Michael Weinstein

Director of Policy, Planning and Research, The Robin Hood Foundation

Michael M. Weinstein serves as Director of Policy, Planning and Research for The Robin Hood Foundation. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from M.I.T. and served as chairman of the Department of Economics of Haverford College during the 1980s. He was the economics analyst and commentator for National Public Radio before joining The New York Times, where he served on the editorial board and as the Times' economics columnist during the 1990s. In 2001, he became the first director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, also holding the Paul A. Volcker Chair in International Economics at the Council. Weinstein manages the Institutes for Journalists at The New York Times Company Foundation (which trains journalists in complicated subjects about to hit the headlines) and is president and founder of W.A.D. Financial Counseling, Inc., a non-profit foundation which provides free financial counseling to poor families.

Weinstein has written 1,300 or so columns, editorials, news analysis articles and magazine pieces for The New York Times about health care, welfare, energy, social security, tax, budget, trade, inequality, environment, regulation, antitrust, telecommunications, education, banking and many other public policy issues. He recently co-authored The Democracy Advantage: How Democracies Promote Prosperity and Peace, (Routledge and the Council on Foreign Relations, 2004) and edited Globalization: What's New? (Columbia University Press and the Council on Foreign Relations, 2005). He's also published articles in academic economics and foreign-policy journals.