Release: Economist Amitabh Chandra Is the New John H. Makin Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Washington, DC (August 3, 2020) — American Enterprise Institute (AEI) President Robert Doar announced today that economist Amitabh Chandra, a professor at Harvard Business School and the Harvard Kennedy School, has been appointed John H. Makin Visiting Scholar for the 2020–21 academic year.

“I am delighted to announce that Amitabh Chandra will be the John H. Makin Visiting Scholar,” said Robert Doar. “His work on health care issues is timely and needed. We are happy to welcome him as our newest colleague.”

Added Michael Strain, the director of economic policy studies at AEI, “Dr. Chandra is one of the world’s leading health care economists, and we are honored to have him join our community of scholars.”

At AEI, Dr. Chandra will continue his work on innovation and pricing in the biopharmaceutical industry, medical malpractice, and many other health care issues.

Dr. Chandra concurrently serves as the Henry and Allison McCance Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and the Ethel Zimmerman Wiener Professor of Public Policy, at the Harvard Kennedy School. An elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and the National Academy of Social Insurance, Dr. Chandra has been widely published in health and economics journals and in the popular press, including the American Economic Review, the Journal of the American Medical Association, the New England Journal of Medicine, Health Affairs, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.

“I am looking forward to spending part of this coming academic year with my new AEI colleagues. I am also proud to hold a chair named after the late John Makin, whose work we all admire, and look forward to producing new research in the health care field during these trying pandemic times,” said Dr. Chandra.

Created thanks to a generous gift from Gwendolyn van Paasschen, Dr. Makin’s wife of 31 years, the John H. Makin Visiting Scholar chair was established to recognize Dr. Makin’s numerous contributions to economic research and policy at AEI, as well as his work as a university professor, a chief economist on Wall Street, and a consultant to the US Treasury Department, the Congressional Budget Office, and the International Monetary Fund. During his more than 30 years at AEI, Dr. Makin wrote numerous books and articles on financial and monetary policy, including the widely read monthly “Economic Outlook,” which paired insightful research with a discussion of current economic topics.

For questions and media inquiries, please email [email protected] or call 202.862.5829. Dr. Chandra can be followed on Twitter @amitabhchandra2.

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