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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Robert Lynch was a Visiting Scholar at Equitable Growth from 2014 – 2015.
Robert G. Lynch is the Young Ja Lim professor in economics at Washington College, where he has taught since the fall of 1998. From 1983 to 1998, he taught at the State University of New York at Cortland, where he served as chair of the Department of Economics between 1991 and 1993. He also taught at Huanghe University (1985–86) in the People’s Republic of China. His areas of specialization include international economics, public policy, public finance, economic development, and comparative economics. Lynch earned his Ph.D. and master’s degree in economics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and his bachelor of arts degree in international and development economics from Georgetown University.
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 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 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 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 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 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 is the Director of Business and International Taxation at the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
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.
