Brad W. Setser is the Whitney Shepardson senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). His expertise includes global trade and capital flows, financial vulnerability analysis and sovereign debt restructuring. He regularly blogs at Follow the Money. Setser served as a senior advisor to the United States Trade Representative from 2021 to 2022, where he worked on the resolution of a number of trade disputes. He had previously served as the deputy assistant secretary for international economic analysis in the U.S. Treasury from 2011 to 2015, where he worked on Europe’s financial crisis, currency policy, financial sanctions, commodity shocks, and Puerto Rico’s debt crisis, and as a director for international economics on the staff of the National Economic Council and the National Security Council. He is the author of Sovereign Wealth and Sovereign Power (CFR, 2008) and the coauthor, with Nouriel Roubini, of Bailouts and Bail-ins: Responding to Financial Crises in Emerging Economies (Peterson Institute, 2004). His work has been published in Foreign Affairs, Finance and Development, Global Governance and Georgetown Journal of International Law, among others. Setser was a senior fellow at CFR from 2016 to 2020, a fellow from 2007 to 2009, and an international affairs fellow in 2003. He also has been a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund. He holds a BA from Harvard University, a masters from Sciences-Po Paris, and an MA and PhD in international relations from Oxford University.

BENN STEIL is senior fellow and director of international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. He is also the founding editor of International Finance, a scholarly economics journal; lead writer of the Council’s Geo-Graphics economics blog; and creator of seven web-based interactives tracking Global Monetary Policy, Global Imbalances, Global Growth, Global Trade, Sovereign Risk, China’s Belt and Road, and Central Bank Currency Swaps. He is the author, most recently, of The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War, the New-York Historical Society’s 2019 book of the year, and The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order. Forthcoming is a political biography entitled The World That Wasn’t: Henry Wallace and the Trials of American Globalism.

BENJAMIN F. JONES is the Gordon and Llura Gund Family Professor of Entrepreneurship, a Professor of Strategy, and the faculty director of the Kellogg Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative. An economist by training, Professor Jones studies the sources of economic growth in advanced economies, with an emphasis on innovation, entrepreneurship, and scientific progress.  He also studies global economic development, including the roles of education, climate, and national leadership in explaining the wealth and poverty of nations.  His research has appeared in journals such as Science, the Quarterly Journal of Economics and the American Economic Review, and has been profiled in media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, and The New Yorker. A former Rhodes Scholar, Professor Jones served in 2010-2011 as the senior economist for macroeconomics for the White House Council of Economic Advisers and earlier served in the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Professor Jones is a non-resident senior fellow of the Brookings Institution, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

ANN HUFF STEVENS is Deputy Director of the Center for Poverty Research and Professor of Economics at UC Davis. She studies low income workers and labor markets, the incidence and effects of job loss, connections between economic shocks and health, and poverty and safety-net dynamics. Her current work examines returns to vocational education programs, the dynamics of EITC eligibility, and long-term effects of labor force non-participation. Stevens previously served on the faculty at Rutgers and Yale Universities and is a faculty research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research. At UC Davis, Stevens has served as Chair of the Department of Economics and Interim Dean of the Graduate School of Management. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and has served as a principal investigator on grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the National Science Foundation and other agencies.

Hanming Fang is the Joseph M. Cohen Term Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. He is an elected Fellow of Econometric Society. His main research areas are public economics, labor economics and the Chinese economy. His research on health insurance market received the Kenneth Arrow Award for the best health economics research from the International Health Economics Association in 2010. He is an expert on the Chinese housing market, health care, population aging and political economy. He is a co-founder of VoxChina – a non-profit web platform that provides research-based analysis of the Chinese economy. He is a Research Associate of National Bureau of Economic Research (USA) and served as its Acting Director of the Chinese Economy Working Group (2014-2016). He has published widely in top journals in economics and served as a co-editor for Journal of Public Economics and International Economic Review, and served on the editorial board for several other journals, including the top economics journal, American Economic Review. Fang served on the faculty at Yale University and Duke University before joining Penn in 2009.

CRAIG GARTHWAITE is the Herman R. Smith Research Professor in Hospital and Health Service, an Associate Professor of Strategy, and the Director of the Program on Healthcare at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He is an applied microeconomist whose research examines the healthcare and biopharmaceutical sectors. His recent work focuses on questions related to social insurance programs and their effect on private firms and the provider market. Professor Garthwaite also studies questions of pricing and innovation in the biopharmaceutical sector. His research has appeared in journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the American Economic Review and the New England Journal of Medicine and has been profiled in media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and Vox. He has also appeared as a guest on various television and radio shows such as Nightly Business Report and NPR Marketplace. Garthwaite received a B.A. and a Masters in Public Policy from the University of Michigan and his PhD in Economics from the University of Maryland. He has testified before the United States Senate and House of Representatives on matters related to competition in healthcare markets and pharmaceutical pricing.