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Geoff Mulgan is director of the Young Foundation, a London-based center
for social research, innovation, enterprise, and public policy with a 50-year
history of pioneering sociological research and creating new organizations
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sor at the London School of Economics and Political Science, University
College London, and Melbourne University. Between 1997 and 2004 he
had various roles in the U.K. government, including director of the gov-
ernment’s Strategy Unit and head of policy in the prime minister’s office.
He also has been chief adviser to Member of Parliament Gordon Brown,
a lecturer in telecommunications, an investment executive, and a reporter
on BBC TV and radio. His most recent book is The Art of Public Strategy.
He has a Ph.D. in telecommunications from the University of Westminster.
Robert A. Pollak is Hernreich distinguished professor of economics in the
Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Olin School of Business at Washington
University in St. Louis. His research interests include the economics of the
family, price and cost-of-living indexes, and environmental policy. At the
National Research Council, he served on the Committee on National Sta-
tistics panel on cost-of-living indexes. From 1997 to 2007, Pollak cochaired
the MacArthur Foundation Network on the Family and the Economy, an
interdisciplinary group of economists, sociologists, and developmental psy-
chologists studying the functioning of families. He has a Ph.D. in economics
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Kenneth Prewitt is the Carnegie professor of public affairs and the vice-
president for global centers at Columbia University. In addition to teaching
for many years at the University of Chicago, he has served as the director of
the U.S. Census Bureau, director of the National Opinion Research Center,
president of the Social Science Research Council, and senior vice president
of the Rockefeller Foundation. He is a lifetime National Associate of the
National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences; a fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Politi-
cal and Social Science, the American Association for the Advancement of
Science, the Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and
the Russell-Sage Foundation; and member of other professional associa-
tions. He has an M.A. from Washington University, attended the Harvard
Divinity School as a Danforth fellow, and has a Ph.D. in political science
from Stanford University.
Barbara Schneider is the John A. Hannah distinguished professor in the
College of Education and the Department of Sociology at Michigan State
University. She worked for 18 years at the University of Chicago, holding

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