25 Facts About Brookings Institution

Brookings Institution, often stylized as simply Brookings, is an American research group founded in 1916.

Brookings Institution has five research programs at its Washington campus: Economic Studies, Foreign Policy, Governance Studies, Global Economy and Development, and Metropolitan Policy.

University of Pennsylvania's Global Go To Think Tank Index Report has named Brookings Institution "Think Tank of the Year" and "Top Think Tank in the World" every year since 2008.

Brookings Institution was founded in 1916 as the Institute for Government Research, with the mission of becoming "the first private organization devoted to analyzing public policy issues at the national level.

In 1948, Brookings Institution was asked to submit a plan for administering the European Recovery Program.

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Brookings Institution secured grants from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Ford Foundation that put Brookings on a strong financial basis.

Brookings Institution reorganized it around the Economic Studies, Government Studies, and Foreign Policy Programs.

Brookings Institution began a series of studies of program choices for the federal budget in 1969 titled "Setting National Priorities.

Yet throughout the 1970s, Brookings Institution was offered more federal research contracts than it could handle.

In 1995, Michael Armacost became the sixth president of the Brookings Institution and led an effort to refocus its mission heading into the 21st century.

Under his direction, Brookings created several interdisciplinary research centers, such as the Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy, which brought attention to the strengths of cities and metropolitan areas; and the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies, which brings together specialists from different Asian countries to examine regional problems.

Shortly thereafter, Brookings launched the Saban Center for Middle East Policy and the John L Thornton China Center.

In 2006, Brookings Institution announced the establishment of the Brookings Institution-Tsinghua Center in Beijing.

In July 2007, Brookings Institution announced the creation of the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform to be directed by senior fellow Mark McClellan, and in October 2007 the creation of the Brookings Institution Doha Center directed by fellow Hady Amr in Qatar.

The Brookings Institution Press publishes books and journals from the institution's own research as well as authors outside the organization.

Brookings Institution cooperates with the Lawfare Institute in publishing the Lawfare blog.

The Los Angeles Times called Brookings Institution liberal-leaning and centrist before opining that it did not believe such labels mattered.

Brookings Institution scholars have served in Republican and Democratic administrations, including Mark McClellan, Ron Haskins and Martin Indyk.

Brookings Institution has had eight presidents, including one in acting capacity.

In 2002, the Brookings Institution established the Center for Middle East Policy "to promote a better understanding of the policy choices facing American decision-makers in the Middle East".

In 2006, the Brookings Institution established the Brookings-Tsinghua Center for Public Policy as a partnership between the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC and Tsinghua University's School of Public Policy and Management in Beijing, China.

The Times published documents showing that Brookings accepted grants from Norway with specific policy requests and helped it gain access to U S government officials, as well as other "deliverables".

Several legal specialists who examined the documents told the paper that the language of the transactions "appeared to necessitate Brookings Institution filing as a foreign agent" under the Foreign Agent Registration Act.

Brookings Institution officials denied any connection between the views of their funders and their scholars' work, citing reports that questioned the Qatari government's education reform efforts and criticized its support of militants in Syria.

In 2009, Brookings Institution acquired a building across the street, a former mansion built by the Ingalls family in 1922 on a design by Jules Henri de Sibour.

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