DAVID AUTOR is Ford Professor in the MIT Department of Economics, codirector of the NBER Labor Studies Program, and coleader of both the MIT Work of the Future Task Force and the JPAL Work of the Future experimental initiative. His scholarship explores the labor-market impacts of technological change and globalization on job polarization, skill demands, earnings levels and inequality, and electoral outcomes. Autor has received numerous awards for both his scholarship—the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, the Sherwin Rosen Prize for outstanding contributions to the field of Labor Economics, and the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship just last year—and for his teaching, including the MIT MacVicar Faculty Fellowship. In 2017, Autor was recognized by Bloomberg as one of the 50 people who defined global business. In a 2019 article, the Economist magazine labeled him as “The academic voice of the American worker.” Later that same year, and with (at least) equal justification, he was christened “Twerpy MIT Economist” by John Oliver of Last Week Tonight in a segment on automation and employment.

DAN SILVERMAN is the Rondthaler Professor of Economics at Arizona State University. Prof. Silverman studies public economics and has pioneered the use of financial aggregator data for economics research. Often linking these administrative data to traditional surveys, his work has contributed to how economists think about and measure the quality of decision-making, and his study of economic rationality won the Schmölders Prize in 2016. Prof. Silverman has studied several questions related to social insurance and his analysis of advantageous selection in the Medigap insurance market received the 2009 iHEA Arrow award for the best paper in health economics. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and co-editor of the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. Prior to becoming an economist, Prof. Silverman led outreach programs for a Community Development Credit Union serving low-income communities in Newark, NJ. Prof. Silverman received a B.A. in political science from Williams College, a M.A. in Public Policy from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Christopher Ong is a predoctoral fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School. His research explores the intersections of globalization, technological innovation, and economic policy. Previously, he contributed to the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences within the Teamcore group, where he focused on developing AI applications for social impact. He also worked as a software engineering intern at Microsoft. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Harvard University.

CHAD SYVERSON is the Eli B. and Harriet B. Williams Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He has been on the University of Chicago faculty since 2001. His research spans several topics, with a particular focus on the interactions of firm structure, market structure, and productivity. He has authored or coauthored dozens of scholarly articles and is the coauthor (with Austan Goolsbee and Steve Levitt) of intermediate-level textbook, Microeconomics. Syverson is an editor of the Rand Journal of Economics, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and has served on multiple National Academies committees. Syverson earned two bachelor’s degrees from the University of North Dakota in 1996, one in economics and one in mechanical engineering. After a brief stint working as a mechanical engineer for Unisys Corporation and Loral Defense Systems, he went on to earn a PhD in economics from the University of Maryland in 2001.

CHAD P. BOWN is Reginald Jones Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, DC. With Soumaya Keynes, he cohosts Trade Talks, a podcast on the economics of international trade policy. Bown previously served as senior economist for international trade and investment in the White House on the Council of Economic Advisers and most recently as a lead economist at the World Bank. He was a tenured professor of economics at Brandeis University, where he held a joint appointment in the Department of Economics and International Business School for 12 years. He has also spent a year in residence as a visiting scholar in economic research at the World Trade Organization (WTO) Secretariat in Geneva. Bown is also currently a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. His work has been published in Foreign Affairs, The Atlantic, Wall Street Journal, and Financial Times, as well as in academic journals such as American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Literature, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of International Economics, and Journal of Development Economics. Bown is author of the book Self-Enforcing Trade: Developing Countries and WTO Dispute Settlement (Brookings Institution Press, 2009), and coeditor, with Joost Pauwelyn, of The Law, Economics, and Politics of Retaliation in WTO Dispute Settlement (Cambridge University Press, 2010). His volume on the global economic crisis, The Great Recession and Import Protection: The Role of Temporary Trade Barriers (CEPR and World Bank, 2011), was built from a trade policy transparency project that he initiated at the World Bank in 2004. Bown received a BA magna cum laude in economics and international relations from Bucknell University and a PhD in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

BRUCE SACERDOTE is the Richard S. Braddock 1963 Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a co-Director for the Jameel Poverty Action Lab’s State and Local Initiative. His current work focuses on the economics of education with an emphasis on helping young adults attend, persist, and graduate from college. He is a principal investigator on a set of experiments designed to encourage more high school seniors to apply to and attend college. A second set of experiments is aimed at helping community college students succeed and graduate. In related work he and coauthors are investigating the long run impacts for Veterans who receive the Post 9/11 GI Bill. All of Sacerdote’s projects include a large and hardworking set of undergraduate research assistants, Presidential Scholars and co-authors. Current projects employ twelve different undergraduates including one full time project manager and another who is the first author on the study. Sacerdote teaches a senior seminar in finance. One course highlight are the frequent and lively guest lectures from dedicated Dartmouth alumni who are working in varied aspects of finance. His work has been published in (among other places) American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Economic Journal, and the Review of Economics and Statistics. And it has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and National Public Radio. Bruce and his wife Michele live in Hanover with their three children Leo, Sam, Sofia (11,15, 20).

Jennifer Doleac is an economist and the Executive Vice President of Criminal Justice at Arnold Ventures. She is also the host of the Probable Causation podcast. Before joining Arnold Ventures, Dr. Doleac spent over a decade as an economics professor, working on academic research on crime and discrimination. Dr. Doleac is a leading expert on the economics of crime and a vocal proponent of using rigorous research to inform policy. Her research addresses topics such as DNA databases, prosecutorial reform, risk assessment algorithms, and the unintended consequences of “ban the box” policies. Dr. Doleac’s work has been supported by several governmental and philanthropic organizations, and her research has been published in leading academic journals including the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Review of Economics and Statistics, and the Journal of Labor Economics. She currently serves on the board of editors at the Journal of Economic Literature and is frequently quoted in the media about criminal justice research and policy. Dr. Doleac holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University, and a B.A. in Economics and Mathematics from Williams College. She lives in Houston, TX, with her rescue pup, Chula.

Zachary Liscow is Professor of Law at Yale Law School. His wide-ranging work in law and economics currently covers tax policy, benefit-cost analysis, and infrastructure construction costs. He is particularly interested in developing cost-effective policies to address inequality and understanding what drives the high costs of building U.S. infrastructure. He has also worked in a variety of other areas, including environmental policy and empirical legal studies. Professor Liscow’s work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Atlantic, Bloomberg, CNN, and elsewhere. Liscow earned his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and his J.D. from Yale Law School. He graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College with degrees in Economics and in Environmental Science and Public Policy. He grew up in South Haven, Michigan. In 2022–23, he was the Chief Economist at the Office of Management and Budget at the White House, and in 2009–2010, he was a Staff Economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers. He also worked for the World Bank’s inspector general. Professor Liscow clerked for the Honorable Stephen F. Williams on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.