Economic Studies Leadership
Sheila Dennis
Senior Director of Development
- Economic Studies
Shannon Meraw
Senior Director of Communications and External Engagement
- Economic Studies
Melanie Rose
Managing Director
- Economic Studies
Our experts

Loren Adler
Fellow and Associate Director
- Brookings Schaeffer Initiative on Health Policy
@LorenAdler

Ben S. Bernanke
Distinguished Senior Fellow
- The Brookings Institution, Economic Studies
@BenBernanke

Matthew Fiedler
Joseph A. Pechman Senior Fellow
- Economic Studies, Brookings Schaeffer Initiative on Health Policy
@mattafiedler

Richard G. Frank
Senior Fellow
- Economic Studies,
Director
- Brookings Schaeffer Initiative on Health Policy

William G. Gale
The Arjay and Frances Fearing Miller Chair in Federal Economic Policy,
Senior Fellow
- Economic Studies,
Director
- Retirement Security Project,
Co-Director
- Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center
@WilliamGale2

Aaron Klein
Miriam K. Carliner Chair
- Economic Studies,
Senior Fellow
- Center on Regulation and Markets
@AaronDKlein

Michael Navarrete
Alice Rivlin Dissertation Fellow
- The Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy
@mnavarrete42

Sanjay Patnaik
Director
- Center on Regulation and Markets,
Bernard L. Schwartz Chair in Economic Policy Development,
Senior Fellow
- Economic Studies
@sanjay_patnaik

Wendell Primus
Visiting Fellow
- Brookings Schaeffer Initiative on Health Policy

Louise Sheiner
The Robert S. Kerr Senior Fellow
- Economic Studies,
Policy Director
- The Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy
@lsheiner

Tara Watson
Director
- Center for Economic Security and Opportunity,
David M. Rubenstein Fellow
- Economic Studies
@taraelizwatson

David Wessel
Director
- The Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy,
Senior Fellow
- Economic Studies
@davidmwessel
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- Alexander Conner, Senior Research Assistant, The Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy
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- Oliver Hall, Research Assistant, Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center
- Olivia Howard, Research Assistant, The Hamilton Project
- Simran Kalkat, Senior Research Assistant, Center for Economic Security and Opportunity
- Aidan Kane, Research Assistant, Center on Regulation and Markets
- Matt Kasman, Assistant Research Director, Center on Social Dynamics and Policy
- Isabel Leigh, Senior Research Assistant, The Hamilton Project
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