Our Team

We are united in our passion to understand how to improve economic opportunities for all Americans.

Leadership
Raj Chetty
Director, Professor of Economics, Harvard University
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Nathaniel Hendren
Co-Director, Professor of Economics, Harvard University
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John Friedman
Co-Director, Professor of Economics, Brown University
Bio
Sarah Oppenheimer
Executive Director
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Winnie van Dijk
Research Principal, Assistant Professor of Economics, Harvard University
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Michael Stepner
Research Principal, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Toronto
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Research & Policy Staff
Matt Bell
Project Manager
Zachary Bleemer
Postdoctoral Fellow
Abby Hiller
Research Translation Manager
Jared Miller
Data Scientist
Matthew Staiger
Research Scientist
Administrative Staff
Westley Cineus
Assistant Director of Research Administration
Ilise Hamilton
Executive Assistant to John Friedman
Caitlin Kupsc
Finance Associate
Trina Ott
Operations Coordinator
Danny Pantry
Executive Assistant to Raj Chetty
Liz Thach
Executive Assistant to Nathaniel Hendren
Samantha Webb
Assistant Director of Administration
Opportunity Insights Predoctoral Fellows
Camille Baker
Harvey Barnhard
Dhruv Gaur
Armelle Grondin
Sebastian Puerta
Tom Rutter
Ana Sanchez Chico
Clare Suter
Nicolaj Thor
Opportunity Insights Network Predoctoral Fellows
Isabel Almazan
Harvard University
Jamie Emery
Policy Impacts
Jack Kelly
Policy Impacts
Lucía Lamas
NBER
Florian Mudekereza
New York University
Raghav Saraogi
Stanford University
Blake Woods
Chicago Booth
Graduate Student Affiliates
Fiona Chen
Sahil Chinoy
Harris Eppsteiner
Robert Fluegge
Benny Goldman
Federico Gonzalez
Jamie Gracie
Matthew Jacob
Drew Johnston
Joachim Kahr Rasmussen
Martin Koenen
Omeed Maghzian
Namrata Narain
Kadeem Noray
Chika Okafor
Suproteem Sarkar
Emanuel Schertz
Claire Shi
Ben Sprung-Keyser
James Stratton
Jennifer Walsh
Alice Wu
Ruby Zhang
Research Collaborators
Trent Alexander
Associate Director of ICSPR, University of Michigan
Isaiah Andrews
Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Peter Bergman
Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Texas at Austin
Gregory Bruich
Lecturer/Adviser in Economics, Harvard University
Kyle Coombs
Professor of Economics, Columbia University
David Cutler
Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Stefanie DeLuca
James Coleman Professor of Sociology & Social Policy, Johns Hopkins University
David Deming
Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Rebecca Diamond
Professor of Economics, Stanford University
Will Dobbie
Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Arindrajit Dube
Professor of Economics, UMass Amherst
Katie Genadek
Economist, United States Census Bureau
Claudia Goldin
Professor of Economics, Harvard University
David Grusky
Professor of Sociology, Stanford University
Matthew Jackson
Professor of Economics. Stanford University
Calvin Jahnke
Research Associate, Harvard Business School
Xavier Jaravel
Assistant Professor of Economics, London School of Economics
Maggie R. Jones
Economist, United States Census Bureau
Lawrence Katz
Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Ray Kleunder
Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Patrick Kline
Associate Professor of Economics, UC-Berkeley
Theresa Kuchler
Associate Professor of Finance, New York University
Robert Manduca
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan
Suresh Naidu
Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs and Economics, Columbia University
Christopher J. Palmer
Assistant Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management
Neviana Petkova
Financial Economist, Office of Tax Analysis
Sonya R. Porter
Economist, United States Census Bureau
Emmanuel Saez
Professor of Economics, UC-Berkeley
Johannes Stroebel
Professor of Finance, New York University
Laura Tach
Professor of Sociology. Cornell University
Nicholas Turner
Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Board
John van Reenen
Professor of Applied Economics, MIT
Danny Yagan
Assistant Professor of Economics, UC-Berkeley
Crystal Yang
Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Owen Zidar
Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University
Eric Zwick
Associate Professor of Finance, Chicago Booth
Alumni
With Initial Position After Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
Advisory Board
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