Cecilia Elena Rouse is President of the Brookings Institution and the Katzman-Ernst Professor in Economics and Education at Princeton University. A labour economist, her research focuses on the economics of education, including the relationship between education, labour-market outcomes and public policy. She served as Chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers from 2021 to 2023 and previously served on the Council from 2009 to 2011 and at the National Economic Council from 1998 to 1999. She was Dean of Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs from 2012 to 2021 and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.