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Senior Fellow

Rebecca M. Blank

Rebecca M. Blank

Senior Fellow, Economic Studies

Rebecca M. Blank is the Robert S. Kerr Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Prior to coming to Brookings, she was dean of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan and co-director of the National Poverty Center.



Expertise

Social and economic policy
                                                                                                                                    

Background

Past Positions
Henry Carter Adams Collegiate Professor of Public Policy, Professor of Economics, Co-Director of the National Poverty Center, and Dean of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan; Member, Council of Economic Advisers; Professor of Economics and Director of the Joint Center for Poverty Research, Northwestern University

Expert Awards
Fellow, Society of Labor Economists (2006); Fellow, American Academy of Arts of Sciences (2005); Lifetime National Associate, National Academies of Sciences (2004)

Education

Ph.D. in Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1983); B.S. in Economics, Summa Cum Laude, University of Minnesota (1976)

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Rebecca Blank Named Robert V. Kerr Senior Fellow in Economic Studies

Rebecca M. Blank is joining the Brookings Institution as the Robert V. Kerr senior fellow, Brookings President Strobe Talbott announced. Blank is a former member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors and former dean of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan.

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