Miriam Pemberton

Miriam Pemberton is currently a Research Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. Her research focuses on overall federal budget priorities and demilitarizing our foreign policy and our economy. Formerly she served first as editor and then as director of the National Commission for Economic Conversion and Disarmament. With Lawrence Korb of the Center for American Progress, she heads up a task force of security experts that produces the annual “Unified Security Budget for the United States.” She produces the comparison of federal spending on military and climate security. She co-chairs the NGO Budget Priorities Working Group. She has testified in Congress on the economic consequences of going to war with Iraq. She has appeared on CNN, Fox News, and “All Things Considered”on NPR. Her commentaries have aired on Marketplace, and her writings in the Baltimore Sun, the San Diego Union-Tribune, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the Richmond Times, The Nation and other national publications. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.

Areas of expertise: military spending, overall budget priorities and peace economy transitions.