Michael S. Barr is the Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of Public Policy in U-M's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. He also is the Roy F. and Jean Humphrey Proffitt Professor of Law, faculty director of the U-M Center on Finance, Law, and Policy, and a professor of public policy at the Ford School.
A member of the Law School faculty since 2001, he teaches Financial Regulation and International Finance, and he cofounded both the International Transactions Clinic and the Detroit Neighborhood Entrepreneurs Project of the Community and Economic Development Clinic. He is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.