Melissa S. Kearney is the Neil Moskowitz Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland. She is also Director of the Aspen Economic Strategy Group; a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); a non-resident Senior Fellow at Brookings; a scholar affiliate and member of the board of the Notre Dame Wilson-Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO); and a scholar affiliate of the MIT Abdul Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). She is a senior editor of the Future of Children, an editorial board member of the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy and Journal of Economic Literature, and a former co-editor of the Journal of Human Resources. She serves on the Board of Governors of the Smith Richardson Foundation. Kearney served as Director of the Hamilton Project at Brookings from 2013-2015 and as co-chair of the JPAL State and Local Innovation Initiative from 2015-2018.
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Aspen Economic Strategy Group welcomes seven new members, replacing outgoing Biden-Harris .
The Aspen InstituteFebruary 2, 2021 GMT
Washington, DC, Feb. 02, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) The Aspen Economic Strategy Group (AESG) today announces seven new members to the sixty-five member, invitation-only group made up of distinguished leaders and thinkers who share the goal of promoting evidence-based solutions to the greatest challenges confronting the American economy. Established in 2017, the AESG is co-chaired by Henry M. Paulson, Jr., former secretary of the U.S. Treasury and chairman of Goldman Sachs, and Erskine Bowles, former White House chief of staff to President Bill Clinton and president of the University of North Carolina system.