Abby M.
McCloskey
Columnist, Economist, McCloskey Policy LLC
Abby M. McCloskey is founder and principal of McCloskey Policy LLC, a research and consulting firm serving business and political leaders across the country. She is a columnist for Bloomberg and the Dallas Morning News. She hosts the Beyond Talking Points podcast. She is a nonresident fellow in the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution.
Most recently, McCloskey directed the Convergence Collaborative on Supports for Working Families, bringing together ideologically diverse family policy leaders across sectors for a multi-year effort to better support families.
McCloskey also has served as the domestic policy director on multiple presidential campaigns. She is widely published, with her work featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Times, the Free Press, National Affairs, Politico, The Dispatch, The Hill, Forbes, National Review and others.
McCloskey holds an M.S. in Applied Economics from Johns Hopkins University.
