Howard Wial

Howard Wial is currently a senior research associate at the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C. where he directs and contributes original research to the Metropolitan Economy Project.

He has published in academic journals and books on such topics as the role of social networks in job mobility, trends in job stability in the U.S., and service sector employment, and is a co-author with Stephen Herzenberg, of New Rules for a New Economy: Employment and Opportunity in Postindustrial America (Cornell University ILR Press).

Dr. Wial has taught at Swarthmore, Brandeis, Carleton, Brown, and Penn State; served as an economist and policy analyst with the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Technology Assessment, and General Accounting Office; and directed research for nonprofit public policy analysis and consulting organizations including the Keystone Research Center.

He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a J.D. from Yale Law School.