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.
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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.
Patrick Sharkey
Patrick Sharkey is professor and chair of the Department of Sociology at New York University. He is scientific director at Crime Lab New York and is affiliated with NYU’s Robert F. Wagner School for Public Service. At NYU, Sharkey teaches undergraduate courses on urban policy, crime, and violence, and doctoral courses in statistics and criminology.
Nick Bunker
Nick Bunker is the head of research, North America, for Indeed.com. He was previously a senior policy analyst at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Bunker holds a B.S.F.S. in international economics from Georgetown University.
Neviana Petkova
Neviana Petkova is the Director of Business and International Taxation at the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
Nathan Jensen
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
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 Norton
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.