Demos Senior Policy Staff and FellowsMiles Rapoport, President
Prior to assuming the helm at Demos, he served for ten years in the Connecticut legislature. As a state legislator, he was a leading expert on electoral reform, chairing the Committee on Elections. In 1994, he was elected as Secretary of the State of Connecticut. As Secretary of the State, Rapoport released two unique reports on the state of democracy in Connecticut. His articles have appeared in national magazines and newspapers, and he is the founder of Northeast Action, a leading political reform organization in New England. Rapoport moved to Demos from his position as Executive Director of DemocracyWorks, a Hartford-based group that works on democracy reform. Tamara Draut, Vice President of Policy and Programs
Robert Kuttner, Distinguished Senior Fellow
Robert is the author of eight books, including the recent New York Times bestseller, Obama's Challenge: American's Economic Crisis and the Power of a Transformative Presidency, (Chelsea Green, 2008). Robert's last book, The Squandering of America, explores political roots of America's narrowing prosperity and the systemic risks facing the U.S. economy. He has just begun work on a new book on the challenge of regulating global capitalism. Bob's best-known earlier book is Everything for Sale: The Virtues and Limits of Markets (1997). The book received a page one review in the New York Times Book Review. Of it, the late economist Robert Heilbroner wrote, "I have never seen the market system better described, more intelligently appreciated, or more trenchantly criticized than in Everything for Sale." Bob's other previous books on economics and politics include: The End of Laissez-Faire (1991); The Life of the Party (1987); The Economic Illusion (1984); and Revolt of the Haves (1980). Bob's magazine writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine and Book Review, The Atlantic, The New Republic, The New Yorker, Dissent, Columbia Journalism Review, and Harvard Business Review. He has contributed major articles to The New England Journal of Medicine as a national policy correspondent. For four decades, Bob's intellectual and political project has been to revive the politics and economics of harnessing capitalism to serve a broad public interest. He has pursued this ideal as a writer, editor, teacher, lecturer, commentator and public official. Teresa Ghilarducci, Distinguished Senior Fellow
Jonathan Cohn, Senior Fellow
Jonathan's writing on domestic policy and politics--particularly health care--have appeared in the Boston Globe, Mother Jones, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, the Washington Monthly, and the Washington Post. His recent book, Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis, (HarperCollins, 2007), explores the U.S. health care system. Prior to joining The New Republic, he worked for The American Prospect, where he remains a contributing editor. He is also a former media fellow with the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. A graduate of Harvard University, where he was president of the Harvard Crimson, Jonathan spent his summers writing local news articles for the New Orleans Times-Picayune and the Miami Herald. He now lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with his wife and two children. |
The Century Foundation Senior Policy Staff and FellowsRichard C. Leone, President
Greg Anrig, Vice President, Programs
Jeffrey G. Madrick, Fellow
Maggie Mahar, Fellow
Bernard Wasow, Senior Fellow
Other ExpertsHenry J. Aaron
Aaron is a graduate of U.C.L.A and holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the advisory committee of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and the visiting committee of the Harvard Medical School. He is a member of the board of directors of Abt Associates and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. He was a founding member, vice president, and chair of the board of the National Academy of Social Insurance. He has been vice president and member of the executive committee of the American Economic Association and was president of the Association of Public Policy and Management. He has been a member of the boards of directors of the College Retirement Equity Fund and Georgetown University. He has authored and edited numerous publications including Reforming Medicare: Options, Tradeoffs, and Opportunities (co-authored with Jeanne M. Lambrew), which was published by The Century Foundation. |
As President, Miles sets Demos' agenda and oversees the management of the organization and fundraising efforts.
Tamara Draut is Vice-President of Policy and Programs at Demos, where she's served as Director of the Economic Opportunity Program for the past seven years. Tamara oversees Demos' research, policy and advocacy work on issues related to economic security and mobility. She is the author of 
Robert Kuttner is co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect magazine, as well as a Demos Distinguished Senior Fellow. He was a longtime columnist for BusinessWeek, and continues to write columns in the Boston Globe.
Teresa Ghilarducci is the Irene and Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of Economic Policy Analysis at the New School for Social Research. Her 2008 book, When I'm Sixty-four: The Plot Against Pensions and the Plan to Save Them (Princeton University Press) investigates how to restore the promise of retirement for all Americans. Her book, Labor's Capital: The Economics and Politics of Employer Pensions (MIT Press) won an Association of American Publishers award in 1992. She co-authored Portable Pension Plans for Casual Labor Markets in 1995.
Jonathan Cohn is a Senior Editor at The New Republic, where he has been since 1997 and served previously as Executive Editor.
Richard C. Leone is president of The Century Foundation. He was formerly chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey as well as state treasurer of New Jersey. He also was president of the New York Mercantile Exchange and a managing director at Dillon Read and Co., an investment banking firm. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the National Academy of Social Insurance. He is coeditor (with Greg Anrig) of three collections of essays: Liberty Under Attack: Reclaiming Our Freedoms in an Age of Terror (PublicAffairs, 2007); The War on Our Freedoms: Civil Liberties in an Age of Terrorism (PublicAffairs, 2003); and Social Security Reform: Beyond the Basics (The Century Foundation Press, 1999). His analytical and opinion pieces have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Foreign Affairs, and the Nation.
Greg Anrig is vice president, policy, at The Century Foundation. Since 1994, he has been responsible for overseeing The Century Foundation's projects on public policy as well as its fellows. Previously, he was a staff writer and Washington correspondent for Money magazine. He is the author of The Conservatives Have No Clothes: Why Right-Wing Ideas Keep Failing (John Wiley & Sons, 2007) and, in addition to the three volumes coedited with Richard C. Leone, he is coeditor (with Tova Andrea Wang) of Immigration's New Frontiers: Experiences from the Emerging Gateway States (The Century Foundation Press, 2006). He also is a featured blogger on TPM Café and a regular columnist for the Guardian Unlimited. 
Jeff Madrick is a fellow at The Century Foundation, the editor of Challenge Magazine, visiting professor of humanities at The Cooper Union, and director of policy research at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, The New School. He was formerly finance editor of BusinessWeek and an NBC News reporter and commentator. His awards include an Emmy and a Page One Award. He is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, and a former economics columnist for the New York Times. He is the author of several books, including Taking America: How We Got from the First Hostile Takeover to Megamergers, Corporate Raiding, and Scandal (Bantam, 1987) and The End of Affluence: The Causes and Consequences of America's Economic Dilemma (Random House, 1997), both of which were New York Times Notable Books of the Year. Taking America was also chosen by BusinessWeek as one of the ten best books of the year. He edited a book of public policy essays, Unconventional Wisdom: Alternative Perspectives on the New Economy (The Century Foundation Press, 2000) and his most recent book is Why Economies Grow: The Forces That Shape Prosperity and How We Can Get Them Working Again (a Century Foundation Book, published by Basic Books, 2002). He has written many public policy papers and has written for many other publications, including the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Institutional Investor, the Nation, the American Prospect, the Boston Globe, Newsday, and the business, op-ed, and magazine sections of the New York Times. He has appeared on Charlie Rose, the News Hour with Jim Lehrer, Now With Bill Moyers, Frontline, CNN, CNBC, CBS, and NPR. He is currently at work on a biographical history of the American economy, to be published by Alfred A. Knopf, and a brief work on the purposes of government, to be published by Princeton University Press.
Maggie Mahar is a fellow at The Century Foundation and editor of its Health Beat blog. Before specializing in health care, Mahar was a financial journalist. She has written for Institutional Investor, the New York Times, and Barron's, where she served first as senior writer and then as senior editor from the late 1980s through the late 1990s. There, she covered Wall Street, Washington, and social policy as well as markets and politics in Russia, Japan, and the Middle East. After leaving Barron's, she wrote a column about international markets and economics for Bloomberg. Before becoming a journalist, she was an English professor at Yale University. She is the author of Money-Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much (Harper/Collins, 2006) and Bull! A History of the Boom, 1982-1999 (Harper/Collins, 2003), a book that Warren Buffett recommended in Berkshire Hathaway's annual report. She holds a B.A. and a Ph.D. in English literature from Yale University. 
Bernard Wasow is a senior fellow and economist at The Century Foundation. He has been a member of the economics departments at the University of British Columbia, the University of Nairobi (five years), and New York University (twenty years, tenured), and was a visiting scholar at Columbia University, Monash University (Melbourne, Australia), and the Central European University (Prague, Czech Republic). He also has worked in the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and as a program officer at the Ford Foundation. Besides teaching overseas, he has spent a year each in Puerto Rico, with the Committee to Study Puerto Rico's Finances, and Bangladesh, with the Harvard Institute for International Development. He has participated in two World Bank missions to Kenya and two to Mongolia, the second of which as mission leader. His publications are in the fields of international economics and development. He received his B.A. from Reed College and his Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University, and in between, he spent a year as a DAAD Fellow at the Free University of Berlin. 
Henry J. Aaron, a leading economic analyst and a noted authority on health care, welfare, tax policy and social security, is the Bruce and Virginia MacLaury Senior Fellow in the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution, where he has been on staff since 1968. From 1990 through 1996 he was the director of the Economic Studies program.
From 1967 until 1989 he also taught at the University of Maryland. In 1977 and 1978 he served as Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. He chaired the 1979 Advisory Council on Social Security. During the academic year 1996-97, he was a Guggenheim Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.