Claud Anderson is an African American economist, author, and political scientist who has written extensively on race relations, inner city poverty, and minority business enterprise. He is the president of the National Policy Group, a Washington, D.C.-based consulting firm. Anderson was born in 1948 in Houston, Texas. After graduating from high school, he attended college at Tuskegee University in Alabama where he earned a bachelor's degree in economics. He then went on to earn a master's degree and Ph.D. in political science from Howard University also located in Washington D.C..
Anderson began his career as an assistant professor at Maryland's Bowie State University before becoming a tenured professor of political science at Howard University where he taught for 15 years. In 1993 he resigned from his position at Howard to pursue writing and consulting full time. Since then he has authored several books including Black Labor White Wealth: The Search for Power and Economic Justice (1996), PowerNomics: The National Plan to Empower Black America (2002), and most recently Renewing Black Leadership for the 21st Century (2015).
In addition to his work as an author and consultant, Anderson is also the founder of two organizations: The Harvest Institute which is dedicated to generating new ideas and innovative approaches for addressing the social and economic needs of black Americans And the National Policy Alliance which is a broad-based black think tank designed to address critical national issues impacting Blacks.