Amy Kaslow

Amy Kaslow is a senior fellow at the Council on Competitiveness, and directs the Council’s efforts to help cultivate an American workforce with the skills urgently needed to compete in an economy characterized by dramatic change. She focuses on the two biggest pressures on joblessness and job generation: the would-be new entrants and the mature, 55 year+ workers intent on remaining in or breaking into the labor market. Kaslow brings a mix of policy, practical experience and contemporary coverage to the Council. She provides on-the-ground technical assistance and coordinates overall policy for the Council’s Workforce and Economy Initiative.

She serves with corporate, labor, education, education, government and community leaders to put into practice the most innovative, scalable, and replicable ways to prepare new graduates for the pipeline of talent. Kaslow is part of a White House working group on STEM education/workplace challenges, and advises business, labor, education, government and non-profit groups, from Junior Achievement, the nation's largest after-school program geared toward workforce readiness through life skills, financial literacy and entrepreneurship training to the Council for Advancement of Adult Literacy.

She advised and wrote for the 21st Century Workforce Commission, a body mandated by Congress to explore ways to boost the number of American workers prepared for information technology jobs. She was a lead writer for the Glenn Commission Report, a blueprint for improving teaching in K-12 schools. Kaslow served as a member of the National Academy of Sciences/National Science Foundation Study Panel examining national workforce data for the United States Census.

She authored the CoC's Winning the Skills Race, the culmination of two years of research and fieldwork on the income and skills gaps among American workers and helped provide the framework for the White House Summit on 21st Century Skills for 21st Century Jobs. She co-authored the Center for Strategic and International Studies study on international labor issues for Detroit’s Group of Seven Jobs Summit, later captured by MIT Press. Kaslow led a “best practice” Washington-based transitional housing program for at-risk families, equipping parents with just-in-time portable job skills essential for higher-wage jobs. As a member of the Aspen Institute Young Leaders Program, she spent two years developing public-private responses tounemployment in the world’s richest countries, and pursued similar work with Oxford’s Ditchley Foundation and Brookings’ United States-Italy Young Leaders Program.

For 25 years, Kaslow has reported on international economic developments, focusing on unemployment caused by downsizing, trade, technological change and massive layoffs; the premium placed on educated and skilled workers, and the related impact on churning in the workforce.
 
A frequent contributor to print, online and broadcast media outlets, Kaslow also writes a blog for The Economist on human capital.

She was the lead economic correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor. She has published features and opinion pieces in The Wall StreetJournal, The Washington Post, The Journal of Commerce, The International Economy (Washington), The Middle East (London), MidEast File (Tel Aviv), MidEast Report (New York), Institutional Investor (New York), Euromoney (London), Infrastructure Finance (New York), World Monitor Magazine (Boston), International Development Review, CEO Magazine, Emerging Markets (New York), European Affairs, Durrell’s Money and Banking (Virginia), The Washington Quarterly, The Jerusalem Star (Amman), Pharaohs (Cairo), Gulf News (Dubai), Metropolis (Jerusalem) and other publications. She was a regular contributor and editorial board member on Europe Magazine (Brussels) and Middle East Insight (Washington).

Her radio broadcast work includes commentary and reporting for Australian Broadcasting, Austrian Broadcasting, the BBC, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, The European Report (Radio Features Corporation), Monitoradio, National Public Radio, Pacific Time, Public Radio International, Radio America and The Voice of America. Her television work includes The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, CNBC, C-Span, and a variety of cable and foreign broadcast shows.

A presidential appointee to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, the governing board of the UnitedStates Holocaust Memorial Museum, she chairs the Governance Committee, chaired the Education Committee and serves on the Executive Committee. Kaslow chaired the Board of Trustees at the Holton-Arms School, one of the nation's preeminent girls schools known for global education, STEM, and the arts. She was the longtime president of the Sinai House Assisted Housing Foundation, which provides fully equipped housing to homeless families and wrap-around services, including case management, parenting classes, financial literacy support, job training and job placement. She served on the board of American Community Partnerships, with economic development projects in severely distressed urban and rural areas. She was the vice chair of the Norwood School, and a trustee of the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington. She served on Moment Magazine's Daniel Pearl Investigative Journalism Initiative Prize Review Panel, and is a member of the Belizean Grove. She manages the Kaslow Family Charitable Trust.

A native of Washington, Kaslow attended the Holton-Arms School. She earned an undergraduate degree from Vassar College, where she studied politics and religion. She did part of her undergraduate work at Universite d’Aix/Marseille. She did graduate work in Middle Eastern affairs abroad and at the NYU-Princeton University Program for Near Eastern Studies.

She is married to Richard Rosetti, a security expert. He leads the Rosetti Group and specializes in corporate investigations and business intelligence. They have two children.