Sergio Ocampo

Sergio Ocampo is an assistant professor of economics at Western University in London, Ontario. Professor Ocampo received a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota.

Katherine Policelli

Katherine Policelli was the External Relations intern at Equitable Growth in the summer of 2019.

Cesar Perez

Cesar Perez is a research associate at the Public Policy Institute of California Higher Education Center. Prior to joining PPIC, Cesar was a research assistant at the San Diego Housing Commission and a Family Economic Security intern at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. He holds a Masters in Public Policy from the School of Global Policy and Strategy at University of California, San Diego and a BA in economics from University of California, Los Angeles.

Emma Liebman

Emma Liebman is pursuing an M.P.H. at the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in history at Yale University in 2017. She currently works at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, where she focuses on opioid overdose prevention and control. Beyond substance use, her interests include criminal justice and family and medical leave.

Aysegül Sahin

Ayşegül Şahin is the Richard J. Gonzalez Regents Chair in Economics at the University of Texas at Austin and an adviser to the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Şahin received her bachelor’s and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, and her M.A and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Rochester.

Benjamin Pugsley

Benjamin Pugsley is the Robert and Irene Bozzone Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Notre Dame. He holds a B.A. in economics from Columbia University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago.

Steven C. Salop

Steven Salop is a Professor of Economics and Law at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C., where he teaches antitrust law and economics. His research and consulting focuses on antitrust, competition, and regulation. He has written numerous articles in various areas of antitrust and competition—including exclusionary conduct, mergers, and joint ventures—many of which take a modern “Post-Chicago” approach. These include a series of articles analyzing vertical mergers and other exclusionary and collusive conduct.

Nancy L. Rose

Nancy L. Rose is the Head of the Department of Economics and Charles P. Kindleberger Professor of Applied Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where her teaching and research focus on industrial organization, competition policy, and the economics of regulation. She served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economic Analysis in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice from 2014–2016, and directed the National Bureau of Economic Research program in Industrial Organization from its creation in 1991 until her appointment to the Department of Justice. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Distinguished Fellow of the Industrial Organization Society.

Her research includes analyses of economic regulation and firm behavior, labor rent-sharing and determinants of executive pay, and merger policy. Her edited volume Economic Regulation and Its Reform: What Have We Learned? (NBER, 2014) describes the regulatory landscapes and lessons learned from deregulation and regulatory restructuring across eight broad industries, and the interplay of competition policy and economic regulation.

Professor Rose received her Ph.D. in Economics from MIT and an A.B. in Economics and Government from Harvard University. Her accomplishments have been recognized by numerous fellowships over her career, including those from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Hoover Institution, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and National Science Foundation. Her professional service includes membership on the American Antitrust Institute Advisory Board, terms as Vice President and Executive Committee member of the American Economic Association (AEA), and independent directorships on both public and non-profit boards.