Baker Institute

The Baker Institute for Public Policy provides meaningful policy analysis on the most critical challenges facing Texas, the U.S. and the world.

Our mission is to:

Conduct rigorous, data-driven research on critical foreign and domestic issues.

Offer essential data and nonpartisan analysis to inform policymaking.

Convene productive discourse among public and private sector leaders.

Train the next generation of policy researchers and leaders.

The Baker Institute for Public Policy is a non-profit, nonpartisan policy research organization based at Rice University in Houston, Texas.

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