DEAR MR. PRESIDENT

The Baker Institute strives to provide practical recommendations and relevant research to policymakers. With this goal in mind, the institute's fellows and scholars offer their recommendations for the Obama administration. These suggestions run the gamut from science to foreign policy.

Download the transition papers in a single document here (3.8 MB).

Read the individual Baker Institute transition papers below:

•  A Letter to the Incoming President
  The Honorable Edward P. Djerejian, Founding Director of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy
•  Maximizing NASA's Potential in Flight and on the Ground
  George Abbey, Baker Botts Senior Fellow in Space Policy; Neal Lane, Ph.D., Senior Fellow in Science and Technology Policy; John Muratore, Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Rice University, and Research Associate Professor, The University of Tennessee Space Institute
  
•  U.S.-Russia Relations
  Joe Barnes, Bonner Means Baker Fellow
•  Information Technology Policy
  Christopher Bronk, Ph.D., Fellow in Technology, Society and Public Policy
•  Economic Policy
  John W. Diamond, Ph.D., Edward A. and Hermena Hancock Fellow in Tax Policy; Leslie Countryman, Senior Staff Researcher, Tax and Expenditure Policy
• The U.S. Health Cost Crisis
  Vivian Ho, Ph.D., James A. Baker III Institute Chair in Health Economics
•  U.S. Gasoline Policy
  Amy Myers Jaffe, Wallace S. Wilson Fellow in Energy Studies; Kenneth B. Medlock III, Ph.D., Fellow in Energy Studies
•  Science and Technology
  Neal Lane, Ph.D., Senior Fellow in Science and Technology Policy; Kirstin Matthews, Ph.D., Fellow in Science and Technology Policy
• Needle Exchange Programs
  William Martin, Ph.D., Harry and Hazel Chavanne Senior Fellow in Religion and Public Policy
• Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research
  Kirstin Matthews, Ph.D., Fellow in Science and Technology Policy; Neal Lane, Ph.D., Senior Fellow in Science and Technology Policy