Aaron Klein
Fellow - Economic Studies, Policy Director - Center on Regulation and Markets at Brookings Institution
Biography
Brookings Institution
Aaron Klein is a fellow in Economic Studies and serves as policy director of the Center on Regulation and Markets. He focuses on financial regulation and technology, macroeconomics, and infrastructure finance and policy. Previously, Klein directed the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Financial Regulatory Reform Initiative and served at the Treasury Department as deputy assistant secretary for economic policy.
Prior to his appointment as deputy assistant secretary in 2009, he served as Chief Economist of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee for Chairmen Chris Dodd and Paul Sarbanes. He worked on financial regulatory reform issues including crafting and helping secure passage of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. He also played leading roles on housing finance reform, transportation and infrastructure policy.
Klein serves as an external economist and consultant for the National Homebuyers Fund and for the Native American Finance Officers Association. He provides occasional expert analysis for several groups, including Gerson Lerhman Group, AlphaSights, and Guidepoint.
Klein is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.
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