FORA.tv Speaker - Lael Brainard

Vice President and Director, Global Economy and Development Program The Brookings Institution Lael Brainard is Vice President and Director of the Poverty and Global Economy Initiative at The Brookings Institution, where she holds the New Century Chair in International Economics. Dr. Brainard served as Deputy Assistant to the President for International Economics, Deputy National Economic Adviser and Chair of the Deputy Secretaries Committee on International Economics during the Clinton Administration. As the U.S. "Sherpa" to the G7/G8, she worked to shape the 2000 G8 Development Summit, which included developing country leaders for the first time and laid the foundations for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and malaria. Before coming to Washington, Dr. Brainard served as Associate Professor of Applied Economics at MIT Sloan School, where her publications made important contributions to debates on the effect of offshore investment on trade and jobs, strategic trade policy, and structural and cyclical unemployment in the U.S. economy. Previously, she worked at McKinsey and Company advising clients on strategic challenges. She is the recipient of a White House Fellowship and a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Board of Wesleyan University. Dr. Brainard received a bachelors degree with highest honors from Wesleyan University, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in economics from Harvard University, where she was a National Science Foundation Fellow. She is a member of the Aspen Strategy Group.