Aaron Klein

Aaron Klein is Miriam K. Carliner Chair and senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution, focused on financial technology and regulation; payments; macroeconomics; and infrastructure finance and policy. 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. He also played leading roles on responding to the economic crisis, housing finance reform, transportation and infrastructure policy, and Native American policy.

Prior to his appointed Klein served as chief economist of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee for Chairmen Chris Dodd and Paul Sarbanes.

Klein serves on the Board of the PC Project, a charity dedicated to finding a cure for Pachyonychia Congenita, and the American Academy of Political and Social Science. He taught at the Wharton school of Business.

A graduate of Princeton University and Dartmouth College, Klein is a DMV native, living in Silver Spring, Maryland with his wife and two amazing daughters.