Timeline of Brookings Institution
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| Time period | Development summary | More details |
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| Year | Event type | Details |
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| 1916 | "In 1916, Robert S. Brookings worked with other government reformers to create the first private organization devoted to the fact-based study of national public policy issues. The new Institute for Government Research became the chief advocate for effective and efficient public service and sought to bring science to the study of government."[1] | |
| 1922 | "Brookings created two sister organizations: the Institute of Economics in 1922 and a graduate school in 1924"[1] | |
| 1924 | "Brookings created two sister organizations: the Institute of Economics in 1922 and a graduate school in 1924"[1] | |
| 1927 | "Brookings created two sister organizations: the Institute of Economics in 1922 and a graduate school in 1924. In 1927, the institutes and the school merged to form the present-day Brookings Institution, with the mission to promote, conduct and foster research “in the broad fields of economics, government administration and the political and social sciences.”"[1] | |
| 1927 | Harold Moulton (1927 – 1952)[1] | |
| 1952 | Robert Calkins.[1] | |
| 1967 | Kermit Gordon.[1] | |
| 1976 | Gilbert Y. Steiner.[1] | |
| 1977 | Bruce MacLaury.[1] | |
| 1995 | Michael Armacost.[1] | |
| 2002 | Strobe Talbott.[1] | |
| 2017 | John R. Allen.[1] |
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