2016 ANNUAL REPORT

PHOTO: PAUL MORIGI
PHOTO: PAUL MORIGI
PHOTO: PAUL MORIGI
Trustee Philip Knight
(LEFT) and President
Strobe Talbott
Co-Chair of the Board John Thornton and Trustees
Vernon Jordan and James D. Robinson (FROM LEFT)
Trustee Hazade Doğan Boyner (LEFT) and Vice Chair of the
Board Suzanne Nora Johnson
for the philanthropic investments
that make these contributions to
problem-solving possible.
Second Century Campaign:
Building the Foundation for
Future Impact
Brookings launched its historic
Second Century Campaign in
2013 to bolster the Institution’s
capacity to meet the greatest public
policy challenges of our time. The
Campaign’s key priorities are rooted
in the Institution’s core values of
quality, independence, and impact
and, together, contribute to the longterm
financial health of Brookings
and its ability to achieve real impact
on public policy. The Campaign
seeks to enable Brookings to recruit
and retain the best scholars across
academic disciplines, give the
president and research program vice
presidents the flexibility to respond
to sudden developments and launch
new research efforts, and develop
new impact tools and strategies that
broaden audiences. The Second
Century Campaign is a comprehensive
campaign, so the total
also includes the many generous
contributions to the annual fund,
which provides critical unrestricted
support for Brookings’s operations,
as well as restricted support for specific
projects within the programs.
The Campaign has already had a
tangible impact on Brookings and
its work. For example, Trustee and
Campaign Chair Glenn Hutchins
established the Hutchins Center on
Fiscal & Monetary Policy, bringing
important capacity to improve the
quality and efficiency of fiscal and
monetary policy and increase public
understanding of them. Under the
leadership of Director David Wessel
and Policy Director Louise Sheiner,
the Center’s research and analysis
are making major contributions to
the public economic debate, and the
launch in 2016 of the Fiscal Ship
game has brought these issues to
a wider audience in an interactive,
accessible way.
Four new chairs in the Center for
East Asia Policy Studies endowed
during the course of the Campaign
are enabling Brookings to play a leading
role in helping policymakers and
the public understand the dynamics
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