Jimmy Narang is a graduate student in economics at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include economic development, behavioral economics, ethics, and social networks. Narang is an alumni of The Equality of Opportunity Project and previously worked as a research assistant at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. He received his B.Tech in Computer Science from International Institute of Information Technology in Hyderabad, India, in 2008.
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Jeffrey Thompson
Jeffrey P. Thompson is a vice president and economist in the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Research Department, where he is the director of the New England Public Policy Center. Prior to joining the Boston Fed, Thompson was a principal economist at the Federal Reserve Board and a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Political Economy Research Institute. He specializes in public and labor economics, household finance, applied microeconomics, income, wealth and consumption inequality, state and local taxes, and regional economics. Thompson earned his Ph.D. in economics from Syracuse University.
Jeff Larrimore
Jeff Larrimore is the section chief for the Consumer and Community Research Section at the Federal Reserve Board. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Cornell University and his B.A. in economics and political science from Davidson College.
Jae Song
Jae Song is an economist with the Office of Disability Adjudication and Review at the Social Security Administration. Song received his Ph.D. in economics from the State University of New York at Albany.
Iris Marechal
Iris Maréchal was a Fall intern at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth in 2017 and is a French exchange student at the Johns Hopkins University within the Aitchison Fellowship Program.
Greg Leiserson
Greg Leiserson is a senior economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers. Previously, he was the director of tax policy and chief economist at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. He holds a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.A. from Swarthmore College.
Gene Kimmelman
Gene Kimmelman is senior counselor to the associate attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice. He is a graduate of Brown University and holds a J.D. from the University of Virginia.
Giovanni Peri
Giovanni Peri is Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics at the University of California, Davis and Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is Editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association and in the Editorial Board of several Academic Journals in Economics. He is the Founder and Director of the UC Davis Migration Research Cluster. His Research focuses on the impact of international migrations on labor markets and productivity of the receiving countries and on the determinants of international migrations.
Gavin Kelly
Gavin Kelly is a leading media commentator on economics and public policy, writing for The Guardian, Financial Times, and other outlets, as well as being a regular blogger for the New Statesman. He covers a wide range of issues spanning economic policy, low pay, welfare reform, public services, and social mobility. Kelly is executive chair of the Resolution Foundation and chief executive of the Resolution Trust. Previously he was chief executive of Resolution Foundation. He joined the foundation from No. 10 Downing Street, where he worked as deputy chief of staff. He spent more than a decade in Whitehall and was a member of the Council of Economic Advisors at HMT, the senior advisor to the secretary of state at the Department for Education and the Department for Communities and Local Government, deputy head of the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, and a member of the No. 10 Policy Unit. Before working in government, he taught economics and politics at the University of Sheffield, where he received his doctorate.
Gabriel Matthews
Gabriel L. Matthews is a TA consultant at the American Institutes for Research. He was previously Equitable Growth’s Grants & Finance Assistant. He graduated from Brooklyn College and received a B.A. in political science with a concentration on philosophy.