Andrew Yarrow

Andrew Yarrow

Andrew Yarrow is Vice President and director of the organization’s new Washington, DC, office. As director of the Washington office, he is responsible for further developing the organization’s government, public policy, and media relationships and organizational activities in the Washington region.

Yarrow has been a visiting assistant professor of U.S. history at American University, where he continues to teach as an adjunct professor. He was previously the Director of Outreach for Special Projects in the Economic Studies Program at The Brookings Institution. Yarrow is the author of Forgive Us Our Debts: The Intergenerational Dangers of Fiscal Irresponsibility (Yale University Press, 2008), and the forthcoming book, The Measure of America: The Rise of Economic Thinking and Changing Ideas About America in the Post-World War II Era. He also published Latecomers: Children of Parents Over 35 in 1991, and has published widely in academic journals, newspapers, and popular magazines. From 1981 to 1992, he was a reporter for The New York Times, at various times covering style, culture and metropolitan news, and serving as a research editor for The New York Times Magazine.

Yarrow’s diverse experience in public policy in Washington and New York also includes having worked for the Export-Import Bank of the United States, the U.S. Department of Education, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the U.S. Department of Labor, the National Endowment for the Arts, The World Bank and the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict.

Yarrow has a Ph.D. in history from George Mason University, an MPA from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, an M.A. in History from Princeton University, and a B.A. in history from the University of California, Los Angeles.