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Fellow in the Brookings Institution’s Brown Center on Education Policy

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Senior Research Fellow at 3ie; International Development & U.S. Domestic Policy Affairs

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Former Fellow at the Manhattan Institue & the Brookings Institution

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Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service (2008-2012)

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Assistant Professor of Government and Politics in the Public and International Affairs Department at George Mason University

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Vice President and Founding Director, Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Institution

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Founding Director of the Center for Urban Innovation at the Aspen Institute

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