Malcolm Bush Senior Advisor

Malcolm Bush is Senior Advisor at Woodstock Institute and served as President from 1992 to 2008. He is also a research fellow at the Chapin Hall Center at the University of Chicago.  He has directed research, policy and strategy projects on community reinvestment and economic development in the U.S. and other countries; access to capital, credit, and other financial services; financial asset building strategies; the deceptive impact of credit card terms and conditions; monitoring financial institution performance; discrimination in the home buying process; community development financial institutions; and the economic development potential of social service organizations. He sits on the boards of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, the Coalition of Community Development Financial Institutions, the Chicago Low-Income Housing Trust Fund, and chairs the board of the Financial Markets Center. He is also a board member of the International Center for Research and Policy on Childhood (CIESPI) at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He has served a three year term on the Consumer Advisory Council of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board where he chaired the bank regulation committee.

From 1987 to 1992 he was senior vice-president of a statewide child advocacy group where he directed research, and policy development on urban educational reform, state tax reform, and child welfare reform. Between 1979 and 1987 Malcolm was a regular faculty member at the University of Chicago, teaching social policy and research methods and writing about child welfare policy. His policy and research writings include the book Families in Distress: Public, Private, and Civic Responses (University of California Press).

Other positions include an appointment as assistant professor of urban affairs and education at Northwestern University, and a policy appointment in the criminal law division of the Department of State for Home Affairs in London. He holds a BA in modern history from Oxford University, an MA in American history and economics from the University of Pennsylvania, and Ph.D. in social psychology and urban policy from Northwestern University.

Name

Email

Message Title

Message

= Required