Ben Harris
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Ben Harris is vice president and director of Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution, where he also holds the Bruce and Virginia MacLaury Chair. His work focuses on public finance and macroeconomics. Before returning to Brookings, he served as assistant secretary for economic policy and chief economist at the U.S. Treasury Department, and earlier held economic policy roles advising the vice president of the United States, the Council of Economic Advisers, and the U.S. House Budget Committee. He has also held multiple Brookings roles over the course of his career, including director of the Retirement Security Project, policy director for the Hamilton Project, and fellow in Economic Studies, and he is known as the co-author with Martin Baily of the 2023 book “The Retirement Challenge: What’s Wrong with America’s System and a Sensible Way to Fix It.”
Updated 14 September 2026
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