Jeff Ferry is the Chief Economist at the Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA). His 2019 paper, “Decoupling from China: an economic analysis of the impact on the US economy of a permanent tariff on Chinese imports,” won the Mennis Award as Most Outstanding Paper of the year from the National Association of Business Economists. He holds economics degrees from Harvard and the London School of Economics. He lives in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife and an Australian shepherd, Bindi.