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Rachel Lipson is a Research Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, a Resident Scholar at the Aspen Institute Economic Strategy Group, and a non-resident senior fellow at Brookings Metro. Her current research focuses on next-generation jobs created by frontier technologies, many of which do not require a four-year degree. From 2023 to 2025, Rachel served as a Senior Policy Advisor at the U.S. Department of Commerce’s CHIPS Program Office, where she helped launch the workforce strategy for the $50 billion federal investment to reshore semiconductor manufacturing. Prior to joining the federal government, she served as the founding director of the Project on Workforce at Harvard.
Rachel is the co-editor of the 2023 book America’s Hidden Economic Engines and author of the forthcoming Fall ‘26 book The New American Frontier. Her writing has appeared in The Boston Globe, Washington Post, Newsweek, and The Hill, and her research featured by NPR, Bloomberg, and The Economist. She has held economic policy roles across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors, including at World Bank, JPMorgan Chase, and Year Up. Rachel graduated from Harvard College and holds an MBA and MPP from Harvard. She is a recipient of the Harvard Certificate of Distinction and Excellence in Teaching and the Frederick Fischer Prize.