Ron Haskins is a senior fellow in the Economic Studies program and co-director of the Center on Children and Families at the Brookings Institution; He is also a senior consultant at the Annie E. Casey Foundation in Baltimore, Maryland. From February to December of 2002, he was the senior advisor to the president for welfare policy at the White House.
Prior to joining Brookings and Casey, he spent 14 years on the staff of the House Ways and Means Human Resources Subcommittee, first as welfare counsel to the Republican staff, then as the subcommittee’s staff director. He is the author of numerous publications, and his areas of expertise include welfare reform, child care, child support, marriage, child protection, and budget and deficit issues. In 1997, Mr. Haskins was selected by the National Journal as one of the 100 most influential people in the federal government. He received the President’s Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Human Services from the American Public Human Services Association (2005) and the Lion Award from the Grantmakers for Children, Youth and Families (2010).
Mr. Haskins holds a bachelor’s degree in History, a master’s in Education, and a Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology, all from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.