Riley Ohlson is vice president for federal affairs at the Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM). Prior to joining AAM, Ohlson served as the economic policy fellow for Sen. Chris Coons (Delaware), handling issues related to manufacturing, innovation and competitiveness. In addition to coordinating the senator’s Manufacturing Jobs for America initiative, Ohlson helped spearhead the formation of the Competitiveness Caucus, a bipartisan forum to identify opportunities for the government to boost the American economy. Previously, Ohlson was a Robert Bosch Foundation Fellow in Germany, studying the German economic model and German manufacturing through placements at IG Metall, Europe’s largest manufacturing union, and in the Department of Economic and Social Policy at the country’s oldest political foundation, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.
