Shanthi Ramnath is a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Ramnath holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan.
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Daphne Chen
Daphne Chen is the managing director at Vega Economics. She received her B.B.A. in Business Administration from National Taiwan University, her M.A. in applied statistics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in economics from the University of Texas at Austin.
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.
John Sabelhaus
John Sabelhaus was a Visiting Scholar at Equitable Growth from 2019 – 2020.
John Sabelhaus is a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. and adjunct research professor at the University of Michigan. He was a Visiting Scholar at Equitable Growth from 2019 – 2020. Prior to that, he was assistant director in the Division of Research and Statistics at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. His roles at the Federal Reserve Board included oversight of the Microeconomic Surveys and Household and Business Spending sections, including primary responsibility for the Survey of Consumer Finances. Prior to joining the Federal Reserve Board staff, Sabelhaus was a senior economist at the Investment Company Institute and chief of Long Term Modeling at the Congressional Budget Office, where he oversaw the development of an integrated micro/macro model of Social Security and Medicare. He also served as an adjunct in the Department of Economics at the University of Maryland. Sabelhaus received his Ph.D., M.A., and B.A. in economics from the University of Maryland.
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.
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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.