Steven Klees

Steven J. Klees is an international education and development specialist with more than 45 years of experience in economics, public policy, education, and international development. He earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University in Economics and Public Policy, and has spent decades researching and writing about politics, economics,
education, and social justice.
Klees has held faculty positions at Cornell University, Stanford University, Florida State University, and the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte in Brazil. He is now a University Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the University of Maryland, where his work continues to influence scholars and policymakers around the world.
In The Conscience of a Progressive, Klees offers a rigorous progressive critique of capitalism, education policy, health care, the climate crisis, and war. Balancing fairness toward conservative and liberal viewpoints with a clear progressive argument for structural alternatives, the book has been praised as essential reading for anyone engaged
with politics, economics, and education today.
Klees lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, where he continues to write and comment on politics, economics, and education.