Justine Hastings is VP and chief of people-centered science for Amazon People eXperience and Technology (formerly Human Resources) and an affiliate professor at the University of Washington. Prior, she was a professor of economics at Brown University. She has served as an expert economist for state and federal agencies in matters related to antitrust, energy, and environmental regulation. She holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and a master’s degree in agriculture and resource economics from the University of California, Davis; and she holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.