Stephen Machin is professor of economics and director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. He holds a B.A. in economics from Wolverhampton Polytechnic and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Warwick.
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Sarah Jane Glynn
Sarah Jane Glynn is a senior advisor for the Women’s Bureau, Department of Labor. She is a labor sociologist and policy analyst with experience working at the national, state, and local level. Prior to joining the Department of Labor, Glynn was a senior fellow with the Women’s Initiative at the Center for American Progress, where she previously held the role of director of women’s economic policy. Glynn holds a bachelor’s degree in women’s studies from UCLA and a Ph.D. in sociology from Vanderbilt University.
Rucker C. Johnson
Rucker C. Johnson is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy in the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. His work considers the role of poverty and inequality in affecting life chances. His graduate and postdoctoral training is in labor and health economics. He holds a B.A. from Morehouse College, and an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan—all in economics.
Salvatore Morelli
Salvatore Morelli is a visiting scholar at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford and an associate member of Nuffield College at Oxford, as well as a research associate at the Center for the Study of Economics and Finance.
Robynn Cox
Robynn Cox is an assistant professor in the School of Public Policy at the University of California, Riverside. Her research interests include the fields of economics of crime, health economics, and labor economics, and are primarily focused on understanding the social and economic consequences of mass incarceration. Prior to her appointment at UC Riverside, she was an assistant professor at the University of Southern California School of Social Work, an assistant professor at Spelman College, and a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Economics at Duke University. She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Georgia State University, where she was awarded the Andrew Young Fellowship. She completed her undergraduate studies at Duke University, where she obtained a dual A.B. in economics and Spanish and Latin American studies.
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Ronald Schettkat
Ronald Schettkat is a professor of economics at the University of Wuppertal.
Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
Reuven S. Avi-Yonah is the Irwin I. Cohn Professor of Law at the University of Michigan. He also is a member of the American Law Institute, a fellow of the American Bar Foundation and the American College of Tax Counsel, and an international research fellow at Oxford University’s Centre for Business Taxation. He holds a B.A. from Hebrew University and three additional degrees from Harvard University: an A.M. in history, a Ph.D. in history, and a J.D.
Peter K. Enns
Peter K. Enns is a professor in the Department of Government and the Brooks School of Public Policy, Robert S. Harrison Director of the Cornell Center for Social Sciences, and executive director of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. He is also co-founder and chief data scientist at Verasight. His research and teaching focus on public opinion and political representation, mass incarceration and the legal system, and data science. He holds a B.A. from Colorado College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Phai Phongthiengtham
Phai Phongthiengtham is the Data Science Manager at IBM. Phai holds a Ph.D. in Econometrics and Quantitative Economics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Pedro Spivakovsky-Gonzalez
Pedro Spivakovsky-Gonzalez was a junior economist at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Prior to joining the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, he was a Gates Scholar at the University of Cambridge, where he completed an MPhil in development studies. He has worked as a John Gardner Fellow and as a research economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 2010 with degrees in economics and political economy.