Michael R. Strain is Paul F. Oreffice Senior Fellow in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute. He is also Professor of Practice in the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. His research and writing is in a wide range of areas, including labor markets, public finance, social policy, and macroeconomics. He has published over 50 scholarly articles in academic and policy journals and is the editor of four books on economic and policy issues. He is the author of The American Dream Is Not Dead: (But Populism Could Kill It), which analyzes longer-term trends in economic outcomes for workers and households. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and of the Aspen Economic Strategy Group, and serves on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Political & Social Science. He is a research fellow with IZA and a research affiliate with the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He was a member of the AEI-Brookings Working Group on Poverty and Opportunity, which published the report “Opportunity, Responsibility, and Security: A Consensus Plan for Reducing Poverty and Restoring the American Dream” and of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committee that published the report, “Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work.”

Michael Strain joined IZA as a Research Fellow in August 2017.