Carol Graham
Senior Fellow in the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution and Senior Scientist at Gallup
Graham is the author of more than a dozen books, including most recently, The Power of Hope: How Wellbeing Science Can Save us from Despair (Princeton, 2023) and Happiness for All? Unequal Lives and Hopes in Pursuit of the American Dream (Princeton University Press, 2017). She served on a National Academy of Sciences panel on well-being metrics and policy and won the Pioneer Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Lifetime Distinguished Scholar award from the International Society of Quality of Life Studies. She has testified in Congress several times and appeared on NBC News, National Public Radio, The Newshour with Jim Lehrer, and CNN among others. Graham has also written in the Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Financial Times, and Washington Post. Reviews of her work on well-being have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Financial Times, the New York Review of Books, and Science.
