Brookings Institution
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What we aim to solve
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Governance Studies
The Governance Studies program at Brookings is dedicated to analyzing policy issues, political institutions and processes, and contemporary governance challenges. Our scholarship identifies areas in need of reform and proposes specific solutions with the goals of: improving the performance of the national government; informing debate; and providing policymakers with expert analysis and ideas to ensure better institutional governance.
Metropolitan Policy Program
Our mission is to deliver research and solutions that help metropolitan leaders build an advanced economy that works for all.
Foreign Policy
America’s conduct of foreign policy demands that, as a nation, we address the dual realities of new threats and opportunities in a world that is more connected and interdependent, where technology has eclipsed transitional understandings of borders and security.
Global Economy and Development
Founded in 2006, the Global Economy and Development program at Brookings aims to shape the policy debate on how to improve global economic cooperation and fight global poverty and sources of social stress. With a long-term vision of strong, sustainable, and balanced growth for a prosperous world, the program undertakes high-quality research, identifies target audiences and policy opportunities, and shares its findings to inform new policy solutions.
Economic Studies
The Brookings Economic Studies program analyzes current and emerging economic issues facing the United States and the world, focusing on ideas to achieve broad-based economic growth, a strong labor market, sound fiscal and monetary policy, and economic opportunity and social mobility. The research aims to increase understanding of how the economy works and what can be done to make it work better.
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Brookings Institution
Board of directorsas of 05/01/2018
John L. Thornton
Tsinghua University
Jeffrey Greenberg
Elizabeth Bailey
Shirley Jackson
Samuel Hellman
Arthur Culvahouse
Judith Rodin
John Thornton
Richard Fisher
William Haseltine
Lawrence Summers
Leonard Schaeffer
Bart Friedman
Mario Morino
William Owens
Thomas Donilon
Michael Jordan
Cyrus Freidheim
John Porter
Teresa Heinz
Kenneth Duberstein
Lawrence Fish
Joel Hyatt
David Friend
Stephen Wolf
Ann Fudge
Daniel Yergin
Alan Dachs
D'Andrea Laura
Brian Greenspun
James Cicconi
Vincent Trosino
Mario Draghi
Steven Rattner
Beatrice Welters
Robert Day
Frank Pearl
Kenneth Dam
Ann Jordan
Zoë Baird
Haim Saban
Marie Knowles
Alan Batkin
David Rubenstein