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Chad P. Bown is the Reginald Jones Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE). He is also the host of Trade Talks, a podcast about the economics of international trade and policy that he co-created with Soumaya Keynes (Financial Times) in 2017 and which they cohosted through 2021. In 2026, Keynes and Bown published their book, How to Win a Trade War (Simon & Schuster, Pan Macmillan), which has been translated into German, Spanish, and Korean. Bown’s popular writing has also appeared in The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Bloomberg, Foreign Policy, and Harvard Business Review.
Bown has undertaken public service for two U.S. administrations. He served as Chief Economist in the U.S. Department of State in the Biden-Harris administration and as Senior Economist in the White House on President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA). He has also been on the research staff at the World Bank and the World Trade Organization.
Bown was also on the faculty for 12 years at Brandeis University, where he was a tenured professor of economics. He is currently a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. His academic research has been published in American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Development Economics, and more. He has also written or edited numerous other books.
Bown received a B.A. magna cum laude in Economics and International Relations from Bucknell University and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.