Glenn C. Loury was the founding director of the Institute on Race and Social Division at Boston University, and he has previously taught economics at Harvard and Northwestern Universities and at the University of Michigan. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and served for many years as a contributing editor at The New Republic magazine.

As an academic economist, Professor Loury has made scholarly contributions to the fields of welfare economics, game theory, industrial organization, natural resource economics and the economics of income distribution. He has published nearly 200 essays on the subjects of racial inequality and social policy. His One by One, From the Inside Out: Essays and Reviews on Race and Responsibility in America(The Free Press, 1995) won the 1996 American Book Award and the 1996 Christianity Today Book Award. His most recent book is Ethnicity, Social Mobility and Public Policy: Comparing the US and the UK(co-editor, Cambridge University Press, 2005).