Rozlyn (Roz) C. Engel is a nonresident scholar in the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where she focuses on global macroeconomic risks, U.S. economic policy (foreign and domestic), and questions facing the economic intelligence community.
Engel has spent nearly two decades at the nexus of economics, national security, and U.S. policy development. From October 2016 to August 2018, she was the senior career executive at the Treasury Department in charge of U.S. macroeconomic analysis. From 2013 to 2016, she was the national intelligence manager and national intelligence officer for economics in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), where she oversaw global economic analysis in support of U.S. national security priorities. Before ODNI, she held several teaching and research positions within the Department of Defense, including at the National Defense University and West Point. Currently, she holds an appointment as professor of the practice in economics at the U.S. Naval Academy. Engel has a PhD in Economics from Columbia University and a MSc in Economic History from the London School of Economics.
Engel also serves as the president of the World Affairs Council of New Jersey, which she founded in 2019.
How can the U.S. and the UK deepen cooperation around the evolving challenges surrounding globalization?
Decades of policy failures have strained the U.S. middle class and now with the coronavirus pandemic, America is at an inflection point. Join Rozlyn Engel, Dan Price, and Jake Sullivan as they discuss how to build a foreign policy agenda that meets the needs of the middle class.
To help expand and sustain America’s middle class, U.S. foreign policy makers need a new agenda that will rebuild trust at home and abroad.
The United States must secure the benefits of a globalized economy while protecting itself from systemic shocks and supporting the economic renewal of middle-class communities.
While the U.S. economy has been growing and unemployment rates have fallen, too many Americans still struggle to sustain a middle-class lifestyle. Are changes to U.S. foreign policy required to better advance the economic well-being of America’s middle class?