Nathan Jensen (2002, Yale Ph.D.) is a professor in the Department of Government at the University of Texas-Austin. He was previously an associate professor in the Department of International Business at George Washington University (2014–2016) and associate professor in the Political Science Department at Washington University in St. Louis (2002–2014). He teaches courses and conducts research on government economic development strategies, firm nonmarket strategies and business-government relations, the politics of oil and natural resources, political risk in emerging markets, trade policy, and international institutions. Not all at once.
He was previously an associate professor in the Department of International Business at George Washington University (2014-2016) and associate professor in the Political Science Department at Washington University in St. Louis (2002-2014).
He teaches courses and conducts research on government economic development strategies, firm non-market strategies and business-government relations, the politics of oil and natural resources, political risk in emerging markets, trade policy, and international institutions. Not all at once.
Michael Kades was the director for markets and competition policy at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. His research focuses on competition and antitrust enforcement, with an emphasis on consumers, wages, equality, and innovation. Prior to joining Equitable Growth, Michael worked as antitrust counsel for Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, where he led efforts to reform antitrust laws. Previously, he spent 20 years investigating and litigating some of the most significant antitrust actions as an attorney at the Federal Trade Commission. During his time at the FTC, he was an attorney advisor to Chairman Jon Leibowitz. He has testified before Congress and the Federal Trade Commission and has been cited by The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other media outlets on antitrust enforcement and competition policy matters. Kades is a graduate of Yale University and the University of Wisconsin Law School.
Michael I. Norton is the Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and a member of Harvard’s Behavioral Insights Group. Prior to joining Harvard Business School, Norton was a fellow at the MIT Media Lab and MIT’s Sloan School of Management. He holds a B.A. in psychology and English from Williams College and a Ph.D. in psychology from Princeton University.
Michael E. Gorman earned a Ph.D. (1981) in Social Psychology at the University of New Hampshire. He served as an STS Program Director at NSF for two years. His research interests include social psychology of science, (Simulating Science, Indiana University Press, 1992); NSF supported work on cognition in the invention of the telephone and engineering ethics (Gorman, Mehalik & Werhane, Ethical and Environmental Challenges to Engineering, Prentice-Hall, 2000). His current research includes: The kind of interdisciplinary trading zones that will be needed for scientists, engineers and other stakeholders to collaborate on the development of new technologies (Trading Zones and Interactional Expertise: Creating New Kinds of Collaboration, MIT Press, 2010).
Michael Ettlinger is the founding director of the Carsey School of Public Policy, joining at its inception in July 2014. Prior to Carsey, Michael held leadership positions at several Washington, DC, think-tanks and engaged in research, policy development and advocacy—primarily in the areas of economic, budget and tax policy. He served as the Senior Director for the Fiscal and Economic Policy Portfolio at the Pew Charitable Trusts, Vice President for Economic Policy at the Center for American Progress for five years, and held positions with the Economic Policy Institute and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. From August to November of 2016 Michael served as the Director of Economic Planning for the Clinton-Kaine transition.
Michael is also an Affiliate Professor of Law at the University of New Hampshire’s School of Law and a Faculty Fellow at the Law School’s Warren B. Rudman Center for Justice, Leadership, and Public Service. Michael holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and a Juris Doctor from American University
Maximilian Hell is a Senior Data Scientist at Code for America. He holds a B.A. from Sciences Po Paris, an M.Sc. in sociology at Oxford, and a Ph.D. in sociology at Stanford.
Matt Markezich is a senior associate at Red Ventures. He previously was a research assistant at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. He graduated from Kent State University with a B.A. in economics and geography.
Matthew Hersch is an associate professor of the history of science at Harvard University. He is an historian of technology whose research examines Cold War-era aerospace, computer, and military technologies and their relationship to labor and popular culture. His first book, Inventing the American Astronaut (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), explores the rise and transformation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s human spaceflight program during the 1960s and 1970s, analyzing spacefarers as a new kind of engineer-manager in a society increasingly defined by technologies of automation and control. Hersch received his S.B. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his J.D. from New York University School of Law, and a William Penn Fellowship from the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned his A.M. and Ph.D. in the history and sociology of science.
Matthew Rognlie is an assistant professor of economics at Northwestern University and a faculty research fellow at the NBER. Prior to that, he was a fellow in the international economics section of the Department of Economics at Princeton University. His research interests are in macroeconomics, inequality, and international finance. Rognlie holds a B.S. in economics and mathematics from Duke University and a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Marshall Steinbaum is a former research economist at the Center for Equitable Growth. Prior to joining Equitable Growth he earned a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago Department of Economics in 2014 and a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Oxford University in 2005.
