Peter Q. Blair is on the faculty at the Harvard Graduate School of Education where he co-directs the Project on Workforce. He serves as a faculty research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and the principal investigator of the BE-Lab—a research group with partners from Harvard University, Clemson University, and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His group’s research focuses on the link between the future of work and the future of education, labor market discrimination, occupational licensing, and residential segregation. Blair received his Ph.D. in applied economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, his M.Sc. in theoretical physics from Harvard University, and his B.Sc. in physics and mathematics from Duke University.
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Piotr Dworczak
Piotr Dworczak is an assistant professor of economics at Northwestern University. He received bachelor’s degrees in mathematics and economics at the University of Warsaw and the Warsaw School of Economics, respectively, and then completed his Ph.D. at Stanford Graduate School of Business. He studies mechanism and information design, with specific focuses in market design, questions of redistribution, and the role of information in financial markets.
Peter J. Fugiel
Peter Fugiel is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations. His research examines scheduling and hours of work as a lens on job quality, social policy, and labor market inequality. He is working on a book about the making of fair workweek laws with support from the National Science Foundation. He has a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago.
Maningbe Keita Fakeye
Mani Keita Fakeye is a health equity research manager at Deloitte. She is also a faculty instructor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Fakeye’s research goals are to improve health and economic outcomes for older adults and their caregivers and to translate her research findings into equitable policy changes. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Health Policy and Management at Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health. Prior to her graduate studies, she earned her bachelor’s degree in public health studies at Johns Hopkins University and worked as a research assistant at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
Ravi Jagadeesan
Ravi Jagadeesan is an assistant professor at Stanford University. His research interests are in market design, theoretical public finance, and macroeconomic policy, with a particular focus on the role of market imperfections and optimal taxation. He received his A.B. in mathematics from Harvard College and his A.M. in statistics and his Ph.D. in business economics from Harvard University.
Ratib Ali
Ratib M. Ali is an associate at the Brattle Group. He is a competition economist with a focus in analyzing antitrust claims rising from mergers and firm conduct. His work spans the healthcare, technology, and aviation industries. Prior, he was an economic analyst at the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office in the Antitrust Division. He holds a B.S. in economics from BRAC University in Bangladesh, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Boston College.
David Berger
David Berger is an associate professor of economics at Duke University. His research interests are empirical macro/monetary economics, the influence of housing on the macroeconomy, and labor and finance. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University and graduated from Swarthmore College with a B.A. in economics and history.
Heather Hill
Heather D. Hill is an associate professor at the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington. Her research examines how public and workplace policies influence family economic circumstances and child well-being in low-income families. She has studied the prevalence and consequences of economic instability, particularly income variability, during childhood. As an investigator on the Seattle Minimum Wage Study, Hill led a longitudinal, qualitative study of workers in Seattle during the implementation of the City’s Minimum Wage Ordinance. She is also leading the analysis of national health data to examine the relationship between state minimum wage levels and adult and child health outcomes. Hill has a Ph.D. in human development and social policy from Northwestern University and a M.A. in public policy from the University of Michigan. At the University of Washington, she is a member of the Executive Board of the Center for the Study of Demography and Ecology and of the Executive Council of the Population Health Initiative, as well as an affiliate of the West Coast Poverty Center.
Mohammad Akbarpour
Mohammad Akbarpour is an associate professor of economics at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business and an associate professor of computer science (by courtesy) at Stanford University. Akbarpour’s research focuses on market design and social networks. Recently, he has worked on problems related to inequality in market design and network targeting with applications in development economics. He is also an instructor at Khan Academy Farsi, teaching hundreds of high-school level video lessons in game theory, physics, calculus, and macroeconomics. He received his Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology and his Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University.
Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat
Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat is the Mallya Professor of Women and Economics at Barnard College, Columbia University, and a nonresident scholar at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. She is the co-leader for Policies and Inequalities of the Columbia University Population Research Center and a member of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine’s Standing Committee on Reproductive Health, Equity, and Society. Her research focuses on the causes and consequences of the intergenerational transmission of poverty and inequality and has examined the effects of social programs, tax policy, labor market regulation, access to reproductive choice, and macroeconomic conditions. Ananat has received numerous awards for her scholarship, including the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, the Russell Sage Foundation Fellowship, the William T. Grant Foundation Fellowship, and the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Work-Family Research. In 2010, she served as senior economist for Labor, Education, and Welfare at the White House Council of Economic Advisers.
Ananat graduated from Williams College summa cum laude in mathematics and political economy, received her Master of Public Policy from the Ford School at the University of Michigan, and earned a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.