Ray Boshara is Vice President and Senior Research Fellow at the New America Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based think-tank. He also serves as a senior advisor to New America's Education Policy Program. He founded the Asset Building Program at New America in July 2002 and served as its director until July 2009. He also launched and directed the Next Social Contract Initiative, the Global Assets Project, and the College Savings Initiative at New America.

Boshara has advised the Clinton, George W. Bush and Obama Administrations, presidential candidates, and policymakers worldwide. He has also testified before the U.S. Congress, and given speeches around the world on ownership strategies for the poor, on the U.S. economy, and on the American social contract. He was instrumental in the passage of the Assets for Independence Act in 1998 and the introduction of the ASPIRE Act in 2004, as well as other bi-partisan legislation to build wealth for low-income persons in the U.S.

Boshara has written for The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, and the Brookings Institution, and has been interviewed television and radio programs across the U.S. His book, The Next Progressive Era, co-authored with New America fellow Phillip Longman, was published in April 2009.

Boshara serves as an advisor to the Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Economic Mobility Project of the Pew Charitable Trusts, and the Food & Community Initiative of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. He is a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance and serves on many national commissions, including the Commission on Thrift. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Center for Social Development at Washington University in St. Louis, where he now lives.

Prior to joining the New America Foundation in 2002, Boshara worked for the Select Committee on Hunger and Congressman Tony P. Hall in the U.S. Congress, the United Nations in Rome, CFED, and Ernst & Young. He is a graduate of Ohio State University, Yale Divinity School, and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. He was named a Littauer Fellow at Harvard for outstanding scholarship and leadership, and was selected in 2002 by Esquire magazine as one of America's Best and Brightest.