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

Furthermore, it brings together leading experts in government and academia from all over the world, rooted in open-minded inquiry and representing diverse points of view, who provide the highest quality research, policy recommendations, and analysis. Similarly, research topics cover a full range of public policy issues in economics, foreign policy, development, governance, and metropolitan policy.