Eleanor Brown

Eleanor Brown is an Associate Professor of Law at the George Washington University School of Law. She was previously the Reginald F. Lewis Fellow at Harvard Law School. Ms. Brown was a Senior Executive at the Caribbean Investment Fund, L.P., the first pan-Caribbean private equity fund in the British Commonwealth Caribbean and was Chairman of the Trade Board, the government entity with historical responsibility for aspects of Jamaica's importation policies. She also has served on the Boards of several publicly traded Caribbean companies. Eleanor writes about the intersection of U.S. immigration and global development policies. She has been published in the Yale Law Journal, the New York University Law Review, the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. Eleanor is a graduate of Brown University and Yale Law School, as well as a former Rhodes Scholar.

The focus of Eleanor's New America fellowship is the proposal of a new temporary-worker program that would allot visas—treated as transferable licenses—to nations on the basis of Washington's development assistance priorities.