Economics


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Added 02/08/23 | Location: North Carolina | Subjects: ,

Fenaba Addo is an associate professor of public policy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her research looks at the causes and consequences of debt and wealth inequality in the contexts of higher education, family and relationships.

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Added 12/16/22 | Location: Kansas | Subjects: , ,

Richard Yi is a professor of psychology at the University of Kansas, where he specializes in addiction studies. Yi analyzes the behavioral and economic approaches that lead to decision and behavioral processes in health.

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Added 10/12/22 | Location: New York | Subjects: ,

Lynnise Pantin is the Pritzker Pucker Family Clinical Professor of Transactional Law at Columbia Law School, where she focuses on systematic socioeconomic barriers faced by entrepreneurs of color. Her interests include clinical legal education, entrepreneurship, economic justice, and corporate and business law.

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Added 08/12/22 | Location: Maine | Subjects: , ,

Vaishali Mamgain is the director of the University of Southern Maine’s Bertha Crosley Ball Center for Compassion, a program that offers training on the use of compassion to undo systematic oppression and racism. The center applies neuroscience research that shows long-lasting neural patterns of self-compassion and engagement.

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Added 03/04/22 | Location: South Dakota | Subjects: , ,

Deepthi Kolady is a professor of agricultural economics and at the department of natural resource management in South Dakota State University. She researches the intersection of agriculture, environment and the development of countries.

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Added 01/04/22 | Location: India | Subjects: ,

Anirudh Shingal is an associate professor in economics at the S P Jain Institute of Management and Research in Mumbai, India. He’s spent more than a decade in academia and research, and nearly two decades conducting data and policy analysis of international trade and development issues.

Updated 01/26/23 | Location: Illinois | Subjects:

Christelle Khalaf is the associate director of the Government Finance Research Center at the University of Illinois, Chicago.

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Randall Akee is an associate professor in the Department of Public Policy and American Indian Studies at UCLA.

Added 02/23/21 | Location: Illinois | Subjects: , ,

Anup Malani is an economist who holds professorships at the University of Chicago’s law school and medical school. He also holds research positions at the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics at the University of Southern California and the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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Trevon Logan is a professor of economics and the associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at The Ohio State University.

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Azzeddine Azzam is a professor of agricultural economics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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Una Osili is a professor of philanthropy and economics at Indiana University’s Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. She is also the associate dean of the school’s research and international programs.

Updated 02/21/22 | Location: Washington, D.C. | Subjects: ,

Gita Gopinath is the first Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund. Previously, she was the Fund’s chief economist and a professor of international studies and economics at Harvard University.

Updated 04/20/21 | Location: California | Subjects: , ,

David C. Kang is a professor of international relations, business and East Asian languages and cultures at the University of Southern California. Kang’s research explores questions of economic development, security relations in the region, and the historical basis of contemporary relations.

Updated 12/15/21 | Location: Washington, D.C. | Subjects: ,

Lawrence Yun is the chief economist at the National Association of Realtors (NAR).

Updated 08/18/22 | Location: Washington, D.C. | Subjects: , ,

Ankit Panda is the Stanton Senior Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

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Updated 10/01/21 | Location: California | Subjects:

Luisa Blanco is a professor at Pepperdine University’s School of Public Policy, where she teaches the core course on macroeconomic policy.

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Updated 10/01/21 | Location: Washington, D.C. | Subjects:

Amy Liu is vice president and director of the Metropolitan Policy Program and the Adeline M. and Alfred I. Johnson Chair in Urban and Metropolitan Policy at the Brookings Institution.

Added 09/07/15 | Location: Florida | Subjects: ,

Tony Villamil is founder and principal of the Washington Economics Group (WEG), a Florida-based economic consulting practice. His areas of expertise include the economy of Florida, U.S.

Updated 04/15/21 | Location: California | Subjects:

Sung Won Sohn is a professor of finance and economics at Loyola Marymount University and president of SS Economics, an economic consulting firm.

Updated 04/10/21 | Location: Washington, D.C. | Subjects: ,

Margaret Simms is a nonresident fellow at the Urban Institute. Previously, she was the Institute’s director of the Low-Income Working Families project.

Updated 04/02/21 | Location: California | Subjects: ,

Caroline Hoxby is the Scott and Donya Bommer Professor in Economics at Stanford University.

Updated 12/15/21 | Location: Washington, D.C. | Subjects: ,

Ron Hira is an associate professor of political science at Howard University. He is also a research associate with the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C.

Updated 04/22/21 | Location: Washington, D.C. | Subjects: ,

Adriana Kugler is a professor at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy. Her research interests include labor markets and policy evaluation in developed and developing countries. She studies labor regulations, unemployment and immigration, and has authored articles on public health insurance and the effects of TRAP (Targeted Restrictions on Abortion Providers) laws on women’s employment prospects.

Updated 03/11/20 | Location: Indiana | Subjects:

Humberto Barreto is a professor of economics and management at DePauw University.

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Raj Chetty is the William A. Ackman Professor of Economics at Harvard University and director of Opportunity Insights.

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Manley Begay is a professor in the Applied Indigenous Studies department and the department of politics and international affairs at the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Northern Arizona University.

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George J. Borjas is the Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.

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Farai Chideya is an award-winning author and journalist with more than 20 years of experience combining media, technology and diversity.

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Imara Jones is the creator of TransLash Media, a cross-platform journalism, personal storytelling and narrative project that aims to shift the current culture of hostility toward transgender people in the

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Glenn Loury is the Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences and a professor of economics at Brown University.

Updated 04/17/21 | Location: Washington, D.C. | Subjects: ,

Melissa Bradley is a co-founder of Ureeka, a platform for small-business entrepreneurs to access resources and educational tools.

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William Michael Cunningham is an economist, investment analyst and a strong advocate for crowdfunding.

Updated 04/23/21 | Location: New Jersey | Subjects: ,

William M. Rodgers III is a professor of public policy and chief economist at the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University.

Updated 04/13/21 | Location: Washington, D.C. | Subjects: , ,

Dedrick Asante-Muhammad is the National Community Reinvestment Coalition’s Chief of Race, Wealth and Community.

Updated 12/15/21 | Location: Illinois | Subjects: ,

Amir Sufi is Bruce Lindsay Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic

Updated 04/08/21 | Location: Washington, D.C. | Subjects: ,

Maria Marta Ferreyra (fuh-RAY-ruh) is a senior economist at the Office of the Chief Economist for Latin America and the Caribbean of the World Bank.

Updated 04/06/21 | Location: Washington, D.C. | Subjects: , , ,

Mark Hugo Lopez is the director of global migration and demography research at Pew Research Center.

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Hyepin Im is the founder, president and CEO of Faith and Community Empowerment a nonprofit that works nationally to connect local Korean and Asian-American immigrant communities with the private and public institutions that affect their lives politically and economically.

Updated 01/11/21 | Location: Massachusetts | Subjects: , , ,

Dr. Raynard Kington is the Head of School at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass. Previously, Kington served as the president of Grinnell College from 2010 to 2020.

Updated 12/07/21 | Location: Washington, D.C. | Subjects: ,

Moises Naim is an expert in international politics, economics and business and has written several books, including The End of Power, an examination of how power is changing across all sectors of society, and Illicit, a detailed exposé on modern criminal networks.

Updated 11/17/21 | Location: California | Subjects: , ,

Julianne Malveaux is an economist, commentator, author and academic. She is currently the dean of the College of Ethnic Studies at California State University, Los Angeles.