Ronald B. Mincy is the Maurice V. Russell professor of social policy and social work practice at the Columbia University School of Social Work and a co-principal investigator of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study and Paternal Health Project, a NICHD-funded project addressing depression among African American fathers. He has published widely on the effects of income security policy on poverty, family formation, child well-being, responsible fatherhood, and the urban underclass. His most recent book, Failing Our Fathers, published by Oxford University Press, examines the growth and diversification of vulnerable nonresident fathers and the policy reforms needed to facilitate greater financial support and father engagement. He is the winner of the Society for Social Work Research 2021 Social Policy Research Award. He came to Columbia University from the Ford Foundation, where he served as a senior program officer and developed the Strengthening Fragile Families Initiative. SFFI grantees have since leveraged federal funds for a 22-year birth cohort study and a 10-site demonstration project, which continue to inform research, policy, and practice about the role of fathers in the lives of children today. Mincy’s undergraduate and graduate training in economics were at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Adam Jorring
Adam Jorring is an assistant professor of finance at the Boston College Carroll School of Management. He studies household and firm behavior in consumer credit markets, focusing on how competition, technology, and behavioral biases affect the pricing and allocation of credit. Jorring earned his Ph.D. in financial economics at the University of Chicago’s Department of Economics and Booth School of Business.
Greg Buchak
Greg Buchak is an assistant professor of finance at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is interested in issues related to financial technology, financial intermediation, consumer finance, and the interplay between the evolving industrial organization of the financial sector, regulation, and technological progress. Buchak earned his Ph.D. in financial economics at the University of Chicago’s Department of Economics and Booth School of Business. He also received a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School.
Mireia Gine
Mireia Giné is an associate professor in the Financial Management Department of IESE Business School. Giné specializes in corporate governance, executive compensation, mergers, and acquisitions. Currently, she investigates how common ownership of institutional shareholders impacts the corporate decisions of companies in their portfolio. Her research has been published in leading finance journals, and she is the recipient of several international prizes, including the Brattle Prize. Prior to joining IESE, Giné worked for more than a decade at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School as director of research at Wharton Research Data Services, a global financial reference platform serving more than 450 academic and financial institutions. She currently directs the group’s international operations. Giné has a B.A. in economics and a master’s degree in economics from Pompeu Fabra University. She received her doctorate from the University of Barcelona after several years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania.
Bruno Pellegrino
Bruno Pellegrino is an assistant professor of finance at the University of Maryland’s Smith School of Business. His research is in (international) finance and macroeconomics, with a secondary interest in industrial organization. His work on general equilibrium oligopoly recently won the Best Corporate Finance Paper Prize at the Western Finance Association meeting and the Best Job Market Paper Award from the European Economic Association. Pellegrino received his Ph.D. in business economics from the University of California, Los Angeles Anderson School of Management in December 2020. He holds an M.Sc. in finance and economics from the London School of Economics and a B.Sc. in international economics from Bocconi University in Italy. Previously, he worked as a global macro strategy analyst at Credit Suisse and as a predoctoral research fellow at the University of Chicago. Pellegrino currently teaches undergraduate international finance at the University of Maryland. His research has been covered by Bloomberg, The Washington Post, Barron’s, and Il Corriere della Sera. He is a native of Italy.
Martin Schmalz
Martin Schmalz is a tenured associate professor of finance at Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford. He holds a graduate degree (Dipl.-Ing.) in mechanical engineering from the Universität Stuttgart and a M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University. He co-authored The Business of Big Data: How to Create Lasting Value in the Age of AI and was featured as one of the “40 under 40” best business school professors worldwide at the age of 33. He has been invited to present to regulators and policymakers across the globe, including the U.S. Department of Justice, the White House Council of Economic Advisers, the European Commission, European Parliament, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, various central banks, and at universities across the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia. His prize-winning research focuses on corporate governance, financial economics, and strategy. It has been published in The Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and Review of Financial Studies, and was covered by The New York Times, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Bloomberg, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Forbes, Fortune, Handelsblatt, and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, among others.
Miguel Antón
Miguel Antón is an associate professor in the Department of Financial Management at IESE Business School. He received his undergraduate and master’s degrees in economics from the University of Navarra. He holds an M.Sc. in finance and economics from CEMFI. He received his Ph.D. degree in finance from the London School of Economics and is currently a research affiliate of the Financial Markets Group. Antón’s principal areas of academic and research activity include empirical asset pricing, the impact of institutional trading in asset prices, mutual fund performance, contagion in credit markets, and determinants of systemic risk. Before his academic career, Antón worked for the Bank of New York and for BBVA in the research department.
Louphou Coulibaly
Louphou Coulibaly is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research focuses on international finance and macroeconomics, with an emphasis on the design of monetary policy and macroprudential policies. Coulibaly received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Montreal and his M.Sc. in economics and statistics from ENSEA (Côte d’Ivoire). From 2019–2021, Coulibaly was an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh.
Corey Shdaimah
Corey Shdaimah is Daniel Thursz distinguished professor of social justice at the University of Maryland School of Social Work and academic coordinator for the M.S.W./J.D. and M.S.W./M.P.P. dual degree programs. Her research examines policy implementation with a focus on child care, dependency court, and street-based sex work. Shdaimah is co-author, with Elizabeth Palley, of In Our Hands: The Struggle for US Child Care and (with Palley and Shannon Lane) Social Policy in a Changing World. Her peer-reviewed publications on child care policy appear in Children & Youth Services Review, Journal of Policy Practice, Early Education and Development, International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, and Community, Work & Family. She has provided commentary on family and provider struggles in media, including NPR’s All Things Considered and The Washington Post. Shdaimah holds an LL.B. from Tel Aviv University, an LL.M. from University of Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research.
Bweikia Steen
Bweikia Steen is an associate professor of education at George Mason University, where she also serves as the early childhood internship coordinator. Her research focuses on exploring developmentally appropriate practices that promote social, emotional, and academic success among children of color during the early years. Steen received her doctorate of education in international and multicultural education from the University of San Francisco.