Joel S. Yudken, Ph.D. is principal and founder of High Road Strategies LLC, an economic policy research, analysis, assessment, and design consultancy that focuses on the intersection of manufacturing, energy, economic and workforce development issues. In a career spanning over four decades, he has held a wide range of professional positions in labor, government, academia, industry, and public interest organizations, including sectoral economist and technology policy analyst at the AFL-CIO, and manufacturing policy analyst at the AFL-CIO Industrial Union Council (IUC).