Steve Crawford
Deputy Director, Metropolitan Policy Program
Brookings Institution

Steve Crawford is the Deputy Director and Senior Advisor for State Policy at the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program. Previously he served as director of the Social, Economic and Workforce Programs Division at the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices; vice president of the National Policy Association; executive director of the Governor’s Workforce Investment Board in Maryland; a senior research fellow and lecturer at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Affairs; and executive director of research centers in College Park, MD and Cambridge, MA. He also taught at Bates College for several years, and served as an assistant dean at the University of Pennsylvania. His publications include Technical Workers in an Advanced Society (Cambridge University Press, 1989), parts of which have been translated into French and German.

Crawford holds a Ph.D. in economic and political sociology from Columbia University, a Masters of Government Administration from the Wharton Business School (U. of PA), and a B.A. from Cornell University. He is also a graduate of Leadership Maryland. He served in the U.S. Army for three years, including one as an infantry officer in Vietnam. That experience prepared him well for the two years he served as an elected member of the Frederick County Board of Education and for this two unsuccessful campaigns for Congress. He lives in Derwood, MD with his wife, Dr. Liliane Floge, and their daughter, Pascal.