James Joseph Heckman is a Nobel Prize-winning American economist at the University of Chicago,where he is The Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College;Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy;Director of the Center for the Economics of Human Development (CEHD);and Co-Director of Human Capital and Economic Opportunity (HCEO) Global Working Group. He is also Professor of Law at the Law School,a senior research fellow at the American Bar Foundation,and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. In 2000,Heckman shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Daniel McFadden,for his pioneering work in econometrics and microeconomics. As of December 2020,according to RePEc,he is the second-most influential economist in the world.
TheHoover Institution, officially TheHoover Institution on War,Revolution,and Peace,is an American public policy think tank and research institution that promotes personal and economic liberty,free enterprise,and limited government. While the institution is formally a unit of Stanford University,it maintains an independent board of overseers and relies on its own income and donations. It is widely described as a conservative institution,although its directors have contested the idea that it is partisan.
James Bradford "Brad" DeLong is an economic historian who is a professor of economics at the University of California,Berkeley. DeLong served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury in the Clinton Administration under Lawrence Summers.
The American Economic Association (AEA) is a learned society in the field of economics. It publishes several peer-reviewed journals acknowledged in business and academia. There are some 23,000 members.
Lawrence Berle Krause is an American economist.
Marina von Neumann Whitman is an American economist,writer and former automobile executive. She is a professor of business administration and public policy at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business as well as The Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.
Ted Gayer is an American economist and the president of the Niskanen Center. He is formerly the executive vice president of the Brookings Institution,where he also once served as the vice president and director of the Economic Studies Program and the Joseph A. Pechman Senior Fellow. On June 12,2022,Gayer was appointed acting president of the Brookings Institution following the resignation of John R. Allen that same day.
Claudia Goldin is an American economic historian and labor economist who is currently the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University. She is a co-director of the NBER's Gender in the Economy Study Group and was the director of the NBER’s Development of the American Economy program from 1989 to 2017. Goldin's research covers a wide range of topics,including the female labor force,the gender gap in earnings,income inequality,technological change,education,and immigration. Most of her research interprets the present through the lens of the past and explores the origins of current issues of concern. Her recently completed book Career &Family:Women's Century-Long Journey toward Equity was released on October 5,2021.
Robert Zachary Lawrence,a former South African national,is the Albert L. Williams Professor of International Trade and Investment at John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is also a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics,and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Johannes F. Linn is executive director of the Wolfensohn Center for Development and senior fellow of the Global Economy and Development program at the Brookings Institution.
Jason Furman is an American economist and professor at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and a Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. On June 10,2013,Furman was named by President Barack Obama as chair of the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA). Furman has also served as the Deputy Director of the U.S. National Economic Council,which followed his role as an advisor for the Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign.
George L. Perry is an American economist,currently a Senior Fellow emeritus at the Brookings Institution. In 1970,he and Arthur Okun founded the Brookings Panel and its journal,the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (BPEA). They conceived the Panel as a way to apply rigorous economic research to current economic puzzles,problems and policy issues. After Okun's death in 1980,William Brainard replaced him and Brainard and Perry ran the Panel and edited BPEA until 2007.
Arvind Panagariya is an Indian-American economist who is the Jagdish Bhagwati Professor of Indian Political Economy at Columbia University and is also the Director of Deepak and Neera Raj Center on Indian Economic Policies at School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University in New York City. He served as first vice-chairman of the government of India think-tank NITI Aayog between January 2015 and August 2017. He is a former Chief Economist of the Asian Development Bank. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the President of India in 2012 for his contributions in the field of economics and Public Policy.
Douglas William Elmendorf is an American economist who is the dean and Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. He previously served as the Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) from 2009 to 2015. He was a Brookings Institution senior fellow from 2007 to 2009,and briefly in 2015 following his time at the CBO,and was a director of the Hamilton Project at Brookings.
Carlos A. Végh is a Uruguayan academic economist who,since 2013,is the Fred H. Sanderson Professor of International Economics at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS),and holds a joint appointment with Johns Hopkins' Department of Economics. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research since 1998. He was the World Bank Chief Economist for Latin America and the Caribbean from February 1,2017 to June 30,2019,while on leave from Johns Hopkins. He was previously a Professor of Economics and Vice-Chair of Undergraduate Studies at UCLA (1996-2005) and Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland (2005-2013). His research work on monetary and fiscal policy in emerging and developing countries has been highly influential in both academic and policy circles. In particular,his work on fiscal procyclicality in emerging markets has been instrumental in generating a copious literature on the subject,which has influenced the adoption of fiscal rules in many emerging markets.
Henry Jacob Aaron is an American policy analyst and economist. He is the Bruce and Virginia MacLaury Senior Fellow in the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution,where he has been employed since 1968. He served as director of the program from 1990 through 1996.
Robert Eisner was an American author and William R. Kenan professor of economics at Northwestern University. He was recognized throughout the United States for his expertise and knowledge of macroeconomics and the economics of business cycles. He was a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal,The New York Times,Chicago Tribune,and The Los Angeles Times,primarily covering national economic policy and reform.
Betsey Ayer Stevenson is an economist and Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Michigan Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Additionally,she is a fellow of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research in Munich,a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and servers on the board of the American Economic Association. The Obama Administration announced her appointment as a Member of the Council of Economic Advisers,a post she served from 2013 through 2015. She previously served as Chief Economist of the U.S. Department of Labor under Secretary Hilda Solis from 2010 to 2011. Previously,she was an Assistant Professor of Business and Public Policy,at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Rashi Fein was an American health economist termed "a father of Medicare" in the United States and "an architect of Medicare," was Professor of Economics of Medicine,Emeritus,in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School,and the author of the book Medical Care,Medical Costs:The Search for a Health Insurance Policy.
Karen Dynan is an American economist who is Professor of the Practice of Economics at Harvard University and a Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. She previously served as the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and Chief Economist of the United States Department of the Treasury,having been nominated to that position by President Barack Obama in August 2013 and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in June 2014. From 2009 to 2013,Dr. Dynan was the Vice President and Co-director of the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution. Prior to joining Brookings,she served on the staff of the Federal Reserve Board for 17 years. Dr. Dynan is an expert on macroeconomic policy,consumer behavior,household finance,and housing policy.
