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Research & Updates
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March 2012
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Philanthropy’s Success Stories
Date
March 01, 2012
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
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March 2012
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Paul Brest, President, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Date
March 01, 2012
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Other Areas
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April 2012
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John Baez, Professor of Mathematics and Physics, University of California
Date
April 18, 2012
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Other Areas
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May 2012
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Cochrane Collaboration Representatives
Date
May 08, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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May 2012
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Matt Bannick, Paula Goldman, Tie Kim, Bill Barmeier, Will Fitzpatrick, and Todor Tashev, Omidyar Network
Date
May 16, 2012
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Other Areas
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May 2012
Title
Michael MacCracken, Chief Scientist, Climate Institute
Date
May 18, 2012
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Other Areas
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May 2012
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Philip Rasch, Chief Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Date
May 22, 2012
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Other Areas
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May 2012
Title
Steven Goodman, Associate Dean of Clinical and Translational Medicine at Stanford University
Date
May 31, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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June 2012
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Jane Long, Associate Director at Large, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Date
June 01, 2012
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Other Areas
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June 2012
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Donald Green, Professor of Political Science, Columbia University
Date
June 08, 2012
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Other Areas
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June 2012
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John Ioannidis, Professor of Medicine and of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University
Date
June 11, 2012
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Other Areas
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July 2012
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Michael Ditmore, Executive Director, Novim
Date
July 01, 2012
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Other Areas
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July 2012
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Kay Dickersin, Director of the U.S. Cochrane Center and the Eyes and Vision Review Group, U.S. Satellite
Date
July 09, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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July 2012
Title
William Easterly, Professor of Economics, New York University
Date
July 13, 2012
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Other Areas
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August 2012
Title
Paul Garner, Coordinating Editor of the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Review Group
Date
August 13, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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August 2012
Title
David Tovey, Editor-in-Chief of the Cochrane Collaboration
Date
August 14, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
August 2012
Title
Jimmy Volmink, Director of the South African Cochrane Center
Date
August 17, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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August 2012
Title
Sue Kinn, Team Leader and Research Manager at the Department for International Development (DFID)
Date
August 21, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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August 2012
Title
Michael Rosenfeld, Professor, Stanford University
Date
August 21, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
August 2012
Title
Sally Green, Co-Director of the Australasian Cochrane Center
Date
August 23, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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September 2012
Title
Martin Burton, Director of the UK Cochrane Center
Date
September 06, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
September 2012
Title
Kay Dickersin, Director of the U.S. Cochrane Center and the Eyes and Vision Review Group, U.S. Satellite
Date
September 14, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
November 2012
Title
Andy Ko, Campaign Manager, and Jamie Wood, Program Associate, Campaign for a New Drug Policy
Date
November 19, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Content Type
April 2013
Title
Seasonal Migration within Low-Income Countries
Date
April 01, 2013
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
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April 2013
Title
Gunther Eysenbach, Project Initiator, Webcite
Date
April 10, 2013
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Other Areas
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April 2013
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“Dylan Matthews, Staff Reporter, Wonkblog at the Washington Post”
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April 10, 2013
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April 2013
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Kirsten Zickfeld, Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University
Date
April 17, 2013
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Other Areas
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April 2013
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Klaus Keller, Associate Professor of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University
Date
April 18, 2013
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Other Areas
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April 2013
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Elmar Kriegler, Senior Scientist, The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Date
April 18, 2013
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Other Areas
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April 2013
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Tom Steinbach and Other Staff, The Hewlett Foundation
Date
April 19, 2013
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Other Areas
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May 2013
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Amanda Glassman, Director of Global Health Policy and Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Date
May 01, 2013
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
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May 2013
Title
Jonathan Cohn, Dana Goldstein, Chris Hughes, Richard Kim, Mike Konczal, Dylan Matthews, Dayo Olopade, Andrew Revkin, Reihan Salam and Michael Waldman
Date
May 02, 2013
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
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May 2013
Title
Frank Baumgartner, Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Date
May 03, 2013
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Other Areas
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May 2013
May 2013
May 2013
Title
Andy Parker, Research Fellow, Belfer Center, Harvard University
Date
May 20, 2013
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Other Areas
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May 2013
Title
Strobe Talbott, President and Kimberly Churches, Vice President for Development, The Brookings Institution
Date
May 21, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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May 2013
Title
Mark Schmitt, Senior Fellow, The Roosevelt Institute
Date
May 22, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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May 2013
Title
Gara LaMarche, Senior Fellow, Wagner School of Public Service, New York University
Date
May 22, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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June 2013
Title
Steven Teles, Associate Professor of Political Science, John Hopkins University
Date
June 12, 2013
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
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June 2013
Title
Allan Steinhardt, Former Program Manager and Chief Scientist, DARPA
Date
June 13, 2013
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Other Areas
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June 2013
Title
Adele Morris, Policy Director for the Brookings Climate and Energy Economics Project
Date
June 24, 2013
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Other Areas
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June 2013
Title
Justin Wolfers, Professor of Economics and Public Policy, University of Michigan; Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
Date
June 25, 2013
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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June 2013
Title
Neil Ruiz, Senior Policy Analyst and Associate Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program
Date
June 28, 2013
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
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July 2013
Title
Mark Kleiman, Professor of Public Policy, UCLA School of Public Affairs
Date
July 02, 2013
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Content Type
July 2013
Title
Sue Chinn, Campaign Manager, and Marielena Hincapié, Co-Founder, Alliance for Citizenship
Date
July 11, 2013
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Content Type
July 2013
Title
Lisa Walsh, Partner and Chris Addy, Manager, The Bridgespan Group
Date
July 22, 2013
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Other Areas
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July 2013
Title
Armond Cohen, Co-Founder and Executive Director
Date
July 23, 2013
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Other Areas
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July 2013
July 2013
Title
Ken Zimmerman, Director of US Programs, and Leonard Noisette, Director of the Justice Fund for US Programs, Open Society Foundations
Date
July 26, 2013
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Content Type
August 2013
Title
Matt Baker, Environment Program Officer, The Hewlett Foundation
Date
August 08, 2013
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Other Areas
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August 2013
Title
Dean Baker, Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research
Date
August 08, 2013
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Other Areas
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August 2013
Title
Sally O’Brien, Senior Vice President of Philanthropic Partnerships, Pew Charitable Trusts
Date
August 14, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Content Type
August 2013
Title
Inimai M. Chettiar, Director, Justice Program and Jennifer Weiss-Wolf, Deputy Director, Development, Brennan Center for Justice,
Date
August 22, 2013
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
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August 2013
Title
Adam Gelb, Director, Public Safety Performance Project and Nicole Surber, Director, Philanthropic Partnerships, The Pew Charitable Trusts
Date
August 23, 2013
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Content Type
August 2013
Title
Matt Stoller, Former Fellow, Roosevelt Institute
Date
August 27, 2013
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Other Areas
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August 2013
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Seema Gajwani, Program Officer for Criminal Justice, Public Welfare Foundation
Date
August 28, 2013
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Content Type
September 2013
Title
John Fawcett, Global Legislative Director, RESULTS
Date
September 03, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Content Type
September 2013
Title
Ben Leo, Senior Fellow, Director of Rethinking US Foreign Assistance Program
Date
September 03, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Content Type
September 2013
Title
Mark Steinmeyer, Senior Program Officer, Smith Richardson Foundation
Date
September 10, 2013
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Content Type
September 2013
Title
Darren Kew, Associate Professor, Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance; McCormack Graduate School, University of Massachusetts Boston
Date
September 13, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
September 2013
Title
Angela Hawken, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Pepperdine University
Date
September 16, 2013
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Content Type
September 2013
Title
Joshua Reichert, Executive Vice President and Beth Murdock, Associate, The Pew Charitable Trusts
Date
September 24, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Content Type
September 2013
Title
Susan Urahn, Executive Vice President and Brian Hill, Senior Associate, The Pew Charitable Trusts
Date
September 25, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Content Type
October 2013
Title
Sally Satel, MD, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute; Lecturer in Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine
Date
October 10, 2013
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Other Areas
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October 2013
Title
Julie Samuels, Senior Staff Attorney, Peter Eckersley, Technology Projects Director, Daniel Nazer, Staff Attorney, and Adi Kamdar, Activist
Date
October 15, 2013
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Other Areas
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October 2013
Title
Aaron Goldzimer, Student, Yale Law School
Date
October 19, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Content Type
October 2013
Title
Gara LaMarche, President, Democracy Alliance; former President and CEO, Atlantic Philanthropies
Date
October 31, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Content Type
November 2013
Title
The Track Record of Policy-Oriented Philanthropy
Date
November 06, 2013
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
Content Type
November 2013
Title
Mark Kleiman, Professor of Public Policy, UCLA School of Public Affairs
Date
November 12, 2013
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Content Type
November 2013
Title
Michael Clemens, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Date
November 13, 2013
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Content Type
November 2013
Title
Nancy Birdsall, President, and Todd Moss, Chief Operating Officer and Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Date
November 13, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
November 2013
November 2013
Title
Attendance of Selective Colleges amongst High-Performing, Low-Income Students
Date
November 14, 2013
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Other Areas
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November 2013
Title
Pew Charitable Trusts’ Government Performance Project
Date
November 14, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Content Type
November 2013
Title
Andy Ko, Campaign Manager, Campaign for a New Drug Policy
Date
November 20, 2013
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Content Type
November 2013
Title
Steve Riskin, Senior Program Officer, United States Institute of Peace
Date
November 26, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
December 2013
Title
Larry Kramer, President and Daniel Stid, Senior Fellow
Date
December 06, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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December 2013
Title
Clive Hamilton, Professor of Public Ethics, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Charles Sturt University and the University of Melbourne
Date
December 16, 2013
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Other Areas
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January 2014
Title
Rob Reich, Associate Professor of Political Science, Stanford University; Board member, GiveWell
Date
January 09, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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January 2014
Title
Robin Hanson, Associate Professor of Economics, George Mason University
Date
January 15, 2014
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Other Areas
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January 2014
Title
Jay Neal, Executive Director of Georgia’s Office of Transition, Support and Re-entry; former Representative in Georgia State House of Representatives
Date
January 15, 2014
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Content Type
January 2014
Title
Grant Tennille, Executive Director of the Arkansas Economic Development Commission, former Deputy Chief of Staff to Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe
Date
January 17, 2014
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Content Type
January 2014
Title
Mike Konczal, Fellow, Roosevelt Institute
Date
January 23, 2014
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Content Type
February 2014
Title
Joseph Gagnon, Senior Fellow; former Associate Director at the Division of International Finance and Senior Economist, US Federal Reserve Board
Date
February 04, 2014
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Content Type
February 2014
Title
Philip Tetlock, Professor of Psychology and Management, University of Pennsylvania; Co-leader of the Good Judgment Project
Date
February 12, 2014
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Other Areas
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February 2014
Title
Josh Bivens, Research and Policy Director, Economic Policy Institute
Date
February 26, 2014
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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February 2014
Title
Milan Vaishnav, Associate, South Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Date
February 27, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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March 2014
Title
Daniel Fagnant, Ph.D. candidate in Transportation Engineering, UT Austin; Assistant Professor at University of Utah (Anticipated August 2014)
Date
March 18, 2014
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Other Areas
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March 2014
Title
Patrick Lucey, Policy Program Associate, and Danielle Kehl, Policy Analyst, New America Foundation
Date
March 19, 2014
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Other Areas
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March 2014
Title
Richard England, Visiting Fellow, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy; Professor of Economics and Natural Resources, University of New Hampshire
Date
March 22, 2014
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Other Areas
Content Type
March 2014
Title
Alan D. Viard, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
Date
March 25, 2014
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Other Areas
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March 2014
Title
Bentley Allan, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Date
March 26, 2014
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Content Type
March 2014
Title
Bill Gale, Senior Fellow, Economic Studies Program, Brookings Institution; Co-Director, Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center
Date
March 28, 2014
Focus Area
Other Areas
Content Type
April 2014
Title
Kathleen Newland, Co-Founder, Migration Policy Institute
Date
April 02, 2014
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Content Type
April 2014
Title
Robert Greenstein, President, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Date
April 03, 2014
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Content Type
April 2014
Title
Robert Bloomfield, Professor of Management and Accounting, Cornell University
Date
April 04, 2014
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Content Type
April 2014
Title
Bryant Walker Smith, Fellow, the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford (CARS); Fellow, the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School; Lecturer, Stanford Law School
Date
April 11, 2014
Focus Area
Other Areas
Content Type
April 2014
Title
Laurence Ball, Professor of Economics, Johns Hopkins University
Date
April 17, 2014
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Content Type
April 2014