Mary Graham

Mary GrahamMary Graham co-directs the Transparency Policy Project. Graham’s research focuses on the politics of information, information strategies to improve public health and safety, new trends in environmental policy, and the history of government secrecy in the United States. Graham is the author of Democracy by Disclosure (Brookings/Governance Institute, 2002). That book examines the politics and effectiveness of three important controversial disclosure systems, nutritional labelling, toxic chemical disclosure, and disclosure of medical errors, and suggests how the architecture of such systems influences their effectiveness in improving health and safety. Graham is also the author of The Morning After Earth Day (Brookings/Governance Institute, 1999) which argues that a new generation of environmental problems calls for new policy approaches. Graham has written for the Atlantic Monthly, the Financial Times, Environment magazine, Issues in Science and Technology, and other publications. She holds a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center and an undergraduate degree from Harvard-Radcliffe.