Expert Type: Guest Author

Marie T. Mora

Marie T. Mora is associate vice chancellor for strategic initiatives and professor of economics at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. She received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of New Mexico and a Ph.D. from Texas A&M University.

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.