Dean Baker, Co-Director | Full bio
Dean Baker co-founded CEPR in 1999. His areas of research include housing and macroeconomics, intellectual property, Social Security, Medicare and European labor markets. He is the author of several books, including False Profits: Recovering from the Bubble Economy, Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy, The United States Since 1980, Social Security: The Phony Crisis (with Mark Weisbrot), and The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer. His blog, Beat the Press, provides commentary on economic reporting. He received his B.A. from Swarthmore College and his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan.

Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director | Full bio
Mark Weisbrot co-founded CEPR in 1999. His areas of research include economic growth, trade, international financial institutions, and Latin America. He writes a column on economic and policy issues that is distributed to over 550 newspapers by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. He is co-author of Social Security: The Phony Crisis (with Dean Baker). He appears frequently on TV and radio news programs including, BBC World News, CNN, PBS NewsHour and Marketplace radio. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan.

Eileen Appelbaum, Senior Economist | Full bio
Dr. Eileen Appelbaum previously served as director of the Rutgers Center for Women and Work. During her tenure, Dr. Appelbaum built the Center into a major locus for research on women's advancement in the labor market and at the workplace. The Center undertook numerous projects that were aimed at understanding and improving the lives of working women at all income levels. Prior to taking over the Center at Rutgers she was the research director at the Economic Policy Institute. She previously had been a professor of economics at Temple University.

Alan Barber, Domestic Communications Coordinator
Alan works with CEPR economists and analysts to present CEPR's work to the public and the media. Before joining CEPR, he worked at Congressional Quarterly and Mammen Pritchard Inc. Prior to this, he worked on a number of political campaigns at both the state and national level. He holds degrees in Government and Psychology from Georgetown University.

Daniel Beeton, International Communications Coordinator
Dan Beeton has more than a dozen years of experience working on international policy issues with organizations including the Center for Economic Justice, Haiti Reborn, and the U.S. Campaign for Burma. Prior to joining CEPR, he was associate director for Citizens Trade Campaign where he did research and advocacy on U.S. trade policy. His writings on Haiti, Latin America, trade, and other topics have been published in the Los Angeles Times, the NACLA Report on the Americas, and other publications.

Deborah James, Director of International Programs
Deborah James has over a dozen years of expertise working on issues of trade and democratic global governance. At CEPR, her work focuses on the World Trade Organization, the International Monetary Fund, and US policy towards Latin America. Prior to CEPR, she was the Director of the WTO Program of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, where she worked to inform civil society and governments worldwide about the potential impacts of the WTO's proposed Doha Round expansion. She was also the Global Economy Director of Global Exchange, where she did similar work around the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas. She has written numerous articles and makes regular media appearances in English and Spanish on these issues, and has appeared on CNN en Español, Voice of America, CNN International, and the O'Reilly Factor, among other news outlets. She graduated cum laude in Psychology and Women's Studies from the University of California at San Diego, and holds a Masters in International Policy and Planning from the George Washington University.

Alex Main, Senior Associate for International Policy
In his work at CEPR, Alexander Main focuses on U.S. foreign policy in Latin America and the Caribbean and regularly engages with U.S. policy makers and civil society groups to inform the public debate.  He is frequently interviewed by media in the U.S. and Latin American and his analyses on U.S. policy in the Americas have been published in a variety of domestic and international media outlets including Foreign Policy, NACLA and the Monde diplomatique.  Prior to CEPR, Alexander spent more than six years in Latin America working as an international relations analyst. He has a degree in history and political science from the Sorbonne University in Paris, France.

Rebecca Ray, Research Associate
Rebecca Ray has an M.A. in International Development Studies with a concentration in Economic Development Policy, from the Elliott School for International Affairs at George Washington University. Her academic fieldwork has included consulting for the Partnership for Food Industry Development in Nicaragua and the Institute for Sustainability Education and Action in Salt Spring Island, Canada.

David Rosnick, Economist | Full bio
David Rosnick is the architect of CEPR's online calculators, including the Accurate Benefits Calculator and Housing Cost Calculator. Previously, he worked as a research associate at the North Carolina State University Department of Computer Science. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from N.C. State, a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering Physics from the University of Illinois, and an M.A. in Economics from George Washington University.

John Schmitt, Senior Economist | Full bio
John Schmitt has written extensively on unemployment, economic inequality, U.S./Europe labor economic performance and the welfare state. He has worked as a consultant for the American Center for International Labor Solidarity, the Global Policy Network, the International Labor Organization, and the UN Economic Commission for Latin America. He is also a visiting lecturer at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. He holds a B.A. in International Affairs from Princeton University and an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in economics from the London School of Economics.

Nicole Woo, Director of Domestic Policy | Blog Posts
Nicole Woo has worked on domestic hunger policy as the Associate Director of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger and as a Senior Policy Analyst at the Food Research and Action Center. She also has worked as a fundraiser and director of administration for several non-profit organizations in New York City and Washington, DC. She received her B.A. from Harvard University, where she concentrated in Government.