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Janet Hansen
Vice President and Director of Education Studies
janet.hansen@ced.org
Janet Hansen serves as CED’s Vice President and Director of Education Studies. She has directed several CED reports on such education issues as improving public investment in education, prekindergarten for all, and educational assessment and measurement.
Dr. Hansen initially joined CED in 1999 and rejoined in 2007 after spending three years as Senior Policy Researcher at the RAND Corporation. At RAND her work focused on transforming American school finance into a performance-oriented system that supports and encourages the effective use of educational resources to improve student learning, especially in traditionally-underperforming urban areas. She was RAND's project director on a joint study of school finance reform sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
From 1991-98 Dr. Hansen was senior program officer at the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council (NAS/NRC). She was study director for the Committee on Education Finance and co-edited (with Helen F. Ladd) the committee’s 1999 report, Making Money Matter: Financing America’s Schools. She served as director of the Board on International Comparative Studies in Education, and also prepared NAS/NRC reports on education and training for the workplace. Earlier, Dr. Hansen was Director for Policy Analysis for The College Board and an academic administrator at Princeton University and the Claremont Colleges.
Dr. Hansen received a Ph.D. in public and international affairs from Princeton University.
Joseph J. Minarik
Senior Vice President and Director of Research
joe.minarik@ced.org
Dr. Minarik leads CED’s policy research projects on issues including economy and the federal budget, globalization, trade, early childhood education, campaign finance reform, and health care.
From 1981 to 1986, Dr. Minarik worked closely with Congressional Democrats, including Senator Bill Bradley, on efforts to reform the federal income tax. Dr. Minarik published Making Tax Choices (Urban Institute Press, 1985) and many articles on this issue, testified before the Congress on numerous occasions, served on the faculty of the two retreats of the House Ways & Means Committee, and worked informally with policymakers on the evolution of the legislation.
In 1991-92, Dr. Minarik served as executive director for policy and chief economist of the Budget Committee of the House of Representatives under Chairman Leon E. Panetta. When Chairman Panetta was nominated as Director of the Office of Management and Budget in 1993, Dr. Minarik became OMB’s associate director for economic policy. He worked on the formulation and adoption of President Bill Clinton’s 1993 economic program. When the Federal budget became a leading issue in 1995-96, Dr. Minarik worked with then-White House Chief of Staff Panetta and new OMB Director Alice M. Rivlin to formulate the Administration’s program to eliminate the budget deficit, which evolved into the bipartisan Balanced Budget Act of 1997. From 2001-05 he served as policy director and chief economist for the House Budget Committee. He joined CED in 2005
Dr. Minarik received three graduate degrees in economics from Yale University, earning his Ph.D. in 1974. He has a B.A. in economics from Georgetown University.
Elliot Schwartz
Vice President and Director of Economic Studies
elliot.schwartz@ced.org
Elliot Schwartz serves as CED’s Vice President and Director of Economic Studies. He has directed two CED reports on corporate governance issues: Private Enterprise, Public Trust: The State of Corporate America After Sarbanes-Oxley, and Built to Last: Focusing Corporations on Long-Term Performance. He has also directed CED reports on such economic policy issues as addressing global poverty, improving global financial stability, making trade work better for all, and promoting opportunity in the digital economy. He manages CED’s work under the Digital Connections Council.
Mr. Schwartz initially joined CED in 1998 and rejoined in 2005 after serving for a short period as Director of Research at the Council of Institutional Investors (CII). At CII, he was responsible for economic and policy research on topics in the areas of corporate governance and pension fund issues.
Prior to joining CED, Mr. Schwartz was Chief of the Commerce Unit at the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), where he directed numerous research studies in such diverse policy areas as: agriculture, banking, environment, international trade and competitiveness, telecommunications, science and technology, and other business-related programs. In addition, he served as CBO's Principal Coordinator for Private-Sector Mandates Analysis, under the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act (UMRA).
Before CBO, Mr. Schwartz was a research economist at the Office of Management and Budget, where he conducted policy analyses on economic issues in national security and international programs. Studies focused on topics ranging from an evaluation of the effectiveness of U.S. development assistance to the economic consequences of increased defense spending. He also was an international economist at the Treasury Department, with responsibility for issues related to developing nations finance.
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