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Barry Eichengreen

Barry Eichengreen is an American economist and economic historian who holds the title of George C. Pardee & Helen N. Pardee Chair and distinguished professor of economics and political science at the University of California, Berkeley. Additionally, Eichengreen serves as a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and as a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research. In 1997-98 he was senior policy advisor at the International Monetary Fund. He has held Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships and has been a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and the Institute for Advanced Study. He is a regular monthly columnist for Project Syndicate. He has written several books on economics. Eichengreen holds an A.B. University of California, Santa Cruz, an M.A. in economics from Yale University, an M. Phil. in economics from Yale University, an M.A. in history Yale University, and a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University.

Maryam Janani-Flores

Maryam Janani-Flores is a director at the Economic Development Administration. She is a former policy director at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Before Equitable Growth, she spent the prior decade-plus working throughout the research-to-policy pipeline on issues related to supply chains, small businesses, healthcare and public health, labor, and gender. A Texan, Janani-Flores began her career in government advising former U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX), including as policy director on his U.S. Senate campaign, and subsequently served as legislative director to U.S. Reps. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) and Norma Torres (D-CA). Prior to working on Capitol Hill, Janani-Flores worked as a strategy consultant at the social impact firm Dalberg Advisors, a project associate at the University of California, Berkeley’s Center for Effective Global Action, and a research assistant with Innovations for Poverty Action in Kenya. She holds an M.P.A. in economics and public policy from Princeton University and a B.A. in neurobiology from Harvard University.

Michael A. Schultz

Michael Schultz is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas at Austin’s Population Research Center and a recent 2020 Sociology PhD graduate from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

Michelle Holder

Michelle Holder is an associate professor of economics at John Jay College, City University of New York. Previously, she was a distinguished senior fellow at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth from July 2022 to February 2023, and president and CEO of Equitable Growth from September 2021 to July 2022. Her research focuses on the Black community and women of color in the U.S. labor market. Named one of 19 Black economists to watch by Fortune magazine, Holder has authored two books, Afro-Latinos in the U.S. Economy, published in May 2021, and African American Men and the Labor Market during the Great Recession, published in 2017.

Prior to joining CUNY, Holder spent a decade working as an applied economist in the nonprofit and government sectors. She was a senior labor market analyst at the Community Service Society of New York from 2010¬ to 2014, and from 1995 to 1998, she was an associate financial analyst and economist at the Office of the New York State Comptroller. Holder also served as finance director at Dēmos from 1999 to 2006, as part of the founding staff at the organization. Holder earned a Ph.D. and an M.A. in economics from the New School for Social Research, an M.P.A. from the University of Michigan, and a B.A. in economics from Fordham University.