Economist and Author Allison Schrager Joins Manhattan Institute as Senior Fellow

NEW YORK, NY — The Manhattan Institute is proud to announce that economist and author Allison Schrager has joined the Manhattan Institute as a senior fellow, focusing on economic policy. Her work will expand the Institute’s portfolio of work in the areas of public finance, pensions, tax policy, labor markets, and monetary policy.

Schrager is an economist, journalist, author of An Economist Walks into a Brothel: And Other Unexpected Places to Understand Risk, and co-founder of LifeCycle Finance Partners, LLC, a risk advisory firm. Her diverse career has spanned finance, policy, and media. She led retirement product innovation at Dimensional Fund Advisors and consulted to international organizations, including the OECD and IMF.

She has been a regular contributor to the Economist, Reuters, and Bloomberg Businessweek, and her writing has also appeared in Playboy, Wired, National Review, and Foreign Affairs. She has an undergraduate degree from the University of Edinburgh and a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University. She teaches at New York University and lives in New York City.

“Over the course of her career, Allison has proven to be a brilliant economist with the unusual ability to translate her work into terms that everyone can understand,” said Reihan Salam, president of the Manhattan Institute. “Her ability to distill complicated policy issues into clear, tangible takeaways makes her a perfect fit at the Manhattan Institute, and we are thrilled to add her to our ranks.”