Matthew M. Chingos is an Institute fellow at the Urban Institute. He is on leave while serving as a fellow at the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. At Urban, he was previously vice president of the Work, Education, and Labor Division and the founding director of the Center on Education Data and Policy.
Chingos is coauthor of Game of Loans: The Rhetoric and Reality of Student Debt and Crossing the Finish Line: Completing College at America’s Public Universities. He has testified before Congress, and his work has been featured in media outlets such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, and NPR.
Before joining Urban, Chingos was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He received a BA in government and economics and a PhD in government from Harvard University.
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