BiographyDr. Alperovitz was previously Harrison Research Professor in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland and became the first Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy in July 1999. He is one of the founding principals of The Democracy Collaborative. He also oversees the Project on General Disarmament and is one of the founders of the Committee for the Political Economy of the Good Society (PEGS). Dr. Alperovitz also serves as President of the National Center for Economic and Security Alternatives. Previously he was a Fellow of King's College at Cambridge University, a founding Fellow of the Institute of Politics at Harvard University, a Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies, a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution, and a Guest Professor at Notre Dame University. He has also served as a Legislative Director in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, and as a Special Assistant in the Department of State. Earlier he was President of the Center for Community Economic Development, Co-Director of The Cambridge Institute, and President of the Center for the Study of Public Policy. Dr Alperovitz was a Marshall Scholar and a Guggenheim Fellow; and was one of five specially designated Phi Beta Kappa Fellows selected at the time the national bicentennial commemoration.