Harry J. Holzer

Who is Harry J. Holzer?

Harry Holzer is an American economist, educator and public policy analyst. He is a Professor of Public Policy at Georgetown University.

In the Clinton Administration, Holzer served as the Chief Economist for the U.S. Department of Labor. He has served as the Associate Dean of the Georgetown Public Policy Institute and as Acting Dean.

Holzer is currently an Institute Fellow at the American Institutes for Research, where he is codirector of the research program on postsecondary education and the labor market for the National Center for the Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research. Holzer has also been a founder and co-director of the Georgetown Center on Poverty, Inequality and Public Policy. He is currently an Affiliated Scholar at the Urban Institute in Washington, DC, a Senior Affiliate of the National Poverty Center at the University of Michigan, a National Fellow of the Program on Inequality and Social Policy at Harvard University, a Research Affiliate of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a Nonresident Senior Fellow with the Brookings Metropolitan Program.

Holzer is a member of the editorial board at the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, and a Research Fellow at IZA. He is a member of the board of directors for both the National Skills Coalition and the Economic Mobility Corporation. He has also been a professor of economics at Michigan State University, a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, and a Faculty Research Fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research.