They investigate specific topics, with the aid of specialist advisers, and have issued some influential reports.
Both were identified by the influential report by the Group of Thirty in 1989.
There he penned influential reports on naval policy and voiced concern about a military threat from Japan in the 1920s.
The latter produced an influential report recommending the clearing of city slums in Dublin.
He was also the chair of a committee that produced an influential report in 2007 reviewing Singapore's legal sector.
The center published an influential report last year that catalogued what is known about the chemical hazards in the area.
He broadcast and published a series of influential reports about the causes and consequences of the global financial crisis.
His two most influential reports were the first two, co-authored with Knoblauch.
The aim is to publish a radical and influential report within the next twelve months.
The Commission produced a number of influential reports.