Under his leadership, Brookings first published a series of “Agenda for the Nation” volumes, which are collections of papers on domestic and foreign policy issues, and also launched the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (BPEA), which remains a highly influential economics journal 47 years later. Among many accomplishments, his role in creating a strong wage-price guidelines is well-regarded. Bureau of the Budget during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. He also served in the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. Prior to his tenure at Brookings, he served as the director of the U.S. In 1967, Kermit Gordon became the third president of Brookings. Born in Lebanon, Connecticut, Calkins died in Silver Spring, Maryland in July 1992, at the age of 89.
During the 1960 president election, Brookings researchers prepared briefing papers on numerous policy issues for both the Kennedy and Nixon camps, and aided the incoming Kennedy administration with a smooth transition of power from Eisenhower. During his presidency, the Institution relocated from Jackson Place near the White House to its current home on Massachusetts Avenue, near Dupont Circle. Calkins was formerly director of the General Education Board, a foundation that promoted educational improvements in the South, and also an academic at UC Berkeley and dean of the Columbia University Business School. Moulton was born in November 1883 in Rose Lake Township, Michigan, and died in December 1965 in Charles Town, West Virginia.Įconomist and educator Robert Calkins became the second Brookings leader in 1952. Less than four weeks later, Brookings produced a 20-page report that guided what would become known as the Marshall Plan.
Vandenberg, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, requested “a quick helping hand” from the Institution on questions concerning the European Recovery Program. Moulton was Brookings president in late 1947 when Sen. In 1923, Moulton and IE staff economist Constantine McGuire wrote of post-Great War Europe that “the reparation situation has gone from very bad to worse.” In their reports they studied the ability of Germany and its allies on the losing side of World War I to pay the debts mandated by the Versailles Treaty. He was a University of Chicago economist-where he earned his doctorate in 1914-and, since 1922, the director of the Institute of Economics (IE). In 1927, the Brookings trustees chose Harold Moulton to be the Institution’s first president. Here are brief profiles of new Brookings President John Allen’s predecessors since the 1927 merger and incorporation of the Brookings Institution. Willoughby, an academic and public servant, was the first director of IGR. Brookings Graduate School of Economics and Government (1923)-into the Brookings Institution.
That year marked the merger of Brookings’s predecessor organizations-the Institute for Government Research (founded in 1916), the Institute of Economics (1922), and the Robert S. Since its incorporation as the Brookings Institution in 1927, the Institution has been led by accomplished academics and public servants. He succeeds Brookings president Strobe Talbott, who served as the Institution’s president for more than 15 years. Marine Corps four-star general and former commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, and most recently served as chair of security and strategy and a distinguished fellow in the Foreign Policy Program at Brookings. Allen becomes the Brookings Institution’s eighth leader.
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