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Making Workforce Housing Affordable: The High Cost of Falling Behind

It’s difficult to pinpoint numbers in a population that is constantly on the move. But on a single night in 2024, when US state and local authorities nationwide counted their populations and reported the results to the US Department of...
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Blair Smith

Senior Director, Milken Institute Finance
Blair Smith is senior director at Milken Institute Finance, with more than 20 years of financial services and capital markets experience. He leads the Access to Capital and strategic innovative financing initiatives to enhance economic and social impact.
Congressional Testimony

American Innovation and the Future of Digital Assets: From Blueprint to a Functional Framework

WASHINGTON, DC (June 4, 2025) — Today, Michael Piwowar, Executive Vice President of Finance at the Milken Institute, provided testimony before the US House Committee on Agriculture hearing on American Innovation and the Future of Digital...
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Michael Piwowar, PhD

Senior Advisor, Finance
Michael S. Piwowar, PhD, is a senior advisor at the Milken Institute. He was previously the executive vice president of Milken Institute Finance and served as a commissioner at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) from August 15, 2013, to July 6, 2018.
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It’s Not Too Late for a Hollywood Reset

“Hollywood is in trouble.” It is a phrase that has been echoed through the decades—from the scandals of the 1920s to the advent of television in the 1950s, the rise of cable and videocassette recorders in the 1970s and ‘80s, and now, in the...
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Kevin Klowden

Formerly Milken Institute
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