The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, DC. The mission is to conduct in-depth research that leads to new ideas for solving problems facing society at the local, national and global level.

Brookings brings together more than 300 leading experts in government and academia from all over the world who provide the highest quality research, policy recommendations, and analysis on a full range of public policy issues.

The Brookings Institution traces its beginnings to 1916, when a group of leading reformers founded the Institute for Government Research (IGR), the first private organization devoted to analyzing public policy issues at the national level.