s Ministry of Health and the Research and Evaluation Unit of the Singapore Family Planning and Population Board. Her current research interests are policy responses to low fertility in Singapore and elsewhere and policies on aging populations, migration, and poverty alleviation.
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Visiting Fellows – 2009
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Lawrence Lokken
International tax expert Lawrence Lokken will be a visiting fellow in our Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center in fall 2009. Mr. Lokken is the Hugh Culverhouse Eminent Scholar in Taxation at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. He also taught at New York University, Northwestern University, Duke University, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Georgia, as well as universities in the Netherlands, Germany, South Africa, and Poland.
International tax expert Lawrence Lokken will be a visiting fellow in our Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center in fall 2009. Mr. Lokken is the Hugh Culverhouse Eminent Scholar in Taxation at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. He also taught at New York University, Northwestern University, Duke University, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Georgia, as well as universities in the Netherlands, Germany, South Africa, and Poland.
Mr. Lokken is coauthor of Fundamentals of International Taxation, Federal Taxation of Employee Compensation, and Federal Taxation of Income, Estates & Gifts, now in its third edition. Mr. Lokken has served as editor-in-chief of the Tax Law Review and editor of the Florida Tax Review. He earned his Juris Doctorate from the University of Minnesota.
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Sandra J. Newman
Sandra J. Newman is Professor of Policy Studies at Johns Hopkins University and Director of the Center on Housing, Neighborhoods and Communities in its Institute for Policy Studies. She holds joint appointments in the Departments of Sociology and of Health Policy and Management (in the Bloomberg School of Public Health). She was a Fulbright Senior Fellow at the Australian National University and a Visiting Scholar in the research office of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, for which she received a Distinguished Service Award. Her research focuses on the role of housing in the lives of families, children, and disabled populations. Her most recent (2009 and 2008) articles appear in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management and the Journal of Urban Affairs. She is on the editorial boards of Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Housing Policy Debate and Cityscape.
Sandra J. Newman is Professor of Policy Studies at Johns Hopkins University and Director of the Center on Housing, Neighborhoods and Communities in its Institute for Policy Studies. She holds joint appointments in the Departments of Sociology and of Health Policy and Management (in the Bloomberg School of Public Health). She was a Fulbright Senior Fellow at the Australian National University and a Visiting Scholar in the research office of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, for which she received a Distinguished Service Award. Her research focuses on the role of housing in the lives of families, children, and disabled populations. Her most recent (2009 and 2008) articles appear in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management and the Journal of Urban Affairs. She is on the editorial boards of Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Housing Policy Debate and Cityscape.
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Kenneth Couch
Dr. Kenneth Couch, a leading expert on disadvantaged groups in the labor market, will be working with the Income and Benefits Policy Center and the Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population as a visiting fellow. Dr. Couch is an economics professor at the University of Connecticut, a visiting associate professor at Yale University, a consultant with the Connecticut State Department of Labor’s Office of Research, and coeditor of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. He also has taught Syracuse University and received his Ph.D. in labor economics from the University of Wisconsin.
Dr. Kenneth Couch, a leading expert on disadvantaged groups in the labor market, will be working with the Income and Benefits Policy Center and the Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population as a visiting fellow. Dr. Couch is an economics professor at the University of Connecticut, a visiting associate professor at Yale University, a consultant with the Connecticut State Department of Labor’s Office of Research, and coeditor of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. He also has taught Syracuse University and received his Ph.D. in labor economics from the University of Wisconsin.
Dr. Couch’s research focuses on displaced workers, economic mobility, and income inequality. He also studies racial and gender disparities in pay and employment and the effectiveness of the earned income tax credit, minimum wage policies, and employment training for welfare recipients.
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Brian Holland
Brian Holland has more than 20 years of economic and workforce development experience in local government agencies and the private sector. As an independent consultant, Mr. Holland guides clients through community, economic, workforce, and youth development and education issues. He provides technical assistance on data analysis, partnership building, policy research, program design and coordination, and grant writing. His clients include community colleges, hospital networks, trade associations, foundations, and nonprofits.
Brian Holland has more than 20 years of economic and workforce development experience in local government agencies and the private sector. As an independent consultant, Mr. Holland guides clients through community, economic, workforce, and youth development and education issues. He provides technical assistance on data analysis, partnership building, policy research, program design and coordination, and grant writing. His clients include community colleges, hospital networks, trade associations, foundations, and nonprofits.
Mr. Holland received his Masters in Public Administration and Masters in Urban Planning from Columbia University. He has served on the boards of directors of Jobs for Virginia Graduates and NYC Habitat for Humanity. Mr. Holland will be joining the Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population as a visiting fellow, and also plans to work with staff in the Metropolitan Housing and Communities Center.
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Affiliated Scholars
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Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy
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Evelyn Brody (Chicago-Kent College of Law)
Elizabeth Keating (Boston College, Carroll School of Management)
Alan Abramson (George Mason University)
Joseph Cordes (George Washington University) Video Interview
Francie Ostrower (University of Texas at Austin, LBJ School of Public Affairs)
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Health Policy Center
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Jack Hadley (George Mason University)
Sharon Long (University of Minnesota)
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Income Benefits Policy Center
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Ron Mincy (Columbia University School of Social Work)
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International Development and Governance Center
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George Peterson
Paul Smoke (NYU Wagner School)
Dennis Smith (NYU Wagner School)
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Labor and Human Services Policy Center
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Paul Jargowsky (University of Texas at Dallas)
Marti Burt
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Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center
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George Galster (Wayne State University) Video Interview
Claudia Coulton (Case Western Reserve University)
Derek Hyra (Virginia Tech)
Sandra Newman (Johns Hopkins University)
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Tax Policy Center
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Len Burman (Syracuse University Maxwell School) Video Interview
Daniel Halperin (Harvard Law School)
Rosanne Altshuler (Rutgers University)
Tracy Gordon (University of Maryland School of Public Policy)
