Brookings Papers on Economic Activity
BPEA Leadership
Current Editors
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Janice Eberly, James R. and Helen D. Russell Professor of Finance, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
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Jón Steinsson, Chancellor’s Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
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
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, William H. Abbott Distinguished Service Professor of International Business and Economics, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
Jason Furman, Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; former Chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers
Carol Graham, Interim Vice President and Director of Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution
Robert E. Hall, Robert and Carole McNeil Joint Hoover Senior Fellow and Professor of Economics, Stanford University; Chair of the Business Cycle Dating Committee
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