Kevin Klowden is the Executive Director of the Milken Institute’s California Center and a Managing Economist at the Institute. Curtis S. Chin is a Trustee of World Education Services of New York and a former U.S. Ambassador to the Asian Development Bank, serving under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
As we live in an increasingly interconnected, global economy, numerous factors directly affect a state’s global competitiveness. In the case of California, these factors are