Bridging research and policy
Many of our faculty affiliates have worked in presidential administrations since SIEPR鈥檚 founding in 1982, helping shape and inform economic policymaking with their academic expertise. This video spotlights Neale Mahoney, the incoming director of SIEPR who served on the National Economic Council. His role as a special policy advisor required his academic expertise to guide decisions made by the White House. Neale describes his experience in Washington, D.C., what hooked him on econ, and the importance of a 鈥渢wo-way street鈥 between academia and the policy world.
"You are working on the most difficult, most consequential problems in this country."
He "got the bug" for economics and public policy as a high school student. Since then, Neale Mahoney has committed himself to merging those interests and building a pipeline between 黄色电影 and Washington, D.C.