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Ben McAdams

Nonresident Senior Fellow – Brookings Metro

Former U.S. Congressman Ben McAdams is the founder and CEO of Putting Assets to Work L3C, which supports jurisdictions working to create revenue and other public benefits from government-owned real estate through public-private partnerships. He leads the Putting Public Assets to Work Incubator, working with states, cities, and counties across the U.S. to create value from public real estate assets.  

From 2009 through 2020, McAdams served as a member of the United States Congress, a Utah state senator, and mayor of Salt Lake County, where he represented 1.1 million constituents and balanced a budget of $1.2 billion. In his public service, McAdams brought Republicans and Democrats together to find solutions to address homelessness and environmental sustainability, improve education and health outcomes, and promote evidence-based decisionmaking at all levels of government using innovations, including the first social impact bonds to achieve systems change and measurable outcomes. 

Prior to elected office, McAdams taught securities regulation at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law and was an attorney with Davis Polk in New York and Dorsey & Whitney in Salt Lake City, where he specialized in public and private securities and debt transactions for U.S. and international issuers. 

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