BPEA Leadership

Current Editors

Janice Eberly, James R. and Helen D. Russell Professor of Finance, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University 

Jón Steinsson, Chancellor’s Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley

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Advisory Council

Katharine Abraham, Professor of Economics and Survey Methodology, University of Maryland

George Akerlof, University Professor, Georgetown University, McCourt School of Public Policy; joint recipient of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics

Ben Bernanke, Distinguished Fellow in Residence, The Brookings Institution; former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Open Market Committee

William Brainard, Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics Emeritus, Yale University; former Editor of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity

Steven J. Davis, Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution

Jason Furman, Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; former Chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers

Robert E. Hall, Robert and Carole McNeil Joint Hoover Senior Fellow and Professor of Economics, Stanford University; Chair of the Business Cycle Dating Committee

Ben Harris, Vice President and Director of Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution

Peter Blair Henry, Senior Fellow of Hoover Institution and Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), Stanford University

Caroline Hoxby, Scott and Donya Bommer Professor in Economics, Stanford University

Gregory Mankiw, Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics, Harvard University; former Chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers; former Editor of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity

Maurice Obstfeld, Class of 1958 Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley; Nonresident Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics; former Chief Economist, International Monetary Fund

George Perry, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution; co-founder and former Editor of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity

David Romer, Herman Royer Professor of Political Economy, University of California, Berkeley; former Editor of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity

Louise Sheiner, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution

James Stock, Vice Provost for Climate and Sustainability and Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University; former Editor of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity

Justin Wolfers, Professor of Economics and Public Policy, University of Michigan; former Editor of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity

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Past Editors

James Stock (2015-23), Vice Provost for Climate and Sustainability and Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University

Justin Wolfers (2009–15), Professor of Public Policy; Professor of Economics, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan

David Romer (2009–15), Herman Royer Professor of Political Economy, University of California, Berkeley

N. Gregory Mankiw (2008), Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics, Harvard University

Lawrence Summers (2008), Charles W. Eliot University Professor, President Emeritus, Harvard University

Douglas Elmendorf (2007–8), Dean of Faculty, Harvard Kennedy School; Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy

William Gale (2007), The Arjay and Frances Fearing Miller Chair in Federal Economic Policy; Senior Fellow, Economic Studies, the Brookings Institution; Director, Retirement Security Project; Co-Director, Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center

Peter Reiss (1993–7), Professor in the Graduate School of Business; Professor, by courtesy, of Economics

Martin Baily (1987–98) Bernard L. Schwartz Chair in Economic Policy Development; Senior Fellow, Economic Studies, Center on Regulation and Markets, the Brookings Institution

Clifford Winston (1987–98) Searle Freedom Trust Senior Fellow, Economic Studies, the Brookings Institution

William Brainard (1980–2007), Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics Emeritus, Yale University

George Perry (1970–2007), Senior Fellow, Economic Studies, the Brookings Institution

Arthur Okun (1970–9), Former Fellow, Economic Studies, the Brookings Institution