Stuart Butler

Stuart Butler
Born	1947 Shrewsbury, United Kingdom
Nationality	British-American
Alma mater	University of St. Andrews
Years active	1979–present
Employer	The Brookings Institution
Website	www.brookings.edu/experts/butlers

Stuart Butler (born 1947 in Shropshire, England) is a Senior Fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution. Until 2014 he was Director of the Center for Policy Innovation at The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think-tank in Washington, D.C. He is a health care analyst and commentator, and he has also written extensively about urban policy and welfare, credited with introducing the idea of urban enterprise zones to the United States. Butler is an adjunct professor at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute.

Butler was raised in Shropshire, England and emigrated to the United States in 1975. He holds bachelor’s degrees in physics and mathematics, a master’s degree in economics and a doctorate in American economic history from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.

Butler has been at Brookings since the Fall of 2014. He joined The Heritage Foundation in 1979 as a policy analyst specializing in health care and urban issues. After visiting tenements in the South Bronx and Washington, D.C. to discuss with residents how best to address problems with public housing, Butler published a paper for Heritage that introduced the idea of Urban Enterprise Zones in the United States. The idea caught the attention of many politicians, including Jack Kemp and later the Reagan Administration. By the mid-1990s more than 30 states and the District of Columbia had instituted enterprise zones in depressed urban areas.

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