Martin Neil Baily, based in Washington, D.C., is a senior academic advisor
at the McKinsey Global Institute, where he has been an advisor since 1996. He is
also a senior fellow at Brookings, where his primary focus is on issues
globalization, productivity and competitiveness, Social Security reform, and
U.S. economic policy. Baily was previously chairman of the Council of Economic
Advisers during the Clinton administration (1999-2001) and one of three members
of the council from 1994 to 1996. He was also a senior fellow at the Peterson
Institute for International Economics (2001-2007) and a professor of economics
at the University of Maryland (1989-96).
Baily was a member of the academic advisory panel of the Congressional Budget Office and has served as an academic advisor to the Federal Reserve Board and on a panel convened by the Office of Technology Assessment. He was the vice chairman of a panel of the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council investigating the effect of computers on productivity and was a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Baily co-founded the microeconomics issue of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity.
He earned his Ph.D. in economics at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and has taught at both MIT and
Yale University. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including
Transforming the European Economy, co-authored with Jacob Kirkegaard
and published by IIE in September 2004.
