We are honored to have Michael Linden, as this year's speaker for Economy for All 2027!

Michael Linden is a senior policy fellow at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth and teaches at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy. He has nearly 20 years of experience in economic policy across government, think tanks, and advocacy organizations. Linden served in the Biden Administration as a senior advisor and then executive associate director at the White House Office of Management and Budget. He previously served as a senior advisor on the Senate Budget Committee and the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee under Sen. Patty Murray. He was the founding executive director of the Groundwork Collaborative, the inaugural managing director for policy and research at The Hub Project, and managing director of economic policy at the Center for American Progress. He recently ran the Families Over Billionaires campaign opposing the 2025 budget bill that cut taxes for the rich and corporations while cutting Medicaid and Food Stamps. He holds a B.A. from Brown University and a Master of Public Policy from UC Berkeley.