Expert Type: Guest Author

Dan Breznitz is the Munk chair of innovation studies, and the co-director of the Innovation Policy Lab in the Munk School of the University of Toronto, as well as a fellow of CIFAR, where he co-directs the program on Innovation, Equity, and the Future of Prosperity. Before moving to the University of Toronto, Breznitz spent 8 years as a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology and was the co-founder and CEO of a software company in Israel. He is the author of two award-winning books, Innovation and the State: Political Choice and Strategies for Growth in Israel, Taiwan, and Ireland and The Run of the Red Queen: Government, Innovation, Globalization, and Economic Growth in China. His next book, Innovation in Real Places: Strategies for Prosperity in an Unforgiving World, is coming out in January 2021. Breznitz received his B.A. from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

David Adler is the author of the monograph “The New Economics of Liquidity and Financial Frictions,” published by the CFA Institute Research Foundation. He is the author of Snap Judgment (FT Press) about behavioral economics and producer of the related PBS/NOVA/WGBH documentary “Mind Over Money.” He also produced the PBS documentary “America’s Crisis in Healthcare and Retirement.” Earlier, he co-edited the anthology Understanding American Economic Decline (Cambridge University Press), which looked at the prospects for U.S. growth through the precedent of Great Britain’s comparative economic decline. Adler was educated at Columbia University and Oxford University.

Kathryn Zickuhr is a former labor market senior policy analyst at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Prior to joining Equitable Growth, Kathryn served as the director of policy at the D.C. Policy Center, a local policy research organization in the District of Columbia. Previously, she was a research analyst at the Pew Research Center, where she studied the social impact of technology. Zickuhr holds an M.P.P. from Georgetown University and a B.A. from the University of Kansas.

Shonda Williams is a former events associate at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Prior to joining Equitable Growth, she worked at College Possible—a college access-and-success non-profit organization—where she planned campus visits and other fun and educational events for low-income high school students of color. Prior to that, she completed a mentoring internship at PowerCorps PHL, an environmental workforce development non-profit organization serving disconnected young adults, and also was a program assistant intern at the United Nations Association of Greater Philadelphia. Williams graduated from Drexel University with a B.A. in Political Science.

Abdoulaye Ndiaye is assistant professor of economics at NYU Stern. Professor Ndiaye received a Ph.D. in economics from Northwestern University and a B.S. and M.S. in economics and finance from École Polytechnique in Paris.

Troup Howard is an assistant professor of finance at the University of Utah. His research explores how regional economic outcomes and household finances are affected by the fiscal choices of state and local governments, with particular attention to public debt and taxation. He holds an A.B. in English literature from the University of Chicago, an M.B.A from Northwestern University, and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in finance the from University of California, Berkeley.