Brookings Institution

Washington, DC

One of the most influential policy institutes in America, the Brookings Institution analyzes current and emerging policy issues in the U.S. and abroad. Mr. Schwartz supports the Brookings Institution through a number of events aimed at promoting a vibrant discourse on American competitiveness.

Bernard L. Schwartz Forum on U.S. Competitiveness

The Bernard L. Schwartz Forum on U.S. Competitiveness focuses on critical economic competitiveness challenges and opportunities, including investments in research and development, innovation, and education, the rise of emerging economies and the future of the U.S. manufacturing industry. The forum gathers business executives and entrepreneurs, policy-makers, labor leaders and academics to explore working solutions to the challenge of maintaining the leading competitiveness of the U.S. economy.

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Chair in Economic Policy Development

The Bernard L. Schwartz Chair in Economic Policy Development is focused on forward-looking national economic priorities, among them, job creation, U.S. economic competitiveness and productivity.

The current Chair is Martin Neil Baily, senior fellow and director of the Initiative on Business and Public Policy in the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution.

In this position, Mr. Baily addresses the multifaceted dimensions of globalization and competitiveness, and conducts and publishes research, organizes conferences, workshops, briefings and forums on these issues for policy-makers and the general public.
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The first scholar to hold the Schwartz chair was Ms. Lael Brainard, a Brookings senior fellow from 2001 to 2009, and served as the vice president and director of the Global Economy and Development program from June 2006 to March 16, 2009. Brainard left Brookings for the U.S. Treasury Department, to serve as under secretary of the Treasury for international affairs.
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