Gabriel Zucman is associate professor of public policy and economics at the University of California, Berkeley and director of the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Wealth and Income Inequality. He is also Professor of Economics at the Paris School of Economics and the Ecole Normale Supérieure. Since 2015, he has worked as co-director of the World Inequality Lab and World Inequality Database, a database aiming at the provision of access to extensive data series on the world distribution of income and wealth. His research focuses on the accumulation, distribution, and preservation of wealth, in a global and historical perspective. His research papers have been published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Economic Journal, and Journal of Public Economics, among other outlets. He earned his Ph.D. from the Paris School of Economics.