JAMES P. ZILIAK holds the Carol Martin Gatton Endowed Chair in Microeconomics in the Department of Economics at the University of Kentucky, where he is Founding Director of the Center for Poverty Research and the Kentucky Federal Statistical Research Data Center. He received BS and BA degrees in economics and sociology from Purdue University, and his Ph.D. in Economics from Indiana University. He previously served as assistant and associate professor of economics at the University of Oregon, and has held visiting positions at the Brookings Institution, Russell Sage Foundation, University College London, University of Michigan, and University of Wisconsin. His research expertise is in the areas of labor economics, poverty, food insecurity, and tax and transfer policy. He has published widely in leading economics journals and has edited several volumes, including Welfare Reform and its Long Term Consequences for America’s Poor (Cambridge University Press 2009), Appalachian Legacy: Economic Opportunity after the War on Poverty (Brookings Institution Press 2012), and SNAP Matters: How Food Stamps Affect Health and Well Being (Stanford University Press, 2015). He served as Chair of the National Academies of Science Workshop on Research Gaps and Opportunities on the Causes and Consequences of Child Hunger, and as a member of the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on Examination of the Adequacy of Food Resources and SNAP Allotments.

KEITH HENNESSEY teaches Stanford MBA students about economic policy, American civics and the policy-making process. He also serves as the David Rubenstein Fellow at the George W. Bush Institute. He previously served as director of the National Economic Council for President George W. Bush.

JOSHUA S. GOODMAN, Associate Professor of Public Policy, is an applied microeconomist studying human capital and education policy. His work has two major strands, exploring the determinants and long-run impacts of both college choice and math coursework. His work has been published in outlets such as the Journal of Labor Economics, AEJ: Applied Economics, the Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of Human Resources and the Journal of Economic Perspectives. It has also been cited in multiple White House reports and featured in the New York Times and the Washington Post, and on National Public Radio. He is a research fellow of NBER and CESifo; is affiliated with Harvard’s Program in Education Policy and Governance, Inequality and Social Policy Group, and Center for Education Policy and Research; and serves on the advisory boards of the Committee for Economic Development and the Moving to Opportunity Fund. Goodman received a B.A. in physics from Harvard University, an M.Phil. in education from Cambridge University, and a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University. Prior to his Ph.D. studies, he was a public high school math teacher in Watertown, MA.

PROFESSOR ROBERT LERMAN conducts research and publishes on employment, income support, and youth development, especially as they affect low-income populations. In the 1970s, he worked on reforming the nation’s income maintenance programs and on youth employment policies as staff economist for both the Congressional Joint Economic Committee and the U.S. Department of Labor. He was one of the first scholars to examine the patterns and economic determinants of unwed fatherhood and to propose a youth apprenticeship strategy in the U.S. He is currently an Institute Fellow at Urban Institute and a Research Associate at IZA in Bonn, Germany. Dr. Lerman is current serving as the President of the Society of Government Economists.

LILY BATCHELDER is the Robert C. Kopple Family Professor of Law at NYU School of Law and an affiliated professor at the NYU Wagner School of Public Service. Previously she served as Deputy Director of the White House National Economic Council and Deputy Assistant to the President under President Obama (2014-2015), and Majority Chief Tax Counsel for the US Senate Committee on Finance (2010-2014). Batchelder’s scholarship and teaching focus on personal income taxes, business tax reform, wealth transfer taxes, retirement savings policy, and social insurance. She is on the board of Tax Analysts and the National Tax Association. Before joining NYU in 2005, Batchelder was an associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, director of community affairs for a New York state senator, and a client advocate for a social services organization in Ocean Hill-Brownsville, Brooklyn. She holds an AB from Stanford University, an MPP from the Harvard Kennedy School, and a JD from Yale Law School.

MAGNE MOGSTAD is the Gary S. Becker Professor in Economics and the College in the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics at the University of Chicago, as well as the Director of the Ronzetti Initiative for the Study of Labor Markets at the Becker Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago. Magne has published extensively in leading scholarly journals. He is a current co-editor of the Journal of Political Economy, and he previously served as a co-editor of the Journal of Public Economics and a foreign editor of the Review of Economic Studies. He is a recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, the 2017 IZA Young Labor Economist Award, and the 2020 Sherwin Rosen Prize for outstanding contributions in the field of labor economics.

JOHN VAN REENEN has been the Gordon Billard Professor of Management and Economics at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology (jointly in the MIT Economics Department and Sloan Management School) since 2016. Prior to this, he was Director of the Centre of Economic Performance and Professor at the London School of Economics. He has published over a hundred papers with a particular focus on firm performance and the causes and consequences of innovation. He was the 2009 winner of the Yrjö Jahnsson Award (the European equivalent of the Clark Medal). He is a fellow of the British Academy and the Econometric Society and in 2017, was awarded an OBE for “services to public policy and economics” by the Queen. He has been a senior policy advisor to 10 Downing Street, the UK Secretary of State for Health and the European Commission. He received his BA from the University of Cambridge, his MSc from the London School of Economics and his PhD from University College London.

WILLIAM G. GALE is the Arjay and Frances Miller Chair in Federal Economic Policy in the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution. His research focuses on tax policy, fiscal policy, pensions and saving behavior. He is co-director of the Tax Policy Center, a joint venture of the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute. He is also director of the Retirement Security Project. From 2006 to 2009, he served as vice president of Brookings Institution and director of the Economic Studies Program. Gale is the author of Fiscal Therapy: Curing America’s Debt Addiction and Investing in the Future (Oxford University Press, 2019). He earned a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University and an A.B. from Duke University and attended the London School of Economics as an undergraduate.