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Mary Graham

Mary Graham co-directs the Transparency Policy Project and is a Research Fellow at the Kennedy School’s Taubman Center . She is also a Visiting Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. . Graham’s research focuses on the use of information strategies to foster social change, the politics of information, innovative approaches to health and safety regulation, and new trends in environmental policy. Graham’s most recent book, Democracy by Disclosure (Brookings/Governance Institute, 2002), makes the case that government-mandated transparency systems have shown great promise in recent years as innovative means of furthering public priorities but also present daunting challenges for government, the private sector, and the public at large. In this book, Graham examines three important systems in the United States, nutritional labeling, disclosure of toxic chemicals, and disclosure of medical errors, and suggests architectural characteristics that contribute to successful transparency systems. In an earlier book, The Morning After Earth Day (Brookings/Governance Institute, 1999), Graham examined new trends in U.S. environmental policy. Graham concluded that the next generation of environmental policies will tackle difficult problems—pollution from mobile sources and small businesses and conservation challenges concerning private lands, for example—that require new approaches. Graham has written for the Atlantic Monthly, Financial Times, Environment magazine, Issues in Science and Technology, the Brookings Review, and other publications. Graham holds a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center and an undergraduate degree from Harvard-Radcliffe. She is a member of the board of directors of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. She is married and the mother of four children.