Howard J. Shatz is a senior economist at RAND and a professor of policy analysis at the RAND School of Public Policy. He specializes in international economics, international development, and economics and national security. His RAND research has included Ukraine’s post-war reconstruction and economic issues related to Russia’s war on Ukraine; international economic competition, including U.S.-China competition and the U.S. role in the global economic order; great power competition in the Middle East; and socio-economic policy projects in China, the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Mongolia, and Saudi Arabia. From 2007 to 2008, he was on leave from RAND, serving as a senior economist at the U.S. President’s Council of Economic Advisers. Shatz has held research fellowships at the Brookings Institution and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and has worked as a consultant to the World Bank. He holds a Ph.D. in public policy from Harvard University.