Aaron Klein

Aaron Klein is Miriam K. Carliner Chair and senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution. Prior to joining Brookings in 2016, he directed the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Financial Regulatory Reform Initiative. Between 2009 and 2012, Klein served as the deputy assistant secretary for economic policy at the Department of Treasury. He worked on financial regulatory reform issues including crafting and helping secure passage of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. Klein served as chief economist of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee for Chairmen Chris Dodd and Paul Sarbanes. Klein is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. He lives in his hometown of Silver Spring, Maryland with his wife and two daughters.