Will Straw
Fellow
Expertise: Globalization, trade, economics
Will Straw is a fellow at American Progress and the founding editor of LeftFootForward.org, a British political blog for progressives and the sister site of ThinkProgress.org. He worked at CAP as Associate Director for Economic Growth from 2008-09 and primarily covered innovation policy and globalization but also looked in detail at the global economic crisis and models of global economic governance.
Prior to working at CAP, Will was a U.S.-U.K. Fulbright Scholar earning a master’s in public administration from Columbia University. He spent four years at Her Majesty’s Treasury working on growth and enterprise policy. Prior to that he was president of the Oxford University Student Union.