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Kyle Smith is an M.D. Candidate at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. He holds a B.A. in economics from the University of Rochester.

Jason Cook is an assistant professor of economics in the Division of Quantitative Analysis of Markets and Organizations at the University of Utah. He holds a B.A. in economics from Brigham Young University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Cornell University.

Chloe N. East an associate professor of economics at the University of Colorado Denver. She is on sabbatical AY 2023-2024 and working at the Brookings Institution in the Hamilton Project as a visiting fellow. East holds a B.S. in economics from the University of Texas, Austin and an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Davis.

Carl McPherson is a Ph.D. candidate in economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He holds a B.A. in economics from Williams College.

Alessandro Dell'Acqua is a master's student at Università Bocconi. He holds a BESS degree from Università Bocconi.

Ahmadou Mbaye is a nonresident senior fellow at the Brokings Institution. He is also vice-chancellor of University Cheikh Anta DIOP in Dakar, Senegal and a senior research associate at the Centre for Development Research (ZEF, University of Bonn, Germany). Additionally, he is director of the Laboratoire d’Analyse des Politiques de Developpement. He is also the director of the regional graduate program in climate change economics (including 10 countries). Mbaye holds a master's in economics from UCAD and a Ph.D. in economics from CERDI, University of Auvergne.

Abdoulaye Cisse is a Ph.D. student in agricultural and resource economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He holds a B.A. from Stanford University in economics.

Roberto Pinto is an assistant professor of finance at the Lancaster University Management School. He holds a bachelor's and master's degree from the University of Naples Federico II in economics, as well as a master's in economics and finance, and a Ph.D. in finance from the Vienna Graduate School of Finance.

Alessio Piccolo is an assistant professor of finance at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University Bloomington. He holds a bachelor’s in economics from the University of Naples Federico II, and an M.Phil. and D.Phil. in economics from the University of Oxford.

Sebastian Dyrda is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Toronto. He holds an M.A. in economics from the Warsaw School of Economics, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Minnesota.