Aaron D. Klein

Biography

Aaron Klein is Miriam K. Carliner Chair and senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution. He focuses 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.  Before this, Klein was the chief economist of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee for Chairmen Chris Dodd and Paul Sarbanes. He worked on numerous pieces of major legislation, including the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act (TARP), Housing and Economic Recovery Act, and the SAFETEA Act of 2005. He earned his AB from Dartmouth College and his MPA from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.