KAREN DYNAN is a Professor of the Practice in the Harvard University Department of Economics and at the Harvard Kennedy School. She is also a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the chair of the American Economic Association Committee on Economic Statistics. She previously served as Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy and Chief Economist at the U.S. Department of the Treasury from 2014 to 2017. From 2009 to 2013, Dynan was vice president and co-director of the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution. Before that, she was on the staff of the Federal Reserve Board, leading work in macroeconomic forecasting, household finances, and the Fed’s response to the financial crisis. Dynan has also served as a senior economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers (2003-2004) and as a visiting assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University (1998). Her current research focuses on macroeconomic policy, consumer behavior, and household finances. Dynan received her Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University and her A.B. from Brown University.

DAVID KAMIN is Professor of Law at NYU School of Law. His scholarship focuses on tax and budget policy, and he has published on issues ranging from tax planning to the tax code’s effect on inequality and poverty to the role of budget baselines in the legislative process. Before joining NYU Law in 2012, Kamin worked in President Obama’s administration. There, he served as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and, before that, as Advisor to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget.  In those roles, Kamin helped coordinate administration policy on federal tax and budget issues. Kamin earned a BA in economics and political science with highest honors from Swarthmore College in 2002, and he earned a JD magna cum laude from NYU Law in 2009.

DAVID DEMING is the Isabelle and Scott Black Professor of Political Economy at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Faculty Dean of Kirkland House at Harvard College. He also served as the Academic Dean of HKS from 2021 to 2024. Deming is an economist whose research focuses on higher education, economic inequality, skills, technology, and the future of the labor market. He is a Principal Investigator (along with Raj Chetty and John Friedman) at the CLIMB Initiative, an organization that seeks to study and improve the role of higher education in social mobility. He also leads the Project on Workforce, a cross-Harvard initiative on the future of work. He is co-founder of the Harvard Skills Lab, an organization that creates and tests science-backed measures of “soft” skills like teamwork and decision-making. In 2018 he was awarded the David N. Kershaw Prize for distinguished contributions to the field of public policy and management under the age of 40. In 2022 he won the Sherwin Rosen Prize for outstanding contributions to Labor Economics. His writing appears in The Atlantic and The New York Times as well as on his substack, Forked Lightning.