Biden-Harris Administration: An early look | Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
Type: Public event
Host: Ford School
Series: Policy Talks @ the Ford School

Biden-Harris Administration: An early look

Hosted by the Ford School and U-M Club of Washington, DC

Date & time

Mar 24, 2021, 6:00-7:30 pm EDT

Location

This is a Virtual Event.

Free and open to the public. Join the conversation: #PolicyTalks

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In his inaugural address, President Biden said, "We will be judged, you and I, by how we resolve the cascading crises of our era."

We invite you to join the Ford School and University of Michigan Club of Washington, DC in taking an early look at the Biden-Harris administration and how it is poised to address the challenges facing the United States.

Moderating the discussion will be Michael S. Barr, Dean of the Ford School, and the founder and Director of the University of Michigan's Center on Finance, Law, and Policy. Dean Barr served as Assistant Treasury Secretary for Financial Institutions during the Obama administration.

Joining Dean Barr will be Betsey Stevenson, Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the Ford School and a member of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisors; Susan D. Page, Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for the United Nations Mission for Justice Support in Haiti, Professor of Practice in International Diplomacy at the Ford School's Weiser Diplomacy Center, and a Professor from Practice at the U-M Law School; and Barry Rabe, U-M's Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Environmental Policy and the J. Ira and Nicki Harris Family Professor of Public Policy at the Ford School.

This event is presented in partnership with the University of Michigan Club of Washington, DC.

Michael S. Barr portrait

Faculty Expert

Michael S. Barr

Frank Murphy Collegiate Professor of Public Policy; Roy F. and Jean Humphrey Proffitt Professor of Law
Barr is a governor and vice chair for supervision of the Federal Reserve Board, currently on leave from the University of Michigan. At U-M, Barr conducted research and wrote about a wide range of issues in domestic and international financial regulation, with a particular emphasis on financial services for low-income communities. He served in President Barack H. Obama's Administration as the U.S. Department of the Treasury's assistant secretary for financial institutions, and was a key architect of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010.
Betsey Stevenson

Faculty Expert

Betsey Stevenson

Professor of Public Policy and Economics
Stevenson is a labor economist who publishes widely about the labor market and the impact of public policies on outcomes both in the labor market and for families. Her research explores women's labor market experiences, the economic forces shaping the modern family, and how these experiences and forces influence each other. She served as the chief economist of the U.S. Department of Labor from 2010 to 2011, participating as the secretary's deputy to the White House economic team.
Ambassador Susan D. Page

Faculty Expert

Susan D. Page

Professor of Practice in International Diplomacy at the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, and Professor from Practice at the University of Michigan's Law School. Director; Weiser Diplomacy Center
Page applies her vast foreign policy experience to the Weiser Diplomacy Center. She has served the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the United Nations, and non-governmental organizations in senior roles for decades, across East, Central, and Southern Africa, and in Haiti and Nepal. Page was the first U.S. ambassador to the Republic of South Sudan and served as Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations in Haiti.
Barry Rabe

Faculty Expert

Barry Rabe

J. Ira and Nicki Harris Family Professor of Public Policy
Rabe examines the political feasibility and durability of environmental and energy policy, with a particular emphasis on efforts to address climate change in the U.S. and other federal systems. His most recent books examine the politics of carbon pricing and the limitations of unilateral executive branch policy actions. Current research explores the politics of intensive but short-lived greenhouse gases, such as methane and HFCs. Recent policy engagement includes work with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Interior, the Department of Commerce, and the Oklahoma Corporation Commission.