NANCY L. ROSE is the Head of the Department of Economics and Charles P. Kindleberger Professor of Applied Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where her teaching and research focus on industrial organization, competition policy, and the economics of regulation. She served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economic Analysis in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice from 2014 – 2016, and directed the National Bureau of Economic Research program in Industrial Organization from its creation in 1991 until her appointment to the Department of Justice. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Distinguished Fellow of the Industrial Organization Society. Her research includes analyses of economic regulation and firm behavior, labor rent-sharing and determinants of executive pay, and merger policy. Professor Rose received her Ph.D. in Economics from MIT and an A.B. in Economics and Government from Harvard University. Her accomplishments have been recognized by numerous fellowships over her career, including those from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Hoover Institution, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and National Science Foundation. Her professional service includes membership on the American Antitrust Institute Advisory Board, terms as Vice President and Executive Committee member of the American Economic Association (AEA), and independent directorships on both public and nonprofit boards.

THOMAS PHILIPPON is the Max L. Heine Professor of Finance at New York University, Stern School of Business. Philippon was named one of the “top 25 economists under 45” by the IMF in 2014. He won the 2013 Bernácer Prize for Best European Economist under 40, the 2010 Michael Brennan & BlackRock Award, the 2009 Prize for Best Young French Economist, and the 2008 Brattle Prize for the best paper in Corporate Finance. He is an academic advisor to the Financial Stability Board and the Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research. He was an advisor to the New York Federal Reserve Board and a board member of the French prudential regulatory authority from 2014 to 2019, and the senior economic advisor to the French finance minister in 2012-2013. Philippon graduated from Ecole Polytechnique, received a PhD in Economics from MIT and joined New York University in 2003.

RYAN KELLOGG is a professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and Deputy Dean for Academic Programs. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau for Economic Research. Ryan’s research bridges industrial organization, energy economics, and environmental policy, examining topics such as the response of investment to uncertainty, the economic consequences of the shale boom, the economics of oil and gas leasing, the effectiveness of policies to reduce emissions from the transportation sector, and the economics of carbon regulation when the economic environment is uncertain.

Ryan earned a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2008. Prior to his graduate studies, he worked for BP in Houston, TX, and Anchorage, AK, for four years as an engineer and economic analyst. Ryan earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and a B.A. in Economics from Rice University in 1999. He grew up outside of Cleveland, OH.

SEVERIN BORENSTEIN is E.T. Grether Professor of Business Administration and Public Policy at the Haas School of Business and Faculty Director of the Energy Institute at Haas.  He is also Director emeritus of the University of California Energy Institute (1994-2014).   He received his A.B. from U.C. Berkeley and Ph.D. in Economics from M.I.T.  His research focuses on business competition, strategy, and regulation.  He has published extensively on the airline industry, the oil and gasoline industries, and electricity markets.  His current research projects include the economics of renewable energy, economic policies for reducing greenhouse gases, alternative models of retail electricity pricing, and competitive dynamics in the airline industry.  Borenstein is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, MA. He served on the Board of Governors of the California Power Exchange from 1997 to 2003. During 1999-2000, he was a member of the California Attorney General’s Gasoline Price Task Force.  In 2010-11, Borenstein was a member of U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood’s Future of Aviation Advisory Committee.  In 2012-13, he served on the Emissions Market Assessment Committee, which advised the California Air Resources Board on the operation of California’s Cap and Trade market for greenhouse gases.  In 2014, he was appointed to the California Energy Commission’s Petroleum Market Advisory Committee, which he chaired from 2015 until the Committee was dissolved in 2017.  From 2015-2020, he served on the Advisory Council of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District. In 2019, he was appointed to the Governing Board of the California Independent System Operator.

Sarah Reber holds the Cabot Family Chair and is a senior fellow in Economic Studies at Brookings. Her research focuses on college access, elementary and secondary education finance policy, and school desegregation. She is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a California Policy Lab (CPL) affiliated expert. Previously, she was Associate Professor of Public Policy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research at UC Berkeley, and a Research Assistant and Staff Economist on the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA).

NORA GORDON is a Professor at the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy. She is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Non-Resident Fellow of the Urban Institute, and a member of the FutureEd Advisory Board. She is an Associate Editor of Education Finance and Policy and the Journal of Human Resources. Dr. Gordon is the co-author of Common-Sense Evidence: The Education Leader’s Guide to Using Data and Research (Harvard Education Press, 2020). She studies American education policy, with an emphasis on equity, the federal role in elementary and secondary education, and the use of evidence in policy and practice. Dr. Gordon has testified before Senate and House committees on implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act. She has served on the Institute of Education Sciences Expert Panel on the Study of the Title I Formula and DC’s state Title I Committee of Practitioners, and currently serves on the Professional Advisory Board of the National Center for Learning Disabilities.

TILL VON WACHTER is Professor of Economics at the University of California Los Angeles, Faculty Director of the California Policy Lab, Director of the Federal Statistical Research Data Center, and Associate Dean for Research for the Social Science Division. Prof. von Wachter’s research examines how labor market conditions and institutions affect the well-being of workers and their families. This includes the analysis of unemployment and job loss on workers’ long-term earnings and health outcomes, as well as the role of unemployment insurance and disability insurance in buffering such shocks. Current research projects focus on job and earnings mobility of young workers over their careers, the effects of minimum wages, as well as several projects on homelessness using administrative data from Los Angeles. Professor von Wachter’s research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Institute on Aging, the Social Security Administration, the Sloan Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Hilton Foundation, and Arnold Ventures. Prof. von Wachter has been an expert witness in numerous testimonies before committees of U.S. Congress, and has provided expert assistance to the City and County of Los Angeles, the U.S. Department of Labor, the Canadian Labor Ministry, the OECD, the United Nations, and the IMF.