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AUSTAN GOOLSBEE  is president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. In this capacity, he serves on the Federal Open Market Committee—the Federal Reserve System’s monetary policymaking body—and leads the Chicago Fed, which conducts research and monitors local economic conditions in support of the formulation of monetary policy, supervises and regulates ...

GREG IP is chief economics commentator and deputy economics editor for The Wall Street Journal. He writes about domestic and global economic developments and policy in the weekly Capital Account column. From 2008 to January, 2015, he was United States economics editor for The Economist, based in Washington, D.C. Ip has won or shared in ...

NEIL IRWIN is chief economic correspondent at Axios and lead author of Axios Macro, a daily e-mail newsletter focused on the economy and economic policy. He was previously senior economic correspondent at The New York Times, where he wrote commentary and analysis on the economy. He is the author of The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers ...

MAYA MACGUINEAS is the president of the bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Her areas of expertise include budget, tax, and economic policy. As a leading budget expert for the past twenty years and a political independent, she has worked closely with members of both parties and serves as a trusted resource on Capitol ...

JOHN PODESTA is the Founder and served as Chair for the Washington, D.C.-based think tank Center for American Progress and a Founder and Chair of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Podesta served as Senior Advisor to President Joe Biden and counselor to President Barack Obama, where he was responsible for coordinating the administrations’ climate ...

Wally Adeyemo served as the 15th Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury and chief operating officer of the 100,000 employee Department during the Biden Administration. Adeyemo led Treasury’s national security and economic inequality work, and implemented some of the Department’s top policy priorities. Adeyemo oversaw the Treasury Department’s use of economic tools ...

RAY DALIO, a global macro investor for more than 50 years, founded Bridgewater Associates out of his two-bedroom apartment in NYC and ran it for most of its 50 years, building it into the largest hedge fund in the world under his leadership. Ray remains an investor and mentor at Bridgewater and serves on its ...

MICHAEL R. STRAIN is Director of Economic Policy Studies and Paul F. Oreffice Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute. An economist, Dr. Strain’s research and writing is in a wide range of areas, including labor markets, public finance, social policy, and macroeconomics. He has published over 40 articles in academic and policy ...

ERIK BRYNJOLFSSON is the Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI), and Director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab. He also is the Ralph Landau Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Professor by Courtesy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford Department of Economics, and a ...