Biography
Lael Brainard is Vice President and Founding Director of the Brookings Global Economy and Development Program at Brookings and holds the Bernard L. Schwartz Chair in International Economics.
Brainard served as Deputy National Economic Adviser and Chair of the Deputy Secretaries Committee on International Economics during the Clinton Administration. As Deputy Director of the National Economic Council, she helped build a new White House organization to address global economic challenges such as the Asian financial crisis and China’s WTO entry. As the US Sherpa to the G8, she helped shape the 2000 G8 Development Summit that for the first time included leaders of the poorest nations and laid the foundations for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria. Previously, Brainard served as Associate Professor of Applied Economics at MIT Sloan School. Brainard has also worked at McKinsey & Co. advising corporate clients on strategic challenges and on microfinance in West Africa. Brainard received masters and doctoral degrees in Economics from Harvard University, where she was a National Science Foundation Fellow. She graduated with highest honors from Wesleyan University. She is the recipient of a White House Fellowship and a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship, a Marshall Scholar elect, and a member of the Wesleyan University Board, Council on Foreign Relations, and Aspen Strategy Group. Brainard is co-editor of Offshoring White Collar Work (Brookings Press 2006); editor of Transforming the Development Landscape: the Role of the Private Sector (Brookings Press 2006) and Security by Other Means (Brookings Press 2006); and coauthor of The Other War: Global Poverty and the Millennium Challenge Corporation (Brookings Press 2004). Select recent publications include “Services Offshoring, American Jobs, and the Global Economy,†with Robert E. Litan, Perspectives on Work, Winter 2005; “Reassessing National Security,†with Michael O’Hanlon, in Alice Rivlin and Isabel Sawhill, eds., Restoring Fiscal Sanity, Brookings Press, 2004; "Building Common Ground on Trade Demands More Than a Name Change," with Hal Shapiro, The George Washington International Law Review, 2003; “Compassionate Conservatism Confronts Global Poverty,†The Washington Quarterly, Spring 2003; and "The Implications for the Global Economy of America's Campaign against Terrorism," Cambridge Review of International Affairs, July 2002. |
