This course offers an inside view of the policymaking process in the Executive Branch.  Participants will study the structure, processes, and considerations that drive White House policymaking, and leave with an enhanced toolkit for evaluating incoming policy proposals.

This briefing is a “core” lesson in PWBM’s new Certificate for Policy Professionals, which is geared toward congressional staffers and other public policy professionals who work in the Washington, DC area. The program will train students in the economics of public policies and the process of how policies are made. After completing the program, certificate earners will be better prepared to understand and articulate the economic trade-offs of legislation. Please visit our certificate page to learn more and apply.

Lunch will be provided.

Presenter:

Cathy Lynn Taylor is an innovation and policy advisor who served in the George W. Bush Administration as the National Security Council’s Director for International Finance Policy. Cathy is a Simon & Schuster published author, a frequent business and policy television analyst, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She is a graduate of Duke University and earned an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where she serves as an Entrepreneur in Residence and an instructor of the Penn Wharton Budget Model’s Certificate Program for Policy Professionals.

Please contact us at budgetmodel@wharton.upenn.edu if you have any questions about the event.